Quotes About Play

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

Each night, as I closed my eyes, I would find myself back in the same meadow. The more I played, the more glass fell from my head. I knew that it was trauma being evicted from my body. But I thought to be healed of the trauma I should be quoting the Word incessantly... Not playing... "Rest ... rest and play....

His joy is His fellowship with His children. He is a Father. He is the Father after whom all fatherhood is named. And the Father loves His children. He longs to fellowship with His children, to play with His children. To laugh and dance, sing and talk with His children.

A friend of mine said that dogs and kids were great as long as you let them run around and tire themselves out. My mind was the same way. (176)

I write because I love to play with language.

Teacher says the sand is soiled and too dirty to play in." "Please help us, Thomas.

Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.

Life is a play acted by dying men, Where, if its heroes seem to foot it well And go light-tongued without grimace of pain, Death will be found anon. And who shall tell Which part was saddest, or in youth or age, When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage?

I still take great pleasure in playing around with philosophical questions, the ones that [Bertrand] Russell is the first to admit have no unequivocal answers. . . . I guess this quality makes me a Cerebral Hedonist, although some would say it makes me a mental masochist.

A child has no great wish to perfect himself in the use of an instrument of torture, but make it a means to his pleasure, and soon you will not be able to keep him from it.

the economy of movement of a battery-powered toy.

always felt them to be something to cope and contend with, to navigate around, rather than as individuals to get to know and to play with.

I LIKE TENNIS BALLS! TENNIS BALLS ARE ROUND! I LIKE ROUND THINGS!

youth is like a good card, which one can either play or hide under one's vest.

It is not necessary to have swimming water for ducklings, even though they thoroughly enjoy going for a paddle within days of hatching.

One of the greatest faults in modern education is overstructuring, which does not allow for play at every point in the educational process. -Edward T. Hall

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

If he was going to be in solitary confinement, he might as well play a little solitaire.

I think when you're learning an instrument, you are restricted because much of it is the noise of individual theory and your ability to play the instrument.

Squeak sq-squeak sq-squeak: fifty tennis shoes jumping and skipping against the waxed wood floor. Dodgeball. Perfect. It smells like the armpits of Satan in here.

What would it be like to be Christ? I mean, did He ever play ball? Did He ever knock a window out of somebody's house and did He ever have to explain to His dad that He had to borrow twelve dollars?

We can't play God. We can't do this to kids. You're evil, I'm evil. Everyone will die. No matter what. Let nature win.

We are evil. They are kids. We are evil. We should stop, let the Munies have the world. We are evil. We can't play God. We can't do this to kids.