Recess Time Quotes

#1. The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

Jack Kerouac

#2. When, as a woman, you make yourself the work of art, and when you are then what everyone looks at, then whatever else, you aren't alone.

Claire Messud

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

Robert Byrd

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

Chris Gabrieli

#5. Bacon is clearly a food made by the Nazis to fatten up Americans. It has no nutritional value, is full of fat, sodium, and nitrates, and is a pathetic type of consumable made from the noblest of creatures.

Andy Rooney

#6. I don't believe in classes where students criticize each other's manuscripts. Such criticism is generally composed in equal parts of ignorance, flattery, and spite. It's the blind leading the blind, and it can be dangerous. A teacher who tries to impose a way of writing on you can be dangerous, too.

Flannery O'Connor

#7. Falling in love is like that: you always feel like a dumbass at some point, even if you know it's coming - it's unavoidable.

Kevin Hearne

#8. The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Robert H. Goddard

#9. A closeness that felt sorry and cheap the minute she walked out of the room.

Don DeLillo

#10. I've always felt that stylists such as you have in America are ashamed of a car and are preoccupied with making it look like something else, like a submarine or an airship ... As an engineer, I revolt against this.

Alec Issigonis

#11. I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis. And I had a golden retriever behave like one.

N.D. Wilson

#12. You'd kill yourself for regognition, kill yourself to never ever stop. You broke there mirror, you're turning into something your not.

Radiohead

#13. Nate had realized a while back that nobody talked with each other at such gatherings. People just took turns talking at each other. He never got the sense anyone was listening.

Peter Clines

#14. When there is fear of failure, there will be failure.

George S. Patton

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.

Rita Rudner

#19. 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

#20. His troops routed the militia and gained possession of the American guns, one of which was a brass howitzer that carried the inscription "taken at the surrender of York town 1781.

Donald R. Hickey

#21. 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

#22. 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