Sherrilyn Kenyon

I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories to the rest of the world. Seriously. They've always been with me. While other girls played with dolls, and my brothers with Hot Wheels, I was busy traveling through space or traipsing through graveyards with my imaginary playmates.

American Writer

Buffy Sainte-Marie

When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

American Musician

Bobbie Ann Mason

I lived on the farm with my parents and grandparents. I had no playmates as a young child, and I was indulged. I helped my grandmother piece quilts, and we made pretty albums, an old-fashioned pastime. We cut poems and pictures out of magazines.

American Novelist

Chester Brown

When I was a teenager, 'Playboy' was the most interesting magazine in the world, and not just for the playmates. I liked the interviews and the stories, and all that, but nowadays most of the stuff in there doesn't interest me.

Canadian Cartoonist

Jimmy Carter

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all white. But I was always eager to get back home to my friends in Archery.

American President

Robert Lefkowitz

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

American Physicist

Charles Lamb

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

English Critic

Tori Amos

I was very close to my mother as the youngest of three. She was my playmate.

Bruce Boxleitner

As a boy, I didn't need a lot of playmates to have a good time.

American Actor

Shanna Moakler

Primarily used for relationships between children or recalling childhood friendships.

Child-centric

Conveys a positive and friendly relationship with shared activities and enjoyment.

Positive Emotion

Does not suggest a romantic relationship, but rather an innocent friendship.

Not Romantic

 I just want you to see the daily life with horses.' She goes, 'you know, it's not all about rodeos and parades,' she goes, 'we just live with the horses.' They live about an hour away from from the main town, so when her kids came from school, this is what they did. And I saw the horses as their playmates.

Erika Larsen: People of...

 It's also lifelong. It never ends. The people in our 75-year study who were the happiest in retirement were the people who had actively worked to replace workmates with new playmates. Just like the millennials in that recent survey, many of our men when they were starting out as young adults

Robert Waldinger: What...

 by interacting with their peers and siblings. Much like ourselves, young orangutans involuntarily mimic the facial expressions and emotions of their playmates, with behaviors that closely parallel human smiling and laughter. Once they finally venture out on their own,

Playmate