Quotes About Playground

The last thing we want to admit is that the bickering of the playground perfectly presages the machinations of the boardroom, that our social hierarchies are merely an extension of who got picked first for the kickball team, and that grown-ups still get divided into bullies and fatties and crybabies.

I heard the various terms of abuse at school and probably indulged them in the way you do as a kid.

I like to turn the venue into a jungle gym, into my playground.

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.

I loved practical jokes. I loved being goofy on the playground, and I loved doing silly cartoons, but I was not this subversive little delinquent. I am an Eagle Scout, after all.

I'd be in the backyard minding my own business. The other kids would call me names, like meatball head or neo-Calvinist. I'd run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap my neck back.

It was like tag, but a girl was never "It," only boys were "It," girls simply ran and ran until we found ourselves cornered in some quiet spot, away from the eyes of dinner ladies and playground monitors, at which point our knickers were pulled aside and a little hand shot into our vaginas, we were roughly, frantically tickled, and then the boy ran away, and the whole thing started up again from the top.

You can yell on a playground, but not during dinner.

was being attacked by a flock of harpies that made the playground scene in The Birds look like a Disney movie.

Summertime, I think, is a collective unconscious. We all remember the notes that made up the song of the ice cream man; we all know what it feels like to brand our thighs on a playground slide that's heated up like a knife in a fire; we all have lain on our backs with our eyes closed and our hearts beating across the surface of our lids, hoping that this day will stretch just a little longer than the last one, when in fact it's all going in the other direction.

Dear life, can we go back to when boys had cooties, homework was 2+2, and the drama was over who stole my crayons?

Life, a game; you, a player; earth, a playground; money, your score; God, umpire, death, out of game.

the kingdom of God is so close and nearby that we might have overstepped it in our amusement in the playgrounds of promise.

This was the sort of challenge that delighted Hearst, who, according to one who knew him well, regarded journalism as 'an enchanted playground in which giants and dragons were to be slain simply for the fun of the thing.

Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world's your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?

I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school.

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.

Don't you know any better, guava-head?" "Don't call me that!" the smaller boy shouted, face contorting in rage. "Shitface!" "Frog-guts!" "Caca-brains!

I lived across the street from my elementary school, and in the schoolyard we could always go play there and know we were safe.

I think that all of us are 5-year-olds and we don't want to be embarrassed in the schoolyard.

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

playground behind the school so we would learn how to make a grand entrance

Left! Right! Left! Right!" Dr. Carbles yelled as we marched. "Stop lagging behind, kindergarteners!" Dr. Carbles had us march around the playground a million hundred times. I thought I was gonna die.

1. Andrea has 10 crayons, but, nah-nah-nah boo-boo, A.J. took 5 of them! How many does Andrea have now?