Books Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do…

— G.K. Chesterton

“With so many alternatives, how can we let our children, our loved ones, ourselves, play a game that may destroy the essence of who…

— Mark Fainaru-Wada

I don't like games. You're robbing the precious time of children to be children. They need to be in touch with the real world…

— Hayao Miyazaki

“Anyone who has ever watched children amuse themselves will recognize that the scientific and technological face of civilization is precisely the result of play…

— Paul Kriwaczek

Seeing games become more of a young person thing, I feel like a toy I grew up with has been left behind. I don't…

— Jenova Chen

It is among the ranks of school-age children, those six- to twelve-year-olds who once avidly filled their free moments with childhood play, that the…

— Marie Winn

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense…

— Daniel Greenberg

“[There are] games children must conjure up to combat an awful fact of childhood: the fact of their vulnerability to fear, anger, hate and…

— Maurice Sendak

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

— Heraclitus

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

It should be noted that children at play are not playing about; their games should be seen as their most serious-minded activity.

— Michel de Montaigne

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

— Newton Lee