Quotes About Playfulness

there was something in your children that could bring out the child in yourself.

That's what's important these days, isn't it. Everything should be fun and lighthearted.

A child laughed; a long, gurgling giggle, like a stream of soap bubbles.

She felt as if she needed to run crazily across a huge expanse of grass, flinging her body about like a puppy let off its leash.

Of course they danced together; how could Callum resist dancing with a real live woman instead of a cardboard cut-out?

Jesus. She even knew Liam's name. How was that possible? She'd forgotten her very existence until thirty seconds ago. Liam looked over, aimed his stick straight at Cecilia and pulled the imaginary trigger. "Liam!" said Tess at the same time as Cecilia groaned, clutched her chest and buckled at the knees. She did it so well, for an awful moment Tess worried that she really was collapsing. Liam held the stick up to his mouth, blew on it and grinned, delighted.

Children's laughter is the music of heaven.

Don't kiss me," she said warningly. "I don't intend to," he replied, smiling a little. "I don't have my whip and chair with me.

I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.

Childhood is really age-less. It's just a matter of how much time you can invest in it.

Don't ever scare me like that again, swinging on the rope." "I won't. I'll find a new way," she teased.

If your concern is that I may be overcome with manly ardor and ravish you in a moment of weakness… I may. If you ask nicely.

Rather than argue, Amanda smiled at him. "And then what will you do while your son or daughter is in charge of your store and your companies?" "I'll spend my days and nights pleasing you," he said. "It's a challenging occupation, after all." He laughed and dodged as she went to swat his attractive backside.

There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and books: being able to write about things I wouldn't normally write about, like a disappointing pancake, or monsters or opposite day is really different than writing about heartbreak and relationships.

Mom would say, 'Get out of the house,' and we would just go. We had all sorts of large swings and flying foxes and various death traps throughout the forest that we'd try and do our best to hurt ourselves on. It was a great childhood in terms of being creative, I think.

Jean-Luc didn't like me to say any bad words in real life, and I would always do it on purpose, just for fun. And he would go crazy! Then he had Brigitte Bardot do just that in 'Contempt.' And in that film she also has this line - 'I want red velvet curtains, or nothing at all in the apartment' - which was something I would always say.

Caution: These verses may be hazardous to your solemnity.

It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.

I encourage everyone who works with children to remember to occasionally pause and try to think like a child. I think you'll be glad you did.

Necesita acercarse a los diferentes aspectos de su vida con una cualidad de niño - con la maravilla de un infante que cree que todo es posible.

Laugh while you can, Monkey Girl

Moochie, I hope that wherever you are, you can catch every cat you chase, that you get to eat every chicken wing you find, and that nobody complains when you wake them up in the middle of the night and pretend you have to go out just so you can nudge them out of the warm spot in the bed.

I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you've got to pay for it. Where's the fun in that?

She laughed when there was no joke. She danced when there was no music.