Ronald Graham Quotes

To work with children anywhere is just plain fun.

It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

'Heartbreak House' was a lot of fun for me. I must have missed that day at school. I'd never read it or seen it. It's one of those things that a lot of people are familiar with.

I listen to kids play a lot.

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Math is one of my favorite subjects.

There is nothing better than work. Work is also play; children know that. Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

Once you open the toy box they will play with the toys

When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.

I love algebra. Love it.

I believe in the power of play.

When we go out there, we have fun, but we get to work, and I think we're at our best when we're having fun. Having fun is key.

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

My mom works at an accounting firm; my dad's a math teacher.

I think what kids do is play.

Every kid likes to be read to, or just even have an adult play with them, no matter if it's little girls with a tea party or boys playing in the dirt, it's all part of being a kid. It's something we all went through.

Growing up in Highland Park, in high school, I had some very influential teachers: I had a math teacher who taught calculus that helped me learn to be in love with mathematics; I had a chemistry teacher who inspired us to work what was in the class and to go beyond.

Science and math are hard for everybody, and it's usually not a matter or being born gifted at it or not. It's hard work, but it can be a lot of fun!

By playing, you learn.

I mean, our job is - we're baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we're just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.

What I will do is work, although it is clear that we all want to play.

We couldn't be happier that the show has encouraged kids to have an interest in science and math, but we don't try to do that. We just have fun, which is its own bold statement.

Whatever I do, when I'm working, I'm very serious. But after, I will play, I am funny.

Fun is just another word for learning.