Quotes About Play

If you're creating a smile in yourself and also giving it to someone else, then you've started a dialogue. You also start to play.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.

Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

FIFA stands for discipline, respect, fair-play, not just on the field of play, but in our society as well.

The powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.

In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information

Ich wünschte, ich könnte so leben, Johanna, die Kinder einfach aufwachsen lassen, dreckig, frei und gleich mit welchen Noten, außer Atem von der Sonne, müde von der Luft.

A farce or comedy is best played; a tragedy is best read at home.

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can can play the 'Gloria'? No, not Bach's 'Gloria.' Yours! Your 'Gloria' lives within you. The greatest sin is not finding it, ignoring what God made possible in you.

I understand why people play [soccer]. ... I even learned how to talk the game. It was the opposite of trash talking—tidy talking. I suppose you'd have to call it. If you did something good, it was brilliant; something less than brilliant was useless; if all of you were useless together, you were rubbish; and if a person did something brilliant that nonetheless became useless, everyone cried, 'Oh, unlucky!

Scottish Play Doe was born at 4:13 a.m. on September 6th. The ink was barely dry on his father's new tattoo.

The Boys and the Frogs SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.

Then down into Giggleswick to a silly supper and a game of Trivial Pursuit. To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy.

If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more. I wouldn't have complained about brushing my teeth, or taking a bath, or going to bed at eight o'clock every night. I would have played more. Laughed more. I would have hugged my parents and told them I loved them.

It is not easily summoned. It does not follow the clock. It cannot be rushed. It withers and fades under external schedules and noise and assignments. Rather, it lollygags along on its own; it sprawls in the sun, taking its own time. Divergent thinking is associated with play, creativity, and curiosity.

It is the celebration of privacy and solitude. It is the willingness to follow one's own thoughts. It is the indulgence of play and unscheduled time.

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville.

It was to the small serious boy that he turned for his enjoyment. He had bought the child some cheap wooden blocks, and with these the little one played endlessly and intently, with a purpose obscure to the adult mind, but completely absorbing.

Do you want to see my dolls?" Alice asked. "I have princess dolls and soldier dolls. Today, the princess dolls rescued the soldier dolls from the evil dragon.

Canterbury Cathedral: The first ever pocket watch was found in the walls of its cloister many hundreds of years ago. I decided to come, in the rain, to play with the locals and, if time permitted, attend the evening service.

Being a kid and growing up is such a cool part of life.

Cum de pot oare animalele, care nu È™tiu ce înseamn? s? fii condamnat la solitudine, s? se joace singure, iar omul nu poate, È™i, dac? încearc? s-o fac?, îl cuprinde curând o neliniÈ™te È™i mai mare?

One of the things that stays behind in childhood is baseball infield chatter. "Hey batter, hey batter, batter . . . swing!" For instance, as an adult, I've never seen courtroom proceedings start with "Hey lawyer, hey lawyer, lawyer . . . sue!"