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Quotes About Play

Then he noticed her boys. They were standing side by side at the edge of the driveway, their plastic guns still in their hands and their faces pale and forlorn beneath the toy helmets, his own Tony, God bless him, with a comforting arm around each.
~ Alice McDermott
Gradually, she realizes how she is forced to look for distraction when she is moved, upset, or sad. (When a six-year-old's mother died, his aunt told him: "You must be brave; don't cry; now go to your room and play nicely")
~ Alice Miller
Susie? Yes? Just have fun, kid.
~ Alice Sebold
Kuinka tehdään täydellinen murha oli taivaassa vanha leikki. Minä valitsin aina aseeksi jääpuikon: se sulaa olemattomiin.
~ Alice Sebold
but the often observed increased involvement of fathers in the toddler years may be linked to findings that fathers as a group are more likely than mothers to promote the adventurous exploration and challenging play that toddlers are now ready to join.
~ Alicia F. Lieberman
Toddlers turn everything from blocks to shoes to bowls of cereal into means of transportation by the simple expedient of saying "brrmbrrm" and pushing them along the floor.
~ Alison Gopnik
This means that if boys and girls grew up on a deserted island with no organised society or parents to guide them, girls would still cuddle, touch, make friends and play with dolls, while boys would compete mentally and physically with each other and form groups with a clear hierarchy.
~ Allan Pease - Barbara Pease
Place a small child in a crib with a rabbit and an apple. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car." Harvey Diamond, co-author Fit For Life
~ Allen Carr
But you love to play the good man, don't you? Do you know what's worse than a villain? A villain who thinks he's a hero. A man like that, there's nothing he won't do, and he'll always find himself an excuse.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
~ Joe E. Lewis
As a school nurse, she had always modeled herself on Mary Poppins, aiming for an air of good-tempered calm, self-assurance, a tolerance for play, but an expectation that the medicine would go down along with the spoonful of sugar. If the kids thought it was possible she might break into song and shoot fireworks from the tip of her umbrella, that was all right with her. Such
~ Joe Hill
Susannah had a toy stethoscope, which she would press to his head, in an attempt to listen in on his thoughts.
~ Joe Hill
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made up games: Wild West Accountants! in which they would calculate the loss of a shipment of gold stolen from an imaginary stagecoach, or Recently Divorced Scientists! in which they would build a super-collider out of garbage to try and win back their recently lost loves.
~ Joe Meno
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
~ Joe Montana
Childhood is that wonderful time when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.
~ Joe Moore
Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc., to unfold in full richness.
~ Johan Huizinga
The outlaw, the revolutionary, the cabbalist or member of a secret society, indeed heretics of all kinds are of a highly associative if not sociable disposition, and a certain element of play is prominent in all their doings.
~ Johan Huizinga
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods, and defend himself against his enemies, and win in the contest". Thus
~ Johan Huizinga
real civilization cannot exist in the absence of a certain play-element, for civilization presupposes limitation and mastery of the self, the ability not to confuse its own tendencies with the ultimate and highest goal, but to understand that it is enclosed within certain bounds freely accepted.
~ Johan Huizinga
Ço­ cuklar?n etrafta ko?turmaya dönük do?al arzular?n?n önüne geçildi?inde, dikkat becerileri ve beyinlerinin genel sa?l??? zarar görüyor.
~ Johann Hari
more free play they get, the more sound a foundation they will have for their focus and attention.
~ Johann Hari
On Lenore's street when she was a kid, everyone played softball and policed the rules themselves. Today, they go to organized activities where the adults intervene all the time to tell them what the rules are. Free play has been turned into supervised play, and so—like processed food—it has been drained of most of its value.
~ Johann Hari
Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
~ Johann Huizinga
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.
~ Johann Sebastian Bach