Quotes About Play

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Earlier in this century someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at our play, and play in our worship.

Girls spend slightly more time playing with the doll than with the truck. Boys on the other hand typically spend great deal more time playing with the truck rather than with the doll.

Do let's pretend that I'm a hungry hyena, and you're a bone!

Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.

For a brief while, the women ask us questions: are we looking forward to our debuts? Did we enjoy this opera or that play? As we give our slight answers, they smile, and I cannot read what is behind their expressions. do they envy us our youth and beauty? Do they feel happiness and excitement for the lives that lie ahead of us? Or do they wish for another chance at their own lives? A different chance?

She was going to have to be careful not to forget that Caleb's intentions were not honorable. To him she was just an amusement, something to play with. His interest in her was as selfish and thoughtless as Isadora's had been. With

All bankers assume your money is theirs to play with.

The ghost accused the widow's new husband of having murdered her old one (himself), leaving Moschion in anguish about what to do. Obviously the rest of the play concerned Moschion's frustrated efforts to get the ghost into court as a witness.

Who is not attracted by bright and pleasant children, to prattle, to creep, and to play with them?

Toys are intriguing, and I want to see what I can do with them. On a deeper level, they represent one way that society socializes its young

We have to promote human solidarity, avoid indifference, and play a part with society in the solution of the problem of violence.

Play is an expression of God's presence in the world; one clear sign of God's absence in society is the absence of playfulness and laughter.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.

I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.

And then there is the universal role of adult. When you play that role, you take yourself and life very seriously. Spontaneity, lightheartedness, and joy are not part of that role.

I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.

Ego got you thinkin' you're workin' somebody to your advantage

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.

I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay.

Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play.