Top 90 Quotes About Playgrounds
#1. Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard.
Darell Hammond
#2. You walk into the playgrounds in Shanghai and Beijing, and you see youngsters who are shorter, shaking and baking and having attitude. And Jeremy Lin is going to inspire all of them.
David Stern
#3. Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
Darell Hammond
#4. Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race.
Theodore Roosevelt
#5. As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.
Darell Hammond
#6. Wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'
As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#7. I don't know about you, but I find the idea of a school at night time - imagining the silent classrooms in total darkness and the playgrounds left lonesome and bare - creepily peculiar.
Elizabeth Newton
#8. I spent a lot of time bowling as a kid, mostly because I grew up in bowling alleys. They were kind of my playgrounds.
Chris Hardwick
#9. 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
#10. Avoid retirement playgrounds like poison, because that's exactly what they are.
Linda Goodman
#11. The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
Harry Seidler
#12. Studies of children in playgrounds with both green areas and manufactured play areas found that children engaged in more creative forms of play in the green areas.
Richard Louv
#13. If I get a script that's set in the jungle it goes to the bottom of the pile because I don't think the playgrounds are going to be very good there! I'm really aware of how lucky I am but I have the kind of job where I can bring my child to work.
Kate Beckinsale
#14. How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#15. During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides.
Darell Hammond
#16. Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.
Jake Barton
#17. The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce, we could use our boulevards for children's playgrounds.
Will Rogers
#18. The Bad Man isn't lurking in playgrounds, kiddies. He lives in your house.
Harlan Coben
#19. Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
Darell Hammond
#20. There were no fear of death in children's eyes because they had seen hanging, stoning to death and chopping heads in playgrounds and parks.
M.F. Moonzajer
#21. All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. It's a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.
Atticus Shaffer
#22. I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use
Imran Khan
#23. 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
#24. 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.
#25. As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. As public pools and playgrounds decay, the better-off buy memberships in private tennis and swimming clubs. As public hospitals decline, the well-off pay premium rates for private care.
Robert Reich
#26. Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
#27. Empires come and go, but playgrounds last forever.
Paul Tayyar
#28. I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.
Dominic West
#29. At KaBOOM! we are crowd-sourcing a nationwide Map of Play that uses GIS data and user rankings to identify where the engaging playgrounds are located, but more importantly, where they are not.
Darell Hammond
#30. Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
Robert Cormier
#31. I believe there are monsters born in the world to human parents
John Steinbeck
#33. Time cannot do to ordinary things what we timelessly do to one another.
William H Gass
#34. My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right.
Pat Conroy
#36. The enemy you flee is not exterior to yourself
John Barth
#38. Don't hesitate to insulate your house, especially the floor.
Padgett Powell
#39. When you're really cute that's all you have to be, you make a career out of it. someone asks you what you do, you say, 'nothing. i'm cute.
Elmore Leonard
#40. Dancing was the only friend I had. The practicing room was my playground.
Minzy
#41. Alternate the theories you entertain about all things.
Padgett Powell
#42. Babies don't know anything but nipples and lullabies. they splash out looks of wonder on anybody whether they merit it or not.
Daniel Woodrell
#43. most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.
Jim Dodge
#44. I'd hate to read all these books ... that much reading could put your eyes out.
Larry McMurtry
#45. Build an inner place to protect your truth.
Richard Bach
#46. A reformer is a man who sees the world's superficial ills and sets out to cure them by aggravating the more basic ills.
Fernando Pessoa
#49. I always enjoy the battle sequences. It's like going to the playground.
Drew Roy
#50. Don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books. just do what i do and you'll be all right.
William Gay
#51. fate is the ultimate preexisting condition.
Mark Leyner
#52. Inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.
Fernando Pessoa
#53. A man should always observe fanaticism when he gets the chance.
Charles Willeford
#54. Today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything.
Padgett Powell
#55. The new world may be in fact a very, very, very, very old world.
Padgett Powell
#56. Probably horse doo had a name in french also, but that didn't mean god intended for you to eat it.
Richard Russo
#57. It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
William H Gass
#58. All over the world ... the past was being wiped out by condominiums.
Elmore Leonard
#60. Sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.
William Faulkner
#61. On the road halfway between faith and criticism stands the inn of reason. reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith, since to understand presupposes that there's something understandable.
Fernando Pessoa
#62. It's better to build a tight chicken coop than a shoddy courthouse.
William Faulkner
#63. There's no need for algebra where two and two make five.
Thomas Wolfe
#64. Make life your playground, not your battlefield.
Ormond McGill
#65. A wife's faithful to her husband, subject to him. It's in the bible.
Elmore Leonard
#66. it's hard enough separating the good stuff from the bullshit without adding to the whole mess by wanting to know what you ain't gonna know.
Jim Dodge
#67. Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
Jane Smiley
#69. Ordinary people can never fall over the walls, because they never dare climb high enough to see what is beyond the walls.
B. Traven
#71. god, they say, is love. and some one's got to pass the word.
Richard Farina
#74. we remain children as long as we feel the urge to keep crossing this border and to learn.
Peter Nadas
#75. People are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.
Fredric Brown
#76. you're a mess now, but you'll be laughing about it in fifty years.
Jim Dodge
#78. Shoot up everything except a school or a playground
Birdman
#79. Do you want me to shoot thee, ingles? ... quieres? it is nothing.
Ernest Hemingway,
#80. The zombies, after all, were pretty slow to appreciate someone other than themselves, and they had been schooled not to denigrate the different.
Mrs. Hollingsworth's Men
Padgett Powell
#81. The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.
Donald Barthelme
#82. i ain't got the energy to argue. i'm an old man and i got to take a shit.
Johnny Shaw
#83. Make yourself invisible, or get busy with something.
Robert Walser
#85. my foolishness had me believe that i was the story, and this bleak cold night merely its setting, but in fact my real story played itself out almost independently of me or, more precisely, occurred parallel to my own little adventures.
Peter Nadas
#86. there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.
C.J. Box
#87. In a new world behave in a new way as a new man. unhorse the conquistador.
Padgett Powell
#88. If one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.
David Markson
#89. Everybody he knew was going quietly mad from being tied on a leash that was too short.
Harry Crews
#90. you just had to be still and have faith, that was the main thing.
Jim Dodge
