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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

Worrying about life's circumstances of those I love, but over which I have no control is a dangerous, never-ending and pointless game to play. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

Play is basic to all normal and healthy children. It provides pleasure and learning and a minimum of risks and penalties for mistakes. — Frank Caplan

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play. — Beverly Cleary

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying. — Terry Pratchett

Play is the work of the child. — Maria Montessori

Nothing is more important than creative play through imagination.
Never stop playing, and never stop imagining! — Carmela Dutra

GDP does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play — Robert Kennedy

My father had a dairy farm. He employed three black families and one white family, and I used to play with black children. — Billy Graham

I did play Ramses II once, who lived to be 91 and had 120 children, but he died 4,000 years ago. — Christopher Lee

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

Children are supposed to go to school, play on swing sets, skin their knees. — Jodi Picoult

God-noise, because I believe that if God had a heart, its beating would be the sound of children at play. — Iimani David

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

You can do anything with children if you only play with them. — Otto Von Bismarck

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

You never realize the value of coaching until your children play for a coach — Don Meyer

I believe we should encourage children to sing and play instruments from an early age. — Mick Jagger

Childhood's work is learning, and it is in his play ... that the child works at his job. — Caroline Pratt

The freest child is the child who is most interested in what he is doing, and at whose hand are the materials for his work or play. — Caroline Pratt

Children don't play outside enough. For hundreds of thousands of years young people spent time outside - until 15 years ago. — Robert Bateman

Women play on their beauty as children play with their knives. And they hurt themselves on it, too. — Victor Hugo

I hate the thought of my children being glued to a screen. Children only play on computers all day because their parents let them. — Mariella Frostrup

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

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play. — Nastassja Kinski

School librarians play such an enormous role in bringing children to books they are going to enjoy. It's a magic alchemy when that works. — Chris Riddell

I didn't play with other children. — Karl Lagerfeld

Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic. — Sarah Jessica Parker

[ ... ]make sure you raise your children by having them play in their studies, and don't use force. — Plato

Fathers always play mahagurus to their children, and I am no exception. — Mithun Chakraborty

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

Play is as necessary to the perfect development of a child as sunshine is to the perfect development of a plant. — Orison Swett Marden

Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. — Alfred Adler

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

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured. — Joni Mitchell

Today, make time to play. — Na'ama Yehuda

I have a nut allergy. When I was at school the other children used to make me play Russian roulette but force-feeding me a packet of Revels. — Milton Jones

Enter into children's play and you will find the place where their minds, hearts, and souls meet. — Virginia Axline

I want to play the fake child on 'To Catch A Predator.' No, wait! I want to play the Leaf Man! — Carey Mulligan

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child. — Bryant McGill

Children worked in the mills: I will always believe that children are designed for green meadows and play, not for factories and cotton dust. — Nancy B. Brewer

I don't think we would be specifically remaking "Child's Play 2" and "Child's Play 3". I imagine we'd be dreaming up whole new stories. — David Kirschner

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing. — Luciano Pavarotti

This world is not a playground where children at play are pampered by friendly nannies. — Wendelin Wiedeking

So the I.F. is spying on Earth."
"Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard."
"Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy. — Orson Scott Card

As the fathers live, so the children play. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Strange children should smile at each other and say, Let's play. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It was fate, I thought. Just fate. We think we control our own lives, but the gods play with us like children playing with straw dolls. — Bernard Cornwell

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity. — Michel De Montaigne

Children do not play because they learn; They play because they play. — Magda Gerber

I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are? — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Children's play is a way to express innate, spontaneous creativity. — Iben Dissing Sandahl

Imagine, pretend, and play so you can become anyone you want to be. You don't need to be afraid. — Carolyn Byers Ruch

You kids shouldn't play so rough ... somebody's gonna start crying. — Michael Madsen

I wouldn't let my children play football. — Peter Landesman

I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own. — Esther Rolle

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

Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play tennis, I don't play music, but I have a great time. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. — Rob Brezsny

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

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure. — Pierre Beaumarchais

To take nature and natural play away from children may be tantamount to withholding oxygen. — Richard Louv

I don't have a lot of hobbies. I don't play golf. I don't have any children. Things that occupy people's time. I just try to take jobs. — Christopher Walken

Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away. — William Cowper

I wondered then why children played so in the river, but adults ceased to see it with the same eyes. Why couldn't we embrace such simple joys? — John Shors

Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood. — Sarah Ruhl

We as authors sign a pact with our readers; they'll go on reading because they trust us to play fair with them and deliver what we've promised. — Pamela Glass Kelly

Be fair. Play hard. — Dan Venezia

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. — Bob Keeshan

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

Our ancestors are our children; we peer through a hole in the wall and watch them play in their rooms, and they can't see us. — Amin Maalouf

The golf links lie so near the mill, That almost every day, The laboring children can look out, And watch the men at play — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn

Teachers are unparalleled in the role they play in children's lives. — Jon Porter

[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

I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up ... — Keith Green

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important — Fred Rogers

With a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you; with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner. — Philip Sidney

The social world is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably the way we think. — Don Tapscott

While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain. — Wes Fesler

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

Children require long, uniterrupted periods of play and exploration — Jean Piaget

Not by force shall the children learn, but through play — Plato

A physicist shirking measurement plays, different from children only in the nature of his game and ... his toys. — Franz Karl Achard

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

Gretel: Not the type of children I want to play with.
Bruno: I could come over on a visit and no one would be any the wiser. — John Boyne

Where the cheerful children
of unwritten poems,
play all around,
you will find me there. — Khadija Rupa

Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Time is a game played beautifully by children. — Heraclitus

A creative invitation is a combination of materials and context that intrigue children with a suggestion of play. — Rachelle Doorley

It's the witching hour once more-
When the Muse comes out to play.
He calls me through that magic door-
Where galaxies of worlds await! — Belle Whittington

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

Forget about teaching the children about numbers and colors and the like, and just play with them. — Brian Sutton-Smith

Consumerism has brought us anxiety. Set aside time to play with your children, and turn off the TV when they sit down to eat. — Pope Francis

I was obliged to play the piano, like middle-class children are. I didn't start to love it until I was 14. — Jonathan Dimbleby

[Children] just cannot be sad too long, it is not in them, as children mourn in little bits here and there like patchwork in their lives. — Nancy E. Turner

Two kangaroos were talking to each other, and one said, 'I hope it doesn't rain today. I hate it when the children play inside. — Henny Youngman

my life is a pond filled with stones - tossed and rippled by children at play — Tshombe Sekou

We want for our children, as we want for ourselves, lives at home, at work and at play to be lives of joy and peace. — Betty Williams