Recreation Quotations | Page 2

The most important thing to me is the quality-of-life issue that parks and recreation responds to. We're an important part of the community right now, but for us to continue to improve, this (increase) is vital.

Any progressive community needs to provide recreation for its citizens.

As far as the recreation department, he's been suspended for a year. It's in our recreation department rules that (there's) no physical contact on umpires or even verbal.

The first day I found myself writing down topics of things that I had thought about while I was in the garden and then I just wrote madly for over two weeks. Most recreation relaxes our bodies but keeps our minds engaged. Gardening is just the opposite of that, so it really allows your mind to wander. For me it became a time of thinking about things.

The city never had anything for boys and girls ages 5 to 13, so for the first time in the history of Union City that we wanted to start a soccer recreation program.

This heavy recreation use requires extra caution and patience when visiting the many snow parks and trails.

These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.

It just feels like home. I have three young children and from the school system to recreation to the people this is just a place that feels right. The fact that it's only an hour and a half from where I work, just made it perfect.

It's one of the shameful secrets we have, the beating of homeless for sport. It's a recreation thing, it's an initiation for gangs and fraternities.

There will be no excuse for not playing rugby on a pitch as good as this one. Given the playing surface at the Recreation Ground, I am not sure whether there is greater pressure on us playing at home or away. We have a good record against French teams in the Heineken Cup, but the past is no guide to what will happen on Saturday. We are aware of the challenge which faces us.

It's essentially the USC that helped move this project along and we're in support of it, but obviously we will follow whatever our students say. I think everybody recognizes Western's recreational facilities aren't up to par and we need to improve student recreation on campus.

It's a tradition that continues, and yet we have opposition from groups that think that animals should have equal rights to human beings, and that's probably the biggest threat we have. Other than that, I think there is general acceptance that we need to have wildlife, we need to have outdoor recreation of all kinds.

It's about a three-hour trip, and that's not bad for a weekend getaway. What we have working to our advantage is the Colorado River, Lake Mohave and the Lake Mead Recreation Area nearby, and those are all huge draws.

I am outraged, and I don't think the public is going to stand for it for one minute. It's a scheme to raise money at the expense of the national forests, the wildlife, recreation and all the other values that Americans hold dear. It's the ultimate threat to the national forest.

The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.

I don't like the precedent of creating a national recreation area, then in the first decade carving a piece of it out to sell to an energy company.

For the great, great percentage of the American people who gamble, it's a recreation. And it's a recreation that they have under control.

Herb and I have worked together for nearly two decades, and I've appreciated him as a creative and strategic thinker and, most importantly, as a friend. He has guided Nickelodeon Networks to an unrivaled leadership position and has broadened its businesses to engage viewers beyond the TV screen in licensing, movies, recreation and much more. He is a true innovator, and he is leaving a great legacy for our company and the industry.

He pitched through recreation leagues. He has a good, strong arm. We typically are not real crazy moving our shortstop off of shortstop, but we are looking at him as a closer and how he handles that role.

Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

In the artist's recreation of the world we are enabled to see the world.

Conservation must become before recreation.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

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.

Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles....

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

The best recreation is to do good.