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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

Play is the work of the child. — Maria Montessori

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

Business is business, no child's play. — Swami Vivekananda

Family life! The United Nations is child's play compared to the tugs and splits and need to understand and forgive in any family. — May Sarton

Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play. — Herman Melville

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

A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must. — Catherynne M Valente

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

But we were lonely. we had nobody to play with. The gay child, the inventive child, the spirited and wild child, was lonely. — Anais Nin

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

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

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

What is it the child knows about happiness, passion, and play, that the adult forgets? Eastern — Tom Shadyac

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

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

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

Fiction is to grown men what play is to the child. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every young boy loves that as a kid. — Cole Hauser

How many people cdan play a piano? . . . Practically anybody who has ever been a child. It is a standard parlor accomplishment. — Dorothy West

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

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

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

Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain. — Aristotle.

Sex is child's play; but gender is serious business. — Yuval Noah Harari

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

What is impossible with man is child's play with God. — Mahatma Gandhi

A child's temperament appears to play another significant role in the child's own perceptions and worldview. — Asa Don Brown

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

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself. — Lev Vygotsky

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For A Life Filled with High-Flying Fun, Play with the Wonder of A Child — Viola Shipman

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. — Dag Hammarskjold

Let the child be the scriptwriter, the director and the actor in his own play. — Magda Gerber

Understanding physics is child's play when compared to understanding child's play. — Albert Einstein

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that. — Allen Toussaint

In the creative process there is the father, the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and the child, the role to be born. — Constantin Stanislavski

A name, for me, is a short way of working out what class that child comes from. Do I want my child to play with them? — Katie Hopkins

Writing a computer virus program is child's play. Any fool can do it, which is why the silly little twerps who do have nothing to be proud of. — Richard Dawkins

It is marvelous to see the raw play of emotions on the face of a child. No trying to conceal any feeling or disguise one emotion as something else. — Jessica Brockmole

Men are born for games. Nothing else. Every child knows that play is nobler than work. He — Cormac McCarthy

Tiddlywinks, tiddlywinks, I want to play tiddlywinks, chanted Ramona, shaking her head back and forth. — Beverly Cleary

My parents were always involved in community theatre, and I'd do the tech work and play the child. — Mark Linn-Baker

You know, the critics never change; I'm still getting the same notices I used to get as a child. They tell me I play very well for my age. — Mischa Elman

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

Philosophers play with the word, like a child with a doll. It does not mean that everything in life is relative. — Albert Einstein

I've found that child's play -stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy- was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult. — Matt Groening

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

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

I love to sing and play the piano. As a child, I've always loved to sing my heart out, and even my teachers encouraged me to take up singing. — Terence Lewis

Allow your inner-child out to play! — Lisa Picard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love. — Rick Springfield

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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