Recreation Quotes
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Recreation Quotes & Sayings
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The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.
— Samuel Chadwick
How could they think women a recreation? Or the repetition of bodies of steady interest? Only the ignorant or the busy could.
— Jack Gilbert
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
— Michel De Montaigne
Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.
— Tom Stoppard
Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.
— Orville Dewey
It is the goings-on between bites that excites the traditional angler as much as when the float goes under.
— Fennel Hudson
recreation, was already talking
— Michael J. Tougias
Fix your mind on truth, hold firm to virtue, rely on loving kindness, and find your recreation in the Arts.
— Confucius
During its nearly one hundred years of existence, [the Forest Service] has consistently demonstrated a preference for exploitation over recreation.
— Don Scheese
Conservation must become before recreation.
— Prince Charles
Golf is played with a number of striking implements more intricate in shape than those used in any form of recreation except dentistry.
— E. V. Knox
Practice, which some regard as a chore, should be approached as just about the most pleasant recreation ever devised.
— Babe Didrikson Zaharias
The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.
— Philip Guedalla
In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.
— John W. Gardner
We do not learn for the benefit of anyone, we learn to unlearn ignorance.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.
— Laura Joh Rowland
Can we all admit that 'Parks and Recreation' is horrible? Is this something we would all know, but don't say? Maybe everything should not be improv'd.
— Andy Kindler
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose
— Winston S. Churchill
Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.
— Brigham Young
The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.
— George M. Church
Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.
— Vladimir Lenin
Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.
— Janice Hahn
I'm not compromised by the ravages of adult recreation ...
— Ron Currie Jr.
All the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, into our schools, our churches and our places of recreation and amusement,
— Strom Thurmond
We do not measure a culture based on its output of undisguised trivialities, but what it claims as significant.
— Neil Postman
Tobin Hart calls play "the holy work of children" that helps them "find and define themselves."[2]
— Tobin Hart
The most successful people I know create superior results yet still maintain a balance among work, family, and recreation in their lives.
— Jack Canfield
He was one of the fortunate few for whom there simply was no discernible line between work and play, between creation and recreation.
— George F. Will
He'd had a great baptism into the joys of Recreation and some of the intrigue and delights it could possibly offer.
— Jill Thrussell
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.
— Frederick Rolfe
Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.
— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
— Edward Weston
Enrolling your child in a recreational sport sponsored by your neighborhood recreation community centers is a great way to keep kids active.
— Lee Haney
Man is for war; woman for the recreation of the warrior.
— E. M. Forster
It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.
— David Toms
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.
— Robin Boyd
Cabal slapped him hard. Perhaps harder than necessary, but he felt he deserved a little recreation.
— Jonathan L. Howard
Let us seek to extend the present life to the uttermost by observing every law of health, and by properly balancing labor, study, rest and recreation.
— Brigham Young
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
— Steve Carell
Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution ... looking for a loophole.
— Mort Sahl
He frowned. "Who cares about that? Screw the gerbils."
"Screw them?" I raised an eyebrow. "Lyle, this is not your personal recreation time. — Cecily White
"Screw them?" I raised an eyebrow. "Lyle, this is not your personal recreation time. — Cecily White
There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day's angling. Catching fish is but one of them.
— Fennel Hudson
Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach
of the human spirit. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!
— Michael Caine
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.
— Eda LeShan
Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.
— Thomas Jefferson
The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.
— Maria Monk
rational recreation" genre. Now, however, magic tricks featuring sympathetic ink began to be added, and they
— Kristie Macrakis
To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.
— Blaise Pascal
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.
— William Shakespeare
Fly-fishing is the sport of the thinkers and the dreamers," Gunnar said. "It is the contemplative man's recreation.
— Clare Vanderpool
Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.
— Anna Howard Shaw
We're going jogging."
"I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon."
"That can be arranged, — Karen Chance
"I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon."
"That can be arranged, — Karen Chance
I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.
— Aziz Ansari
I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation.
— Louis C.K.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
— Bob Hope
Sometimes, the inessential is essential.
— T.L. Rese
Women are for procreation, not recreation; they will only distract you.
— Malcolm Archibald
He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.
— John Locke
When is the last time your computer restarted you? Don't forget about nature. Recreation means to re-create yourself.
— Bryant McGill
Art is both creation and recreation.
— Lin Yutang
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
— Henry David Thoreau
People need recreation, need to be achieving, need to contribute; but if these come at the cost of friendship with Christ, the price is much too high.
— Marion D. Hanks
I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.
— Ben Schwartz
If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.
— Henry Petroski
The best recreation is to do good.
— William Penn
I think our forests should be preserved as much as humanly possible for recreation and just for enjoyment of the natural beauty of Pennsylvania.
— Ed Rendell
Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.
— Francis Quarles
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts.
— Confucius
Leslie, I typed your symptoms into the thing up here and it says you could have network connectivity problems.
— Chris Pratt
We're not trying to recreate Yugoslavia
— Chris Patten
I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.
— Rick Ross
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel De Cervantes
Reading mysteries: the recreation of intelligent minds.
— Donna Andrews
Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.
— H.C.Paye
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
— John Wanamaker
Angling is a recreation. It's supposed to be fun.
— Fennel Hudson