Top 290 Recreation Quotes & Sayings

The recreation of Neanderthals would be mainly a question of societal risk avoidance.

Conservation must become before recreation.

The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.

Photography is my one recreation and I think it should be done well.

To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

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

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

. . . what humanity most desperately needs is not the creation of new worlds but the recreation in terms of human comprehension of the world we have -- and it is for this reason that arts go on for generation to generation in spite of the fact that Phidias has already carved and Homer has already sung. The creation, we are informed, was accomplished in seven days with Sunday off, but the recreation will never be accomplished because it is always accomplished anew for each generation of living men.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie.

The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative man's recreation," introducing him profitably to woods and water, so the fruit of the naturalist's observations is not in new genera or species, but in new contemplations still, and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black and white movie.

I like to write music for fun. That's my hustle, my grind, my means of stayin' alive, and it's also my recreation, too.

The Church gives more time, thought, and money to recreation and sport than to prayer.

Art is both creation and recreation.

Music's only purpose should be for the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit.

It seems like everyone around me has recreation going on. I'm the only one working, I guess.

Music furnishes a delightful recreation for the hours of respite from the cares of the day, and lasts us through life.

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who lack vitality. There is a vague impression that the world would be a good world if it were only happy, that it would be happy if it were amused, and that it would be amused if plenty of artificial recreation - that recreation for which we are now told every community stands responsible - were provided for its entertainment.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

We Americans are a funny people. We say that our favorite outdoor recreation is 'walking for pleasure' (or so it is reported in Outdoor Recreation Trends). Yet the average housewife will jump into the family car-or one of them-to go around the corner for a bottle of aspirin and a television guide. The businessman who walks four blocks to an appointment is the exception rather than the rule.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people make for themselves determines the kind of people they become and the kind of society they build.

Art is both creation and recreation. Of the two ideas, I think art as recreation or as sheer play of the human spirit is more important.

If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second.

My favorite show is 'Parks and Recreation.'

The best recreation is to do good.

One of my earliest childhood memories is my father taking me in the evening to Samena Swim & Recreation Club in Bellevue.

Chess is only a recreation and not an occupation.

Pleasure is far sweeter as a recreation than a business.

Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

Men cannot labor on always. They must have recreation.

Can we all admit that 'Parks and Recreation' is horrible? Is this something we would all know, but don't say? Maybe everything should not be improv'd.

Families must spend more time together in work and recreation.

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation.

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens.

The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.

Football is like recreation for me. I'd sooner be playing five-a-side than going out to eat or shopping.

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair.

Life is best enjoyed when time periods are evenly divided between labor, sleep, and recreation...all people should spend one-third of their time in recreation which is rebuilding, voluntary activity, never idleness.

A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

A recreation is not the same as a remix. A recreation has a new element added to it. There are new lyrics added to it. A new composition is introduced within the existing one and I feel that's tougher to do.

The detective story is the normal recreation of noble minds.

If I could go upstairs and write every day, I would be happy. I don't need recreation.

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character.

Translation is an act of recreation.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

Obama says his recreation consists of reading the Constitution... looking for a loophole.

Work ... has always been my favorite form of recreation.

The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.

I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do 'Parks and Recreation'; a big fun character.

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these intervals. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains.

When you're willing to play poker for two days and lose millions of dollars, it's no longer recreation. It's taking over.

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

Drugs shouldn't be used for recreation although they can be, but ultimately the point of psychedelics is to put you in touch with the powers of the universe.