Roddy Piper Quotes

Lego allows all levels of complexity. But a child can do their own thing at any level. They can built a pirate ship, for example, and then mash it up with completely different things.

When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when I was like, 'Here they are,' they immediately got it. They saw the appeal, were snapping bricks and creating their little creations right there immediately.

Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.

I think LEGOs are one of the best toys ever developed.

As a child, I spent a lot of time with things like Lego, building trains, cars, complex structures, and I really liked that.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.

Children need to move to develop their brain; it's a natural urge. That's why boys will run after a ball and play soccer despite how many video games are available to them, and they can't help themselves from building with Lego bricks as well. They want to be creating something that's uniquely their own.

When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your mind in your build.

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

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

My sons and I thoroughly enjoy Legos. We go to the toy store every week for more. I never want to take what we build apart; I want to put it on a shelf. My wife is starting to get a little annoyed with the Legos lying around.

Kids get bored easily. They have got to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things.

People tell you not to work with children and animals, and I chose to work with a 7-year-old and several dinosaurs!

If you watch young children play, you will notice that they create games, characters, situations, whole worlds in which they immerse themselves with intense concentration.

Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.

We know when children have a place to play they live healthier, happier lives.

The coolest toys don't have to be bought; they can be built. In fact, sometimes the only way they'll ever exist is if you make them yourself.

My explorations of the technical world started with Legos, with which I was quite creative in constructing moving objects with the basic building blocks that were then available.

My kids would come in from school and sit on the floor in front of the TV and line up duck call boxes and put the stickers on the duck call and then put them in the boxes.

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

It's easier for a kid to have fun and have an imagination.

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.

Yeah, I played with LEGOs. We had LEGOs, Lincoln Logs, and Playmobil, and they all occupied the same space. I guess that's fairly common. I'm saying this as if it's a bizarre phenomenon that we had a toy chest.