Browsing Topic 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.

If I had my child to raise all over again,I’d finger paint more, and point the finger less.I’d do less correcting, and more connecting.I’d take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.I would care to know less, and know to care more.I’d take more hikes and fly more kites.I’d stop playing serious, and seriously play.I’d run through more fields, and gaze at more stars.I’d do more hugging, and less tugging.I would be firm less often, and affirm much more.I’d build self esteem first, and the house later.I’d teach less about the love of power, and more about the power of love.

Time is a child playing with droughts. The lordship is to the child.

The opposite of play is not work. It’s depression.

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I’m going to be okay.

To stimulate creativity one must develop childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

As the fathers live, so the children play.

The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things — praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts — not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs.

We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything than when we are playing

Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool.

As far as I can see it, anyone who has a problem with what guys do over there is incapable of empathy. People want America to have a certain image when we fight. Yet I would guess if someone were shooting at them and they had to hold their family members while they bled out against an enemy who hid behind their children, played dead only to throw a grenade as they got closer, and who had no qualms about sending their toddler to die from a grenade from which they personally pulled the pin….they would be less concerned with playing nicely.

Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.

From a child’s play, we can gain understanding of how he sees and construes the world–what he would like it to be, what his concerns are, what problems are besetting him.

American writer1803-1882Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.

Play is really the work of childhood.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

I think the number of books published by Mr. Disney has nothing to do with whether or not he is bringing literature to children. That judgment has got to be based on quality rather than quantity. It’s the same old problem that continually plagues American culture. I would rather have children playing their own games out of doors in the sunlight than getting the misrepresentation of literature as given by Walt Disney.

Those who approach life like a child playing a game, moving and pushing pieces, possess the power of kings.

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

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

There’s obviously a big difference between driving on the freeway in the desert, where there are no children playing or running over the road, than deploying it in a neighborhood.

Malcolm Gladwell was on TV talking about wanting to have college football banned. It’s interesting just because of him even bringing the topic up. Sooner or later, whether people are for or against it whether they like it or not, that is going to be a discussion that is going to come up. That’s how it all starts – someone brings up the inquiry: Should we continue to let our children play Pop Warner, high school, and college football? Ten, 15, 20 years from now, who knows where that conversation is going to be.

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in free play.

If you ever watch children play – what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they’re dead serious. They’re not on vacation.

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

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.