Adults Quote by Sinclair Lewis

The essence of childhood, of course, is play.

— Bill Cosby

Play is the work of childhood.

— Jean Piaget

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 really the work of childhood

— Fred Rogers

“On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. ... Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful…

— John Muir

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

— Sarah Ruhl

The plays of children are nonsense, but very educative nonsense. So it is with the largest and solemnest things, with commerce, government, church, marriage,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“While Terry joined the others in the pool, I subjected myself to a dreadful thing called musical chairs, another cruel game. There's one chair…

— Steve Toltz

Childhood play is nothing more than an expression of our individuality and preparation for human interaction.

— Frank Gehry

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

— Bill Cosby

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in…

— John Muir

At the center of everything we call 'the arts,' and children call 'play,' is something which seems somehow alive.

— Lynda Barry