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Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul. — Friedrich Frobel

Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born. — Starhawk

The true creator-self is a light-at-heart and care-free child, who accesses destiny as a simple act of joyful play. — Bryant McGill

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play. — Heraclitus

My mother had a habit of hanging onto - even treasuring - the foibles of my distant infantile state. — Alice Munro

I didn't play or like a lot of board games as a child. I liked playing with my G.I. Joes and making up adventures for them. — Jonathan Ames

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. — Simon McBurney

When I was a child I liked the games of Capablanca, and later I was captivated by Alekhine's play. — Vladimir Kramnik

The most effective kind of education is that a child should play amongst lovely things. — Plato

He's not a child but he's childlike, he's not a grown up, he's not a kid, maybe he sounds like an elf on helium, we'll play with it. — Tom Kenny

Everyone of us plays 'tapes' from our parents until we die. That's why it's so important to talk good values to your child — Dennis Prager

The maturity of man - that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play — Friedrich Nietzsche

For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world. — L.R. Knost

In the true man there is a child concealed who wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it. — Lee Child

I wanted to play with death, like a child with a new toy, I wanted to push all the buttons and see what would happen. — Holly Hood

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action. — Lev Vygotsky

The creative writer does the same as the child at play; he creates a world of fantasy which he takes very seriously. — Sigmund Freud

Beating heroin was child's play compared to beating your childhood. When — Stephen King

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts. — Patricia Briggs

Lifetime is a child at play, moving pieces in a game. Kingship belongs to the child. — Heraclitus

Aion is a child at play, playing draughts; the kingship is a child's. — Heraclitus

After the mines, what is fighting? Fighting is child's play — Tommy Farr

Child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived within him and who he will miss terribly — Pablo Neruda

The other kids wanted to play Destiny's Child, but I wanted Anita O'Day. — Nellie McKay

Was I in a nativity play? I think I was an angel; I was a very blonde child, so I tended to get typecast. I have a vague memory of wearing wings. — Hannah Murray

Whoever wants to understand much must play much. — Gottfried Benn

And the game of dominoes is much like life: You gotta play the bones you've pulled. It don't matter if you got seven doubles in your damn hand. — S.B. Redd

Why buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it — Jean Chretien

No child should ever be too sad to play. — Andrew Galasetti

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real. — Margery Williams

Knowing what you want to do and then what you have to do to make it happen is one big difference between adult creativity and child's play. — Rob Bevan

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.
(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna) — Heraclitus

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. — Pablo Neruda

Play continually creates demands on the child to act against immediate impulse, i.e., to act according to the line of greatest resistance. — Lev S. Vygotsky

[The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real. — Sigmund Freud

Not what you would call a musical family, but my father used to play saxophone, and I discovered many genres of music when I was a child. — Rokia Traore

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love. — Madeleine L'Engle

Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself — Henry Adams

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play. — Heraclitus

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play. — Johnny Mercer

The struggle of maturity is to recover the seriousness of a child at play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Children dwell in their dreams. Get them the wings and they'll fly. — Vikrmn

The only response
to a child's grave is
to lie down before it and play dead. — Bill Knott

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

As a child I would play with such imagination that the 'real' world was never real at all. It was full of mystery, adventure and possibility. — Fennel Hudson

My name's Peter. Can I play too? — Brom

To swallow a bitter pill, a child is made to play hopscotch for a horehound, Dr. Praxton had said. — Dew Platt

In a real man there is a child hidden: it wants to play. Up then, you women, and discover the child in man! — Friedrich Nietzsche

Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. — Craig Claiborne

It is in playing, and perhaps only in playing, that the child is free to be creative. — Donald Woods Winnicott

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I was a late bloomer. I was a kinda shy little kid, definitely a child of the dark side. I wanted to play guitar and be in a rock band. — Yul Vazquez

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. — Chris Gabrieli