Best Children Playing Quotes

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased and disappeared. From then on the child played the same games as the adult, either with other children or with adults. . . . Conversely, adults used to play games which today only children play.

They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another of them being killed–run over, maimed, destroyed–but they continued to play anyhow.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.

Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It’s duty.

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I’d see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

Play is the work of the child.

I think those neighborhood signs that say ‘slow children playing’ are mean.

A child playing air guitar plays no wrong notes

Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

What is God after all? An eternal child playing an eternal game in an eternal garden.

You know, it’s just politics, it’s a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil’ children play with toys.

The child plays at being an adult long before he is one, and so you can play with more desirable beliefs while you are still growing into that more beneficial picture.

Contemporary American psychiatristIt is a happy talent to know how to play.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing – just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

Children smile 400 times a day on average … adults 15 times.Children laugh 150 times a day … adults 6 times per day.Children play between 4-6 hours a day … adults only 20 minutes a day.What’s happened?

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock ‘n’ roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas…during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.

And there’s that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within…

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me

He knew one thing only, and it was beyond fear or reason: He was not going to die crouching here like a child playing hide-and-seek; he was not going to die kneeling at Voldemort’s feet . . . he was going to die upright like his father, and he was going to die trying to defend himself, even if no defense was possible. . . .

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in.

The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

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.

It’s nice if you love a liberated person, and you should, because they love you. They’re lovable. They’re children playing in a very, very unusual world filled with vortexes of dancing darkness and light.

Eternity is a child playing, playing checkers; the kingdom belongs to a child.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.