Quotes About Play

To live is to play at the meaning of life...The upshot of this . . . is that it teaches us once and for all that childlike foolishness is the calling of mature men.

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Greeks heard the poems read on stage while a group of dancers performed. Then a clever poet called Aeschylus came along and had a great idea. He put a second reader on stage. Now you had a 'play' –the first drama in the world.

Someone noted that in this culture we worship our work, play at our worship, and work at our play.

He wanted to teach the children that all bodies are beautiful. Among the pupils at Tomoe were some who had polio, like Yasuaki-chan, or were very small, or otherwise handicapped, and he felt if they bared their bodies and played together it would rid them feelings of shame and help to prevent them from developing an inferiority complex. As it turned out, while the handicapped children were shy at first, get soon began to enjoy themselves, and finally they got over their shyness completely.

Work while you work, play while you play - this is a basic rule of repressive self-discipline.

In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

But the joy of life is a very good thing, and while work is the essential in it, play also has its place.

All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten. —Robert Fulgham

We would go to the football pitch near my estate and play until it was dark.

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it.

Play is the best natural resource in a creative economy. Kids need more of it. It is the work of childhood. We hope to intrinsically change the opinion that play is not just a luxury but an absolute necessity for kids' lives.

Liverpool is a club that needs no introduction. I was impatient to play at Anfield, I wanted to feel the atmosphere.

I'm not here today to tell you government doesn't have a role to play. It does, but it needs to be the right role.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

We came from a neighborhood that was kind of older, so we didn't have that many kids that would go out and play. We moved into a neighborhood that has, like, 50 kids in it. There are 12 houses where we kind of all share a big backyard, and we're all circled in there. If one kid goes out there, they all go out and play.

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

I grew up in a time when I could play and bike in the neighborhood, largely because my parents assumed that if I ever needed help, I could ask a nearby adult.

In the early '50s, my great-grandmother and grandfather raised a baby gorilla named Bobo who wore clothes and played with the neighborhood kids.

When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.

In our neighborhood we used to hold major football sessions that went on until it got dark, with everyone playing against each other.