Quotes About Recreation And Leisure

#1. Every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Louise Erdrich

#2. He that will make good use of any part of his life must allow a large part of it to recreation.

John Locke

#3. Make thy recreation servant to thy business, lest thou become a slave to thy recreation.

Francis Quarles

#4. A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

James Russell Lowell

#5. You're so beautiful. I wish I'd seen you as a child. (Acheron)
You didn't miss much. I had buck teeth and stringy hair. (Kat)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.

Paulo Coelho

#7. Our ability to travel is a privilege. But it is also a choice. Money is time. Where do we spend out time? Wilderness is not my leisure or my recreation. It is my sanity.

Terry Tempest Williams

#8. Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

Winston S. Churchill

#9. The snake stood up for evil in the Garden.

Robert Frost

#10. The ultimate authority of my life is not the Bible; it is not confined between the covers of a book. It is not something written by men and frozen in time. It is not from a source outside myself. My ultimate authority is the divine voice in my own soul. Period.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. The civilization of the West, which was brilliant by virtue of its scientific perfection for a long time, and which subjugated the whole world with the products of this science to its states and nations, is now bankrupt and in decline.

Hassan Al-Banna

#12. When I was 20, political music was the uncoolest thing on earth.

Bjork

#13. It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

Terry Pratchett

#14. Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Paul Theroux

#15. There's no way I know, to get through the pain of a startup without belief that the mission really matters.

Sam Altman

#16. Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin.

David Letterman

#17. It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.

Arthur Wellesley

#18. I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

Pearl S. Buck

#19. Sometimes, the inessential is essential.

T.L. Rese

#20. The inside of his skull, it tasted like roses and barbed wire and butterflies. Switchblades and heroin and grassy green gardens.

Mercedes M. Yardley

#21. So there is a foreign intelligence purpose for every one of our FISA warrants.

Robert Mueller