Quotes About Recreation

The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.

The question of essences remains at the heart of the adaptive act; how to make a second version of a first thing, of a book or film or poem or vegetable, or of yourself, that is successfully its own new thing and yet carries with it the essence, the spirit, the soul of the first thing, the thing that you yourself, or your book or poem or film or your mango or lime, originally were.

In order to play some sports there's quite a big cost implication, whereas football is relatively cheap. All you need is a ball and a couple of jumpers to practise.

It was sort of just a family sport. My mom and dad were pretty keen golfers when I was young and so were my grandparents, and I just sort of tagged along with them.

I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

"You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress."

I don't really like using guns too much, you know, even for sport.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress.

A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.

We are here for our amusement.

Then because of the thinking and feeling loop discussed earlier in the book, those thoughts re-create the same emotions and so drive your brain and body further out of order. You'll be able to see the answers more easily when you get beyond that stressful emotion and see your life from a different state of mind

Myths are so intimately bound to culture, time, and place that unless the symbols, the metaphors, are kept alive by constant recreation through the arts, the life just slips away from them.

Serra High school, to me, was my most enjoyable time for me in my entire life. That was the only time I was free. We just played baseball because it was fun.

I enjoy now doing what I do... playing golf, relaxing a little, enjoying life.

Oh, the gallant fisher's life!It is the best of any;'T is full of pleasure, void of strife,And 't is beloved by many.

He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.

How to pry the tourists out of their automobiles, out of their back-breaking upholstered mechanized wheelchairs and onto their feet, onto the strange warmth and solidity of Mother Earth again? This is the problem which the Park Service should confront directly, not evasively, and which it cannot resolve by simply submitting and conforming to the automobile habit.

Something about a river trip always seems to promote the consumption of potable drugs.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

It is one great purpose of the Park to supply to the hundreds of thousands of tired workers, who have no opportunity to spend their summers in the country, a specimen of God's handiwork that shall be to them, inexpensively, what a month or two in the White Mountains or the Adirondacks is, at great cost, to those in easier circumstances.