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Quotes About Recreation

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
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
~ Michael Jordan
She laughed. "Welcome to Camp Meds," She said. "Where the campers are crazy and the counselors want you to take drugs.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
I don't really remember a time younger than 5 years old that I didn't have skates on because all I can remember is every day, tying up my skates and a big smile on my face, excited to go on the ice.
~ Michelle Kwan
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
Hobbies that demand skill, habits that set goals and limits, personal interests, and especially inner discipline help to make leisure what it is supposed to be—a chance for re-creation.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday.
~ Mike Morley
someone turned our episode into an off-Broadway musical, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, a story of some postapocalyptic survivors who share only one cultural link: the "Cape Feare" episode of The Simpsons. They recreate the script and perform it as a traveling theater troupe. In act 2 we see their play seventy-five years later: it's become as ritualized and bizarre as a Greek Orthodox Mass. I'm
~ Unknown
Nous avons été jusqu'ici dans un jeûne effroyable de divertissements.
~ Moliere
Recreation becomes a means to re-create one's consciousness at every moment instead of a means to forget oneself and to pass the time.
~ Unknown
patches of light opening up and closing again, the places where leaf over leaf produces a rich saturation of colour, or where the sunshine creates translucency. Like the layered frills of a petticoat or the delicate fanned ceiling of Christ Church Cathedral, so much of what we make in art is an attempt to recreate the simple beauty of a tree.
~ Naomi Alderman
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
~ Nat Hentoff
If you want to take long walks, take long walks. If you want to hit things with sticks, hit things with sticks. But there's no excuse for combining the two and putting the results on TV. Golf is not so much a sport as an insult to lawns.
~ Unknown
Thus, it takes some digging to get at them, to grasp, for example, that a clock recreates time as an independent, mathematically precise sequence; that writing recreates the mind as a tablet on which experience is written; that the telegraph recreates news as a commodity.
~ Neil Postman
remember, camp is kind of like time-out for adults. Only adults time-out last longer than kids time-out
~ Unknown
This was it, his life of crime and recreation about to officially start.
~ Unknown
Skipping gives the adult a well-deserved break and lets the inner child be in charge for a while.
~ Unknown
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
~ Oscar Wilde
Our species is obsessed with play: we are either participating ourselves or watching others play for us.
~ Patricia B. McConnell
was off yanking innocent fish out of an idyllic existence in some lake
~ Unknown
Everything is a version of something else
~ Patrick Marber
Of course I played. It was my only solace.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
None of us gets our dream in the way that we dreamt it, because none of us is writing our own story. God, in his love, writes a better story than we could ever write for ourselves. He has a better dream than the one we conceive. He knows much better than we do what is best for us. He will take us places that we never intended to go because, in doing so, we become more of what he re-created us in Christ to be.
~ Paul David Tripp
We slept as much as we wanted, made love twice a day, read and wrote letters and played cards.
~ Paula McLain