When we were children we played on the street - on tarmac…

In the Seventies, my children played in the street, read politically incorrect stories, ate home-cooked food and occasional junk and, yes, were sometimes smacked.

— Laurie Graham

“I stumble across the sea of tarmac, finding pavement, concealment and a brick wall. Palms brace against the scrubby surface. My stomach churns and…

— Rebecca Clare Smith

“You have five minutes or I decorate the tarmac with my brains.”

— Maya Banks

“I melt and swell at the moment of landing when one wheel thuds on the runway but the plane leans to one side and…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves.”

— Yahia Lababidi

Children who played outside every day, regrdless of weather, had better motor coordination and more ability to concentrate.

— Richard Louv

“Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.”

— Gregory Maguire

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

— Rob Brezsny

“The trees had stripped down to their black bones and had heaped leaves in drifts against hedges and walls. Children played amongst them, tossing…

— J.L. Carr

We played out on the street every single day as a family, with neighbours, at the community centres, and I developed the desire to…

— Nikita Parris

A lot of kids in my neighborhood when I was younger played street football. My brothers and sisters always wanted me to come outside…

— Nelson Agholor

I'd call the play-by-play of the action when me and my friends played street ball.

— Rich Eisen

I played street football from the age of seven and later went into the varzea. Sometimes I'd play as many as three or four…

— Gabriel Jesus

I played street basketball for a while and wanted to play competitively, but I was so used to the street-style of game that I…

— J. D. Martinez

I have very fond memories of growing up in Greece, of my brothers and I causing chaos and climbing up trees, which is really…

— Tracy Spiridakos