Age Quote by Margaret Mead

Play is really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain…

— Samuel Johnson

“Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they…

— G. Stanley Hall

Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age.

— William Feather

“Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.”

— William Feather

“Play itself is a primary process, not a luxury, not a hobby, but something all children must do to survive into adulthood.”

— Sarah Ruhl

“It would be better to have no school at all than the schools we now have. Encouraged, instead of frightened, children could learn several…

— John Cage

“...the salient feature of the absurd age I was at--an age which for all its alleged awkwardness, is prodigiously rich-- is that reason is…

— proust

“Children need more time to be simply children and adults need more time to remember their childhood and how they once played.”

— Ellen Palestrant

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