Quotes About Recess In School

#1. I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.

Vesta Williams

#2. Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Alan Shepard

#3. How presumptuous of someone to think the world is interested in a half-dozen or eight or 10 of their kids.

Anne Nicol Gaylor

#4. At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.

Dan Hill

#5. I'm just looking for the best story being told by the best people and the best part that I can find. If those things add up, I want to be a part of it whether it's a studio film or, more likely in that instance, an independent film.

John Hawkes

#6. Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time.

Mary Gaitskill

#7. We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.

Darell Hammond

#8. If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

John Madden

#9. The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

E. M. Forster

#10. We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

John Conyers

#11. I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.

Steve Nash

#12. Heaven is always there for us; but this life ... this life is a gift to us.

C. JoyBell C.

#13. In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.

Russell Wilson

#14. We bumped into other silent lines of kids going in the same direction. We looked like we were much younger and our lines were headed to the cafeteria or recess or the carpool line. Or it could've been a fire drill. Except for the stone-faced police officers weaving between us with rifles.

Laura Anderson Kurk

#15. Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.

Chris Gabrieli

#16. Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.

Jim Rogers