Boyhood Quote by John Greenleaf Whittier

We study play because life is crap. Life is crap, and it’s full of pain and suffering, and the only thing that makes it…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

I didn't do school plays... I've never done a play in my life, actually. Not even a nativity. If I'd been in a school…

— Millie Bobby Brown

Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff.

— Bob Keeshan

“you can't be a doctor. Only boys can be doctors. Leroy's got to be the doctor." "You're full of shit, Spiegelglass, Leroy's dumber than…

— Rita Mae Brown

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant…

— Anonymous

Waking your kids up for school the first day after a break is almost as much fun as birthing them was.

— Jenny McCarthy

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

— Fred Rogers

“Of the seminal moments in my life, Careers Day in the autumn of Year 5 is my favorite. Everyone had to dress as whatever…

— Non Pratt

Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles…

— Stella Chess

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

I can't think of anything more important than a kid being sick and making them laugh and making that whole experience a little easier.

— Coy Bowles

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget