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Quotes About Play

Flashlight beams danced crazily
~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Most sorts of diversion in men children and other animals are in imitation of fighting.
~ Jonathan Swift
Some people have their marriages annulled, which means they never existed. Boy, talk about denial! What do you say when people see your wedding album? 'Oh that was just some play I was in.
~ Carol Leifer
The advantage of wisdom is that you can play dumb. The opposite is more difficult.
~ Kurt Tucholsky
Time is a game played beautifully by children.
~ Heraclitus, Fragments
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
~ Groucho Marx
Fun, fighting, and feeding! These are the three indispensable elements of the boy's world.
~ Baden Powell de Aquino
Children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
~ Michel de Montaigne
In truth it is best to learn wisdom, and abandoning all nonsense, to leave it to boys to enjoy their season of play and mirth.
~ Horace
There is no disease nor misery for thee, but thou art like the infinite sky; clouds of various colours come over it, play for a moment, then vanish. But the sky is ever the same eternal blue.
~ Swami Vivekananda
We must realize also that our so-called possessions are just toys which have been lent to us to play with for a little while. A
~ Swami Vivekananda
Enjoy and encourage your children's love of learning, but foster their play, responsibility, imagination, affection, and fun so they can grow as whole as well as gifted children.
~ Sylvia B. Rimm
Å bli møkkete og havne i kivinger med gutta var vel akkurat slike ting barndommen handlet om.
~ Tamara McKinley
at dawn rabbits bring their kittens out from the foundations to play on ancient graves.
~ Tana French
Would you like an interview for the drama, too?" "I can't act." "Everyone can act. We spend our lives acting.
~ Tanith Lee
There's a lot more to see when you're playing and because of the advances in technology it makes room for all kinds of new characters.
~ Tara Strong
The dead end was considered a plus because we could play in the road without getting run over. Sometimes I envy the children today with all their tae kwon do, psychotherapy, and language immersion, but at the same time, I appreciate that back then being little meant you really didn't have to do anything but stay alive and have fun.
~ Tayari Jones
Mother (fragment) ...You asked me if I would be sad when it happened and I am sad. But the iris I moved from your house now hold in the dusty dry fists of their roots green knives and forks as if waiting for dinner, as if spring were a feast. I thank you for that. Were it not for the way you taught me to look at the world, to see the life at play in everything, I would have to be lonely forever.
~ Ted Kooser
I would love to play in Spain. It would be a dream to play there, as we are talking about the best league in the world.
~ James Rodriguez
Obviously, culturally, England's style of play is a lot more direct and physical. In Spain, they're a lot more patient, and they have the ball a lot more.
~ Toni Duggan
One hundred per cent, to play for Spain is my dream.
~ Ayoze Perez
I came to Spain to play and get more time on the pitch.
~ Andreas Pereira
I want to play in Europe and learn another language. Spain and Italy are options.
~ Jan Vertonghen
I had a memory span about as long as the lines in a school play.
~ Claire Messud