Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

I believe a child's most important job is to explore the world around them through play.

Experiencing lots of different things is what being a kid is all about, and it helps make the most of their childhood.

I mean we all played as kids. You play games, you take on different characters, you imitate; the fun and the love of play has never left me.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.

They gave us the freedom just to play and have fun.

Childhood, after all, is not an ending, but rather a state full of potent curiosity.

Children live in a world filled with possibilities. Their thoughts roam without boundaries, like dreams – full of images, places and actions. Unlike adults, they can’t temper their imaginations with experience. So, when a child plays with a toy or reads a story, it becomes an adventure, a new reality to them.

Sometimes people invent things because they want to stay alive or feed their children or conquer the village next door. But just as often, new ideas come into the world simply because they're fun. And here's the really strange thing: many of those playful but seemingly frivolous inventions ended up sparking momentous transformations in science, in politics and society.

I dig in the sand, and I play with pretty pictures, so I never really left kindergarten.

I believe in the power of play.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

When you are young, you just want to play as many games as you can.

Children should enjoy the few years they have just being a kid.

A child's greatest achievements are possible in play, achievements that tomorrow will become her basic level of real action.

Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.