Children Quote by Rebecca Goldstein

Play is the work of the child.

— Maria Montessori

Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own…

— Daniel Goleman

Having a child is all-consuming; so is doing a play.

— Marianne Elliott

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

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

— Bob Keeshan

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

When the spirit of child's play enters into the creative process, it's a wonderful force and something to be nurtured.

— Joni Mitchell

Play is a sacred thing, a divine ordinance, for developing in the child a harmonious and healthy organism, and preparing that organism for the…

— J. G. Holland

Children: a torment and nothing more.

— Leo Tolstoy

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

A child's natural form of behavior is play, and in our aim to educate, play should be honored and preserved for as long past…

— Rebecca Goldstein

There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays…

— Sigmund Freud