Play Behavior Quotes

I have been playing with boys, which is helpful for me.

Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

For humans and animals alike, truly vigorous, wholehearted, spontaneous play is something of a biological frill.

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play.

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

Even at home I always play with the boys, I only play with the girls when I am closer to the tournament or a series.

Play seems to be one of the first activities inhibited by the presence of an observer until a group becomes well habituated. For this reason, I consider it more common than previously thought.

Children who play regularly with their peers are most likely to achieve the highest levels of adjustment as adults.

Toys are put on this Earth to be played with by a child.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.

Girls . . . were allowed to play in the house . . . and boys were sent outdoors. . . . Boys ran around in the yard with toy guns going kksshh-kksshh, fighting wars for made-up reasons and arguing about who was dead, while girls stayed inside and played with dolls, creating complex family groups and learning how to solve problems through negotiation and roleplaying. Which gender is better equipped, on the whole, to live an adult life, would you guess?

Men play harder than they work; women work harder than they play.

In play, a child is always above his average age, above his daily behavior; in play, it is as though he were a head taller than himself.

When my own son was 12, we didn't want toy guns in the house. So he just picked up a stick and went, 'Bam! Bam! Bam!' That's the testosterone of a 12-year-old boy.

Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.

When I am home alone I like to scatter my tackle across the floor and play with it. I may pretend I am working on it, performing preventative maintenance, but really it is playing.

If you ever watch children play - what do you observe when you watch children play? You know, they're dead serious. They're not on vacation.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

What if it was cats who invented technology, would they have TV shows starring rubber sqeaky toys?

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren't very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

As a child, I think everybody imitates their favorite cartoon character in some form or another when they're playing.