Top 100 Playground Quotes
#1. Death's playground, that thing is fast,
K.F. Breene
#3. I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.
Richard Coyle
#4. 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
#5. The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride ...
Pete Munro
#6. 'Helter-Skelter' was the motive for the murders. Manson borrowed that term from a Beatles song on the 'White Album.' In England, helter-skelter is a playground ride. To Manson, helter-skelter meant a war between whites and blacks that the Beatles were in favor of.
Vincent Bugliosi
#7. Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my ... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.
Jason Kidd
#8. One time, as the cold wind blew and she kept watch over the playground, Aomame realized she believed in God. It was a sudden discovery, like finding, with the soles of your feet, solid ground beneath the mud.
Haruki Murakami
#9. The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny.
Edward Boyden
#10. Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
Shania Twain
#11. She'd had her way, and had the top
the third time
informing him he was her 'own private playground'.
Karen Marie Moning
#12. I'm old enough to remember when a social network was called a school playground.
Chris Geiger
#13. Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.
Jaeda DeWalt
#14. If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking.
Tyler Hamilton
#16. Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#17. Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
Billy Bob Thornton
#18. She needed him. More than just his blood or the pleasure he offered with his playground of a body, she needed him - and that was far more terrifying than becoming a blood sucking monster.
Marissa Clarke
#19. Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics.
Michael Steele
#20. Oh yeah, and she was a woman. There wasn't a chance in all Death's playground that she would fit into this crowd.
K.F. Breene
#21. Fantasy is the playground of the mind.
Play hard.
Play often.
Read.
Roh Morgon
#22. As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
Eberhard Weber
#23. The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.
Tim Winton
#24. To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#25. A conscious mind is the playground for thoughts and ideas and the ultimate source of personal philosophy.
Debasish Mridha
#26. God promises no easy life or days without troubles, trials, difficulties, and temptations. He never promises that life will be perfect. He does not call His children to a playground, but to a battleground.
Billy Graham
#27. Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.
Magic Johnson
#28. Life is a gift for the wise, a playground for the foolish, a heaven for the rich, and a hell for the poor.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#29. After the other day at the playground, I wasn't sure if you would want to talk to me or not,' Drew said, his eyes serious. 'What made you change your mind?'
'You were throwing pinecones at my door.' I laughed at how ridiculous it sounded. 'I should be irritated at you, but it was kind of cute.
Michelle Madow
#30. The world is a playground, and death is the night.
Rumi
#31. And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.
Michael Haneke
#32. 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
#33. ...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have.
Soojung Jo
#34. That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light.
Sebastian Thrun
#35. Yet among all the distractions and diversions of a planet which now seemed well on the way to becoming one vast playground, there were some who still found time to repeat an ancient and never-answered question:
"Where do we go from here?
Arthur C. Clarke
#36. As someone who makes his living as an actor, my routine varies almost every day. There are weeks I'm working and weeks I'm not. People think it must be great to have all that time off, but you'd be surprised how quickly that grass would become greener. The idle brain is the devil's playground.
Eric Lange
#37. Sits on playground bench. Watches kid 1. Looks around for kid 2. Panics. Sees kid 2. Looks for kid 1. Panics. Sees kid 1. Looks for kid 2. Panics.
Kate Hall
#38. I was always a very quirky kid. I remember very early like fourth or fifth grade doing pratfalls to make my friends laugh, like falling on the ground on the playground and doing like bits and characters.
Busy Philipps
#40. Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life.
Susan Orlean
#41. I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
#42. In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.
Sue Townsend
#43. He said very little, but his eyes were eloquent; the clutch of his arms was eloquent. He was the playground of unspeakable emotions. These, you know, were real Magics.
H.G.Wells
#44. Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.
Helen Mirren
#45. Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.
Neil Gaiman
#46. Just because we're adults doesn't mean we should grow up! The world's a playground for us, Melody, and I for one intend to play!
S.R. Crawford
#47. I'm excited to work with SCARPA because it's opened up a whole new playground to me as an athlete.
Lynsey Dyer
#48. From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance.
Andrea Hirata
#49. 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
#50. I started out playing traditional jazz, and I still do: I love standards, I love the music. But it must move on, and it must live and breathe, and continue to grow, and continue to change, and continue to mesh with other music - all that kind of stuff. Jazz can be on the playground too, you know.
Robert Glasper
#51. I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
Alastair Reynolds
#52. My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day.
Michael Gambon
#53. Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love.
Barbara Jordan
#54. If love is a battlefield than lust is a playground ... Meet me on the swings?
Amanda Rose
#56. Sophistication isn't what you wear or who you know, or pushing people down to get you where you want to go ... soon your gonna find stealing other people toys on the playground won't make you many friends ...
Taylor Swift
#57. At playtime she twirled and spun across the playground so fast that none of the little boys in her class could catch her and they were all very cross.
Katharine Holabird
#58. You are the playground of which I have free reign.
Nenia Campbell
#59. The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
J.L. Bond
#60. For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality
Ryohgo Narita
#61. I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground.
Sarah Hall
#62. Those who seek enjoyment in life are the ones that think that the world is a playground.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#63. Lagos was built from blood and sweat, and raw ambition. Abuja was designed as a playground for the rich.
A. Igoni Barrett
#64. From a very early age, my wife and I told our son that there are times and places for everything. I told him, look, when you're in class, you have to be quiet and listen to your teacher, but when you go out to the playground, you can scream and be silly.
Mark Hoppus
#65. Harper Grayson had seen lots of people burn on TV, everyone had, but the first person she saw burn for real was in the playground behind the school. Schools
Joe Hill
#66. I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.
John Francis Daley
#67. When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.
Ellen Hollman
#68. Instincts that worked in the ancestral environment were not sufficient in a world that regulated playground visits and allowed choices between tofu and pizza.
Graeme Simsion
#69. 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.
Maya Lin
#70. 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
#71. An idle mind is just a playground, a place to roam and play and discover.
Dina Santorelli
#72. I'd violated the primary rule of junior and senior high
don't get people talking about you too much. This was wearing the brightest shirt on the playground. This was Mom giving you a kiss in the lobby.
Darin Strauss
#73. When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground.
Marion Cotillard
#74. It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
Diana Ross
#75. Driving home I see the playground but it's all wrong, the swings are on the opposite side. "Oh, Jack, that's a different one," says Grandma. There's playgrounds in every town." Lots of the world seems to be a repeat.
Emma Donoghue
#76. 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
#77. This is your Father's world. He has your back, He goes before you, He is the rock beneath you and your heavenly Father above. This is your Father's world, and He has created this wide world is as a playground for His children.
Peter Leithart
#78. 'True Blood' is truly a playground. You get to go in and just let loose and completely just have fun and play around. There is so much freedom on set.
Lindsay Pulsipher
#79. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree.
Ray Bradbury
#80. For a child, everywhere is a playground; for an adult, it is the same, only the plays are different!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#81. I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
Patrick Ewing
#82. 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
#83. I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'.
John Wozniak
#84. I'll murder a basketful of kittens in a playground full of kindergarteners if it will send me to hell to be by your side.
Amber Kell
#85. Yet Burzee has its inhabitants - for all this. Nature peopled it in the beginning with Fairies, Knooks, Ryls and Nymphs. As long as the Forest stands it will be a home, a refuge and a playground to these sweet immortals, who revel undisturbed in its depths.
L. Frank Baum
#86. Don't mistake activity for achievement. To produce results, tasks must be well organized and properly executed; otherwise, it's no different from children running around the playground - everybody is doing something, but nothing is being done; lots of activity, no achievement.
John Wooden
#87. The world was a playground for the foolish and an exalted wonder of love and magic for the wise.
Don Bradley
#88. Clippy got that pervert-on-the-playground look again..
Rob Reid
#89. Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
Todd Gitlin
#90. Everything in its time, and timing is God's playground. Trust me, being surprised by everything is so much better than needing to control everything.
Wm. Paul Young
#91. Toddlers need to get off the soccer field and onto the playground. Children need to get out of the gym and into neighborhood stickball games. We need to give kids room to create their own rules, set their own terms, and move their bodies in their own ways.
Darell Hammond
#92. It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
Logan Lerman
#93. I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything.
Ezra Furman
#94. Seven men to beat up one who was tied and defenceless. Seven men who would have no intestines by the time dawn crested. This was a playground scuffle.
Pepper Winters
#95. The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'
Emma McLaughlin
#96. I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone says away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)
Lynne Truss
#97. As a kid, I had the worst mile time ever. Our gym teacher made us run the mile a few times a year for something called the Presidential Fitness Test. I'd huff and puff and wonder why the hell President Bush cared how fast I could run laps around the playground. I always came in dead last.
Miranda Kenneally
#98. How could the war have any semblance of reality when you found yourself sitting under a plane tree in a playground, in the provincial calm of an early afternoon?
Patrick Modiano
#99. Net-a-porter is an environment where a woman can really indulge, browsing through more than 160 brands in our fashion playground.
Natalie Massenet
#100. They say sex is all in the mind. That's not strictly true. Desire begins in the mind but is satisfied in the body. The erotic understands this. The erotic is the completion of a mental need played out on a physical playground. Once you go erotic you never go back.
Chloe Thurlow
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