Quotes on Children Playing

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Play is the work of the child.

Creativity represents a miraculous coming together of the uninhibited energy of the child with its apparent opposite and enemy, the sense of order imposed on the disciplined adult intelligence.

Deep meaning lies often in childish play.

It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.