Playtime Quotes:

Any way to make a workout feel like playtime is great.

- Lauren Conrad

source: "How celebs stay fit". Slideshow, www.foxnews.com.

topic: Workout, Way, Playtime

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.

- W. E. B. Du Bois

source: W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

topic: Future, Years, Live In The Moment, Playtime, Harvest Time

A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Children, Routine, Essentials, Daily Routines, Playtime

Playtime and nature time are important not only for learning but also for health and development.

- Tara Parker-Pope

topic: Nature, Important, Development, Playtime

It’s a fun playtime. Please, don’t kill it with big words.

- Chuck Palahniuk

source: "Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

topic: Playtime

The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery.

- Erik Erikson

source: Erik H. Erikson (1993). “Childhood and Society”, p.222, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Children, Reality, Play, Children Playing, Children Imagination

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

- J. Robert Oppenheimer

topic: Inspirational, Children, Science, Children Playing, Playtime

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

- Leo Buscaglia

topic: Fun, Educational, Learning, Children Playing, Child Development

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

- Dean Koontz

source: Dean Koontz (2011). “A Big Little Life: A Memoir of a Joyful Dog Named Trixie”, p.170, Bantam

topic: Dog, Evoke, Tenderness, Playtime, Battering

We start out as pretty creative beings... Children let their imaginations take them to place they've never seen and do things that seem impossible. We encourage it as fun and playtime, but we should celebrate it as the potential for great discovery and accomplishment.

- Harvey Mackay

topic: Children, Fun, Discovery, Playtime

Playtime and toys are good for kids, or they wouldn't buy them. McDonald's can provide that experience. And having dinner with the family is good for kids.

- Jim Cantalupo

topic: Kids, Mcdonalds, Dinner, Playtime

We're left alone with each other. We have to creep close to each other and give gentle little nudges with our paws and our muzzles before we can slip into sleep and rest for the next day's playtime.

- Tennessee Williams

source: Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.56, Dramatists Play Service Inc

topic: Sleep, Next Day, Giving, Playtime, Muzzle

The images are designed, so that after you see the picture two or three times, its no longer my film, it starts to be your film, You recognize the people, you know them, and you don’t even know who directed the picture. PlayTime is nobody.

- Jacques Tati

topic: Two, People, Three, Playtime

Unlike most youngsters who have school as their second home where they meet and make friends, for me playtime has been at the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad. When I am not playing a tournament, my days are spent at the Academy with my coaches, physiotherapists and colleagues, who are like family. We laugh and have so much fun.

- Saina Nehwal

topic: Fun, School, Home, Playtime, Badminton

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

- Mark Twain

topic: Motivational, Work, Inspiration, Sawyer, Obliged

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

- Hod Lipson

source: "Digital Cooking: 3-D Food Printers". bigthink.com.

topic: Kids, Space, Looks, Playtime

The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in organized sports. Playtime—especially unstructured, imaginative, exploratory play—is increasingly recognized as an essential component of wholesome child development.

- Richard Louv

source: Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.44, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Sports, Children, Exercise, Organized Sports, Child Development

And extracting one molecule's signature in spectral analysis from the rest of the signatures is hard work, sort of like picking out the sound of your toddler's voice in a roomful of screaming children during playtime. It's hard, but you can do it.

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

topic: Children, Hard Work, Science, Playtime, Toddler