Recreation Quotes

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come.

In itself and in its consequences the life of leisure is beautiful and ennobling in all civilised men's eyes.

Recreation was important because we didn't have any. Here we were a water district and growing by leaps and bounds. It was too large to be governed by a county commission.
Paul Adams

The lands to be protected by this deal will protect water quality and air quality and will provide recreation opportunities in a fast-growing state.
Bill Holman

It's a chance to show our recreational activities in winter because a lot of people stay around home.
Dave Richards

The main thing we want to do is give them clean clothes, good, hot meals and a place for recreation.
Dave Scott

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
Stephen Ambrose

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
James A. Michener

For the one who is moderate in eating, recreation, working, sleeping, and waking, this yoga [of meditation] destroys [all] sorrow.

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Playing snooker gives you firm hands and helps to build up character. It is the ideal recreation for dedicated nuns.
Archbishop Luigi Barbarito

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

This could open up any part of the town to the uses permitted in the resort/recreational development zone. It would be like opening Pandora's Box.
Dave Ertsgard

Have you known how to take rest? You have done more than he who hath taken empires and cities.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald Brenan

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Recreational users should be worried. Breathing that dust is not good.
Greg Mello

Ballins not a hobby, its my occupation

The plan is to purchase the land and use the passive water as part of a recreation area.
Mayor Jerre Van Hoose

Life lived amidst tension and busyness needs leisure. Leisure that recreates and renews. Leisure should be a time to think new thoughts, not ponder old ills.
C. Neil Strait







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