Will without power is like children playing at soldiers. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information — Henry Jenkins Copy Share Image
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“A street where there are no children playing is a dead street!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are? — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
American writer 1803-1882 Play is our brain's favorite way of learning. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
If the whole of mankind is to be united into one brotherhood, all obstacles must be removed so that men, all over… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
“Taha walked out of the main gate of the building to find there were no children playing in the street. He walked… — Zakaria Tamer Copy Share Image
I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock… — Ronnie Milsap Copy Share Image
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… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“It was funny. The adults taking all this so seriously, and the children playing along, playing along, believing it too until suddenly… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
They wanted to have a good time, but they were like children playing in the street; they could see one after another… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
Life was good. The Sun was setting on a sweet Summer's day. A house on the Budhapara side across the lake.The sounds… — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
Instead of just saying, "I love my baby and I pick him up because he's adorable and it's so nice to cuddle… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
In 1600 the specialization of games and pastimes did not extend beyond infancy; after the age of three or four it decreased… — Philippe Aries Copy Share Image
“As he went up he disturbed a large group of children playing on the stairs who looked at him as he stepped… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things… — Erik Erikson Copy Share Image
“Now I have discovered where it is that she goes. It's the guillotine that draws her, across the river in the Place… — Sandra Gulland Copy Share Image
I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
“Brief dark shadow of a downtown tree, light sound of water falling into the sad pool, green of the trimmed lawn –… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The word God can mean whatever you believe it to mean, for me it is the conscious stream of life from which… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I heard the bells from the future churches, the children playing and laughing in the schoolyards [...] and here was an almond… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“Ove kept exactly to every speed limit, even on that 35 mph road where the recently arrived idiots in suits came tanking… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
“Parents raise children then grow old, and their children forget the things their old parents did for them, because their brains don’t… — Craig Stone Copy Share Image
“The ride back to Kathmandu was comfortable and relaxing. There were more overturned trucks (the gas-powered ones seem to tip the most… — Jennifer S. Alderson Copy Share Image
The great enemy of creativity is fear. When we're fearful, we freeze up - like a nine-year-old who won't draw pictures, for… — Faith Ringgold Copy Share Image
“And so the game went on in this manner, a throng of children playing keep-away from a bowling ball tossed back and… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image