Recreation Quotes - Page 8

• I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

  Rick Ross

  Fun, Writing, Mean

  "13 Questions With Rick Ross". Interview with Emma McKay, www.askmen.com.

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• I don't have a lot of recreation time. I've always been under the assumption that if you're selling tickets you need to work. The kind of success that's happened to me maybe only happens to one comedian every twenty years and so I'm on the road constantly.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Years, Comedian, Twenties

  Source: www.huskermax.com

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• There were never a lot of attacks on my work. We were building more parks than were ever built in the city, building more recreation centers, fixing more streets. We had national events, the Super Bowl, the (Major League Baseball) All-Star game, Final Four. We built seven hotels. The city hadn't built a hotel in 20 or more years.

  Kwame Kilpatrick

  Baseball, Stars, Years

  Source: www.finalcall.com

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• Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.

  Dorothy Thompson

  Hands, Brain, Occupation

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• The enjoyment of the choicest natural scenes in the country and the means of recreation connected with them is thus a monopoly, in a very peculiar manner, of a very few very rich people. The great mass of society, including those to whom it would be of the greatest benefit, is excluded from it. In the nature of the case private parks can never be used by the mass of the people in any country nor by any considerable number even of the rich, except by the favor of a few, and in dependence on them.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Country, Mean, Numbers

  Frederick Law Olmsted (2016). “Frederick Law Olmsted: Writings on Landscape, Culture, and Society”, p.426, Library of America

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• Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

  Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

  Pleasure

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• Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

  Melvil Dewey

  Book, Inspiration, Giving

  "Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship".

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• For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

  Michael K. Simpson

  Believe, Idaho, Land

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• 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

  Insane, Hollywood, Lunatic Asylums

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• Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

  John Garamendi

  Yellowstone, Land, House

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• We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Work, Bridges, Literature

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• If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Hope, Inspirational Sports

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• I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

  Mike Murdock

  Work, Failure, Preparation

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• I know that many of you do wear such a cross of Christ, not in any ostentatious way, not in a way that might harm you at your work or recreation, but a simple indication that you value the role of Jesus Christ in the history of the world, that you are trying to live by Christ's standards in your own daily life.

  Keith O'Brien

  Jesus, Simple, Trying

  "Catholic cardinal calls on Christians to wear their crosses every day" by Damien Pearse, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2012.

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• Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

  Robert Orben

  Inspirational, Funny, Good Morning

  "Hitting Your Peak: Financial Strength" by Ryan Murphy, www.askmen.com.

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• Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

  Bobby Orr

  Sports, Fun, Memories

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• Ron Swanson is more than the MVP of the 'Parks and Recreation' squad, more than just the funniest character on TV - he's the perfect depiction of aggrieved American manhood at the twilight of the empire.

  Rob Sheffield

  Twilight, Character, Mvp

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• The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Crush, Spiritual, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.389, Penguin

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• This habit of reading, I make bold to tell you, is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. It lasts when all other pleasures fade. It will support you when all other recreations are gone. It will last until your death. It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live.

  Anthony Trollope

  Reading, Support You, Long

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• Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.

  Dean Koontz

  Fun, Boys, Larks

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.288, Bantam

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• Developing Christlike attributes in our lives is not an easy task, especially when we move away from generalities and abstractions and begin to deal with real life. The test comes in practicing what we proclaim. The reality check comes when Christlike attributes need to become visible in our lives—as husband or wife, as father or mother, as son or daughter, in our friendships, in our employment, in our business, and in our recreation. We can recognize our growth, as can those around us, as we gradually increase our capacity to 'act in all holiness before [Him]' (D&C 43:9).

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• Never show anger at slight,Tell nothing.Earn Respect from everyone by deeds,not Words.Respect the members of your Blood Family.Gambling was Recreation,Not a way to earn a Living.Love your Father,your Mother, your Sister but beware of Loving any other Woman than your Wife.And a Wife was a woman who bore your Children.And once that happened to You,your Life was Forfeit to give them their daily bread

  Mario Puzo

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.

  Spider Robinson

  Dirty, Tired, Sunday

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• We're going jogging." "I don't run for recreation. I run when someone's after me with a weapon." "That can be arranged.

  Karen Chance

  Running, Jogging, Weapons

  Karen Chance (2011). “Cassie Palmer Novels 1-5”, p.902, Penguin

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