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Quotes About Play

Mother Nature is wonderful. Children get too old for piggy-back rides just about the same time they get too heavy for them.
~ Anonymous
I love to play hide and seek with my kid, but some days my goal is to find a hiding place where he can't find me until after high school.
~ Anonymous
I have a warm feeling after playing with my grandchildren. It's the liniment working.
~ Anonymous
A game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
~ Anonymous
Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,Where the deer and the antelope play,Where seldom is heard a discouraging wordAnd the skies are not cloudy all day.
~ Anonymous: Cowboy Songs
London Bridge is falling down,My fair lady.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Sukey, take it off again,They've all gone away.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Rain, rain, go away,Come again another day.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Little Tommy TittlemouseLived in a little house;He caught fishesIn other men's ditches.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Tom, Tom, the piper's son,He learned to play when he was young.But all the tune that he could playWas "Over the hills and far away."
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
And how about you? Do you want to understand and play the game of life or fool around with miracles?
~ Anthony de Mello
This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.
~ Anthony Doerr
The girl climbs into the swing and pendulums back and forth, pumping her legs, and watching her opens some valve in Werner's soul. This is life, he thinks, this is why we live, to play like this on a day when winter is finally releasing its grip.
~ Anthony Doerr
Drunken, foolhardy Aethon mistakes a magical city in a play for a real place. He sets off for Thessaly, land of magic, and accidentally turns himself into a donkey.
~ Anthony Doerr
For the first time in human history, most people are doing things that could never interest a child enough to want to tag along. That says less about the child than about us.
~ Anthony Esolen
I came here in 1974 to do a play, and then I went to L.A. I really like living in America. I feel more at home here than anywhere else.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Horowitz
~ TOYS AREN'T US
We were like two actors in a play, reciting lines that had been written by someone else. He gave me a peck on the cheek and then — exit stage right — I went upstairs on my own.
~ Anthony Horowitz
We used our imagination to create a world of wolves and vampires, ghosts and Cossack warriors—and we chased each other right through the middle of them.
~ Anthony Horowitz
I don't know the stats but with Mesut in the team, you are always going to get at least three chances a game from him. He always provides an excellent pass or something, a good move or play that leads to a goal, or almost leads to a goal.
~ Alex Iwobi
I think a lot of actors feel like outsiders or miscreants. This profession provides an opportunity to play out all the different parts of ourselves.
~ Ruth Negga
Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.
~ Shigeru Miyamoto
A lot of people ask: 'Will you play a psycho to really change your image and prove you can act?' But that's not what I'm about.
~ Zac Efron
All you ever want as an actor is to play psychologically complex, interesting characters and Jeremy Bamber is at the very least that.
~ Freddie Fox