Playgrounds Quotes - Page 8

• To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

  Rose Macaulay

  Ambition, Lunch, Goal

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more "masculine influence," whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin.

  George Carlin

  Basketball, Brother, New York

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• My parents enrolled me in a gymnastics class when I was three years old, and I just was drawn to gymnastics. I loved it. It was my playground, and I could run around and be free there.

  Dominique Moceanu

  Running, Gymnastics, Years

  "For Gymnast Moceanu, Life Threw Her Off Balance". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 30, 2012.

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• I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode.

  Josh Groban

  Kids, Long, Remember

  Kansas City Star, August 16, 2004.

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• Eventually, to get through school, I would make good meaningless blobs if I had to. And so they thought I was falling in with them and stuff like that. But on the playground, kids would come up to me and say, "I need three Supermans and a Captain Midnight by four o'clock because I'm going to sell them to somebody else." So I'd take all their lunch money and whip these things out, and they'd have to stick them in their underwear to get the pictures home, because if the teacher ever found out about that.

  Paul Laffoley

  Teacher, Fall, School

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I like to act. I guess letting what you love be what you do is key. I've worked very hard for that to be the case, probably because I'm very lazy and I only want to do things that are fun and I run away from anything that feels like work... Acting for me is like lunch at school - you're just in a playground where you get to pretend and play.

  Dichen Lachman

  Running, Fun, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What I enjoy most are those times when I get an idea and it just flows - the words coming so fast that I'm scribbling to keep up with my characters. I don't have any writing must-haves; this is a good thing, since I've done a lot of my writing in random places like the playground or the subway.

  Leah Cypess

  Character, Writing, Ideas

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• Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.

  Andres Iniesta

  Moving, Kids, Player

  "Iniesta graduates from cameo role to take centre stage at Barcelona" by Sid Lowe, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2009.

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• There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

  Pat Buchanan

  School, House, Scary

  "If Helen Thomas, Then Why Not Pat Buchanan?" by Michael Fauntroy, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2010.

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• And an educated mind is nothing but the God-given mind of a child after his parents' and his grandparents' generation have got through molding it. We can't help teaching you; you will ask that of us; but we are prone to teach you what we know, and I am going, now and again, to warn you:
  Remember we really don't know anything. Keep your baby eyes (which are the eyes of genius) on what we don't know. That is your playground, bare and graveled, safe and unbreakable.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Baby, Children, Teaching

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• I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.

  Ed Bradley

  Inspirational, Basketball, Summer

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• Mammoth is an incredible community and world-class attraction, ... Were committed to creating a vibrant living experience that matches the natural, majestic beauty of the area. 80/50 Mammoth will make the new Village at Mammoth one of the hottest year-round playgrounds in North America. For the first time, Mammoth will be a place where outdoor enthusiasts can experience the unparalleled amenities and services of a five-star resort hotel combined with privileges of owning a prestigious second home.

  Puff Daddy

  Stars, Home, Years

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• If you don't have anything useful to say then you attack people. If you feel that your house of cards has been discovered and is starting to come unraveled, you become very desperate. Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

  Benjamin Carson

  Intelligent, House Of Cards, Names

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• There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice.

  Steve Mariucci

  Football, Running, Beach

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• Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone.

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Stones, Sharon

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• All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

  A. A. Gill

  Philosophy, War, Men

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• All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

  Charles Gates, Jr.

  Art, Business, Book

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• It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.

  Peter Bart

  Years, Tv Shows, Hollywood

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• When I was a little kid I used to go on the playground and say: today I will shoot like Bird, pass like Magic, jump like Mike, be quick like Zeke. I am thankful to them, since without seeing them do things they did, I wouldn't be in the NBA.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Kids, Nba

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• It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Play, Heaven

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Dream, Kids

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• All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.

  Atticus Shaffer

  Jobs, Real, War

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• There are people working their butts off trying to save our republic and save democracy from the likes of powerful people in the Democrat Party who want to take this country and turn it into a personal little playground for their own private gain.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Powerful, Party

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground.

  Stephon Marbury

  New York, Growing Up, Different

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• I had one job that was kind of cop-like. One summer I did security at a miniature golf course. Just standing out in the sun all day, Hey, hey, excuse me sir. Get your putter out of the whale's ass. Come on, this is a place of miniature business. This is not a playground even though it looks like a playground.

  Dane Cook

  Summer, Jobs, Golf

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