Quotes About Play

Natural playgrounds may decrease bullying.

As a child, acting just seemed like a natural extension of my love of play - and if you've forgotten how to play, you shouldn't be an actor.

Kids are naturally inventive and curious and creative, but most adults have had that beaten out of them. Writing is a form of play; you have to get rid of all those internal censors that we adults have, the things that say, 'Don't go there, that's not allowed.'

Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.

It's fun playing the bad guy. It comes naturally.

I sang barber shop harmony and sort of got into performing. And it just came naturally. Then, when I was in college after the war, I did a play, 'Pygmalion,' by George Bernard Shaw. And from then on, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

Nature was my kindergarten.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

Most little girls don't want to play with trucks, as almost any parent can attest. Including me: when my son gave his daughter Eliza a toy train, she placed it in a baby carriage and covered it with a blanket so it could get some sleep.

You need to remember how to play, to laugh. You need to learn to like yourself more." The hard edges of his mouth softened, curved. "You sound like the priest." "I hope you confessed that you took advantage of me," she teased.

How simple things had been, once upon a time. In the era when children still played with Raggedy Ann, life had been so uncomplicated. Or at least it seemed that way. Though he knew, of course, that the past had its share of pain and ugliness.

Oh yes, I kept all of the abominations at bay while Kaliel played with his favorite sheep behind the bushes.

Oh, good sir," said Bottom. "I knew as soon as I saw your fool's motley you would bring skill and grand disaster to our play.

Whenever your baby wakes in the middle of the night, for whatever reason, never be too playful or friendly. Be loving, take care of the problem, but be careful not to give your baby the wrong idea. Otherwise, she might wake up the next night wanting to play.

It was a day at the theater – what could go wrong?

Literature says something and, at the same time, it denies what it has said; it doesn't destroy signs, it make them play and it plays them. If and whether literature is liberation from the power of the given language depends on the nature of this power.

Emperor Trajan he read an inscription from those same ancient days and in that same spirit: "To hunt, to bathe, to play, to laugh, that is to live.

To go back home was to play with impressions in this way, the way I played with the first pair of glasses I had, looking at a world now sharp and small and not quite real, now standard in size and real but blurred.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.

Las mujeres juegan con su belleza como los niños con un cuchillo, y se hieren.

Knowing that she was beautiful, she was thoroughly conscious, though in an indistinct fashion, that she possessed a weapon. Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

Women play with their beauty as children do with a knife. They wound themselves.

The doll is one of the most imperious needs and, at the same time, one of the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for, to clothe, to deck, to dress, to undress, to redress, to teach, scold a little, to rock, to dandle, to lull to sleep, to imagine that something is some one,-therein lies the whole woman's future.

R?scolea toate tufiÈ™urile È™i toate pietrele, ca s? caute gâze. AÈ™teptând s? viseze, se juca. Îi pl?cea gr?dina cu gâng?niile care furnicau în iarb?, sub picioarele ei, aÈ™teptând s-o iubeasc? pentru stelele pe care avea s? le vad? printre ramuri, deasupra capului.