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Quotes About Play

At the weekends I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
~ Magnus
I learned that there are two things that kids really like: movement and love. Happy kids move; unhappy, they don't move.
~ Magnus
I love to play games. I really like football, and I also like to ride horses.
~ Mary-Kate Olsen
I really love the piano and I feel very fortunate that I am able to play and travel all over the world as my career.
~ McCoy Tyner
I love mythic stuff. I love playing with gods, I love playing with myths. A lot of it has to do with that they're the basic places stories come from. They're the clay that you make the bricks out of.
~ Neil Gaiman
I love playing and chatting with children...feed ing and putting them to bed with a little story, and being away from the family has troubled me throughout my...life.
~ Nelson Mandela
Willa Jean, pleased to have her grandmother on her side, set a red checker on top of a black checker. "Your turn," she said to Ramona as if she were being generous.
~ Beverly Cleary
She's playing she's waiting for a bus," explained Beezus. Henry groaned. It was the dumbest game he had ever heard of.
~ Beverly Cleary
Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth.
~ Beverly Cleary
make. Henry sent it back across the street. Pow! Scooter
~ Beverly Cleary
She's made me lots of costumes." Maybe "lots" was stretching the truth a bit.
~ Beverly Cleary
Beezus and Ramona defended their possessions from Willa Jean. This is what - called playing with Willa Jean.
~ Beverly Cleary
it was a pretty good insight into how unattractive science can get when you're playing at a certain level.
~ Bill Bryson
How in the world could there be any science in scripture. There cannot be because the two historical periods are separated by so much. (Modern science began in 2000 AD and the scriptures were written BC, well before that). The scriptures are NOT teaching science. It's very hard for me to accept not just a literal interpretation of scripture but a fundamentalist approach to religious belief. It's kind of a play, It presents itself as science.
~ Bill Maher
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
~ Bill Watterson
How come we play war and not peace? Too few role models.
~ Bill Watterson
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
~ Bill Watterson
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
~ Bill Watterson
I should be doing my homework now. But the way I look at it, playing in the snow is a lot more important. Out here I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life. - Such as? - Procrastination and rationalization.
~ Bill Watterson
CALVIN: Look, Hobbes, I got a magic carpet. HOBBES: What's so magic about it? CALVIN: Magic carpets FLY! You can ride them. HOBBES: Isn't this the rug from the hallway? CALVIN: Up, Rug! Up! Up! CALVIN: Hey, Look! It works! Ok, rug, warp factor five. HOBBES: Is this legal? Do you have your registration and proof of insurance?
~ Bill Watterson
Danzo y brinco en la batalla como un enorme juguete; amago con espadín y disparo el pistolete.
~ BORGES JORGE LUIS
It is wonderful what tricks our dreams play us, and how conveniently we can imagine.
~ Bram Stoker
A kitten, a nice, little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and feed, and feed, and feed!
~ Bram Stoker
Night fishing is best, when the fish are drawn to play in spots of bright Moonlight and are easy to see.
~ Susanna Clarke