Quotes About Recess

#1. Dearest - every person is a prison and also a recess.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel.

Dennis Vickers

#3. if you think the corporations are evil and it's the government's job to make them moral, you're deflecting your own responsibility to civics. You're making the government your big brother and the corporation the evil bully your big brother's supposed to keep off you at recess.

David Foster Wallace

#4. Priests and nuns have had their chance with me. I'm still wearing the scars to prove it.) And so, during the weekend recess, the Meiers invited Cullivan to eat Sunday dinner with the prisoner in his cell. The opportunity to entertain his friend, play host

Truman Capote

#5. No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.

Arnold Bennett

#6. My body is on fire, aching and clawing at me to set it free. It wants to come out to play alright. It wants recess with Ian. He's everything I'm not, and I love it.

Scarlet Wolfe

#7. Proust's is a long book, though, water- skiing permitting, you could get through it in the summer recess

Alan Bennett

#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. Since my trips to Earth, I've only managed to assemble a few basics facts about humans, condensing them in to four, overall points: kids got Reese's, teens got recess, adults got recessions, and seniors got receding.

Tai

#10. The US is safest when Congress is in recess.

Will Rogers

#11. We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#13. All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces ... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

Alberto Giacometti

#14. ...my ability to trust had been shattered into splinters, its fragmented shards slicing through every darkened recess of my mind, his absolution won my over all the more.

Jake Wood

#15. 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

#16. And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#17. During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions.

Darell Hammond

#18. There were some ragged children in another corner; and in a small recess, opposite the door, there lay upon the ground, something covered with an old blanket.

Charles Dickens

#19. Food comas - known as postprandial somnolence by people who liked to get bean up during recess - are fine when you're relaxing with friends or family, but they're a major setback when you have exams and papers to write.

Stefanie Weisman

#20. We used to stay inside for recess
because outside was worse

Shane Koyczan

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

Jim Rogers

#22. Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?

Robert Byrd

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

Chris Gabrieli

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. Childhood is not all candy stores and recess; it's frustrations and confusions, too.

Chelsey Philpot

#27. Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.

Melissa Leo

#28. 6th grade. My dog, Katie, is hit by a car and killed. A mean girl during recess says it committed suicide because it didn't love me. I cry and swear revenge on mankind.

Eugene Mirman

#29. What have people ever done for me? People don't want my help. People called me a faggot and threw me in a Dumpster at recess when I was in fifth grade because my pants were pressed." "Well,

Lev Grossman

#30. Normally Felicity liked to spend her recess holding the duty teacher's hand and tattling on kids who were breaking nitpicky safety rules like no climbing fences, no running up the slide, and no using the teeter-totter as a human catapult. - Zombiekins

Kevin Bolger

#31. The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action.

Leonard Boswell

#32. Success is not a process of accumulating wealth, building mass relationship or collecting things in excess, but developing, excelling, fostering and growing the happiness for self and others without recess to treat it as the life's progress.

Anuj

#33. The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.

William Penn

#34. 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

#35. Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

John Podhoretz

#36. 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

#37. In court, jurors are admonished by the judge at every recess not to discuss the case or form any opinions until the case is given to them for deliberations. Of course, there is no such limitation on the public.

Robert Shapiro

#38. My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart.

Ben Carson

#39. Collect yourself in His presence with the one purpose and intent of loving Him. Come to Him as one who is giving himself to God. Behold Him in the most inward recess of your spirit that you can find.

Gene Edwards

#40. Recess and lunch are the best.

Ty Simpkins

#41. It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?

Charles Bukowski

#42. What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number.

Jed Babbin

#43. Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character.

Alec Sulkin

#44. As a child, she'd always had what she imagined were fascinating thoughts, but didn't ever say them. Once, as a little girl, at recess, she thought that if she ran very fast at a pole and then caught it and swung quickly around, part of her would keep going, and she would become two girls.

Tao Lin

#45. The best thing about recess is that it doesn't matter if you are having trouble paying attention in class
suddenly, you are paying attention to a million things on the playground.

Lenore Look

#46. I have observed in my 30 years in Washington that when a President initiates a major policy speech on a controversial issue while Congress is in recess, it usually is because what he is advocating is indefensible and that he is seeking to minimize criticism.

Dana Rohrabacher

#47. With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it.

Jason Dolley

#48. 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

#49. When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.

Paul Weller

#50. 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

#51. Great, I'll continue this junior high bullshit and tell her that Ty. You got anything else I should whisper to her at recess? Take asked, pissed as all hell.

Kristen Ashley

#52. And she kissed me on the lips out of nowhere during recess one day while I was trying to read Huck Finn in the sandbox, and that was my first kiss, and later that day she dumped me because boys were gross.

John Green

#53. 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

#54. I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

Hillary Clinton

#55. 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

#56. Still, the question remained. Was he straitjacket strange or just go-off-by-yourself-at-recess-and-put-bugs-in-your-nose strange?

Clare Vanderpool

#57. I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him.

Colleen Houck

#58. I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.

David Souter

#59. The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave.

Charles Dickens

#60. I'm not really a computer guy. It's like recess. I'd rather be outside getting dirty in the sandbox.

Matt Barr

#61. I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.

Dichen Lachman

#62. She felt like the loser kid the teacher made everyone play with at recess.
-Hanna Marin

Sara Shepard

#63. Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

Richard Simmons

#64. Gasps erupted from his nostrils like grouse from a thicket, schoolboys onto a recess yard, grease spatters from frying bacon.

Dennis Vickers

#65. We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

Tony Benn

#66. I was a weirdo. I wasn't picked on or anything. And I wasn't smarter than the other kids; that's not why I didn't fit in. I've always had this weird anxiety. I hated recess. I didn't like field trips. Parties really stressed me out. And I had a very different sense of humour.

Jennifer Lawrence

#67. Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment.

Cynthia Lewis

#68. It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.

Zora Neale Hurston

#69. It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate.

Stephen Colbert

#70. When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that's what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies.

Ashley Benson

#71. I remember once my kid got in trouble for saying to his teacher, "What time is fucking recess?" and I remember thinking, "Now where would he fucking pick up something like that?

Dennis Miller

#72. The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.

Orson Scott Card

#73. There's no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle until the water clears otherwise it will taste sour. (paraphrased)

Patrick Rothfuss

#74. Abbesses' recesses are not for excesses!

Michael R. Burch

#75. The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.

Francois Mauriac