Children Playing Quotes - Page 5

• What is sure is that technological change is accelerating in all directions and, like children playing in a fountain, consumers are reveling in the experience.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Children, Technological Change, Fountain

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• Children play earnestly as if it were work. But people grow up, and they work with a sorrow upon them. It's duty.

  Mary Oliver

  Children, Growing Up, Play

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• Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool.

  Charles P. Kindleberger

  Fashion, Children, People

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• Children play soldier. That makes sense. But why do soldiers play children?

  Karl Kraus

  Children, Army, Play

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.50, University of Illinois Press

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• It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

  Arundhati Roy

  Children, Commitment, Eye

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• I like that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It's probably what I love most about writing--that words can be used in a way that's like a child playing in a sandpit, rearranging things, swapping them around. They're the best moments in a day of writing -- when an image appears that you didn't know would be there when you started work in the morning.

  Markus Zusak

  Morning, Children, Book

  Markus Zusak (2016). “The Book Thief: 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.435, Random House

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• One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

  Giorgio Agamben

  Children, Order, Law

  Giorgio Agamben (2008). “State of Exception”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

  Jean Anouilh

  Life, Children, Garden

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

  Jimmy Buffett

  Children, Wind, Play

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• And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Records, Parks

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