Quotes about Playground

I sing and play guitar in the band 'Marcy Playground'. Votes: 3

Playground of Dreams supports kids in discovering and achieving their own magnificence, that unique quality that only they have, fostering it, watering it, and watching it sprout! Votes: 3

During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides. Votes: 3

Our Dream Playground' is a new online project planner designed to help you build the playground of your dreams. It's a free resource, brought to you 'KaBOOM!,' offering step-by-step instructions to help you bring play to the kids in your community. Votes: 3

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent. Votes: 2

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.' Votes: 2

My playground is full of moonshine, mason jars, beer bottles, and bonfires. Votes: 1

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings. Votes: 1

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. Votes: 1

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks. Votes: 1

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skiing, cycling, climbing, and hiking. Votes: 1

Social media is about friending someone so they'll invite you to a party or get you a job. If that's the work, Snapchat is the playground. Votes: 1

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground. Votes: 1

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents. Votes: 1

I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.' Votes: 1

Sometimes, the Internet can feel like a middle-school playground populated by brats in ski masks who name-call and taunt with the fake bravery of the anonymous. But sometimes - thank goodness - it's nicer than real life. Votes: 1

We call our little girls bossy. Go to a playground; little girls get called bossy all the time - a word that's almost never used for boys - and that leads directly to the problems women face in the workforce. Votes: 1

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground. Votes: 1

I grew up watching 'Superman.' As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn't diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully. Votes: 1

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl. Votes: 1

Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost. Votes: 1

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world. Votes: 1

I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful. Votes: 1

From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. Votes: 1

As a kid, you obviously dream of being a professional footballer. I would watch players like Ronaldo of Brazil and pretend to be him in the playground. But I don't think about trying to become one of the best in the world or anything like that. I just play football. Votes: 1

I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions. Votes: 1

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage. Votes: 1

We lived near a playground that had four baseball diamonds on it, and when I got to be 11, 12 years old, I was always over at the ballpark practicing or playing or doing something pertaining to baseball. And when I wasn't doing that, I was bouncing a rubber ball off the steps of my front porch at home. Votes: 1

Twitter is the Devil's playground. Votes: 0

dreams are your heart's playground. Votes: 0

The world is a playground -Indian Votes: 0

A guilty conscience is jealousy's playground. Votes: 0

New York City is my playground. Votes: 0

Radio is the playground of coincidence. Votes: 0

The idle brain is the devil's playground. Votes: 0

Make life your playground, not your battlefield. Votes: 0

Cinema is not a playground for Sharon Stone. Votes: 0

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground. Votes: 0

I have always had the sea as my playground. Votes: 0

As a child, the paddy field was my playground. Votes: 0

Make your race a playground, not a proving ground. Votes: 0

Shoot up everything except a school or a playground Votes: 0

We are all the playground of angels and demons. Votes: 0

The world is a playground, and death is the night. Votes: 0

Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition. Votes: 0

I haven't played Doctor Who since I was 9 on the playground. Votes: 0

I always enjoy the battle sequences. It's like going to the playground. Votes: 0

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny. Votes: 0

For us, the playground of fiction is just as important as reality Votes: 0

My media considers the left media to be the bullies on the playground. Votes: 0

Dancing was the only friend I had. The practicing room was my playground. Votes: 0

Life is a playground and a laboratory; avoid neglecting one for the other. Votes: 0

In reading, the mind is, in fact, only the playground of another's thoughts. Votes: 0

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings Votes: 0

Spiritual Christians look upon the world not as a playground but as a battleground. Votes: 0

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal Votes: 0

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore. Votes: 0

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground. Votes: 0

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. Votes: 0

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground. Votes: 0

Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world's your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered? Votes: 0

Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family Votes: 0

Look, not everybody plays well with each other on the playground. I get that, that's politics. Votes: 0

I think I gravitate towards rock 'n' roll as a playground where I can say anything. Votes: 0

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park. Votes: 0

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. Votes: 0

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do. Votes: 0

Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe? Votes: 0

I definitely had an advantage growing up in New York. It's different playing on a New York playground. Votes: 0

The evolution of playground equipment has been to this ever safer, less challenging, less interesting assemblies of equipment. Votes: 0

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism. Votes: 0

I'm excited to work with SCARPA because it's opened up a whole new playground to me as an athlete. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music. Votes: 0

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess's playground Votes: 0

[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. Votes: 0

I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off. Votes: 0

When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way. Votes: 0

New York's a big playground. I have a bike, and I'm really into just being outside. Especially in the summertime. Votes: 0

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides. Votes: 0

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive. Votes: 0

Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style. Votes: 0

Every boy needs a role model that he can be proud of and talk about to the other kids in the playground. Votes: 0

I try to keep it positive and play it cool, shoot up the playground and tell the kids to stay in school. Votes: 0

That's what Google taught me. Aim higher. Udacity is my playground - to radically experiment and find out. I've seen the light. Votes: 0

The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride... Votes: 0

Basketball is my refuge, my sanctuary. I go back to being a kid on the playground. When I get here, it's all good. Votes: 0

It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has. Votes: 0

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder. Votes: 0

The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. Votes: 0

When I was little, there were so many people in my house. Everyone was enjoying themselves, rehearsing, having fun. It was like a playground. Votes: 0

Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max Votes: 0

My only memories of school are of being beaten, of being hit in the playground, of masters poking their fingers in my chest all day. Votes: 0

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time. Votes: 0

My family had a business where they worked with gravestones, and I remember growing up and playing in cemeteries like it was a normal playground. Votes: 0

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees. Votes: 0

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. Votes: 0

Lots of things were there [in the seventies], in the social experience, but not quite named, lurking like a stranger on the edge of the playground. Votes: 0

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town. Votes: 0

The Pumpkins love rock-and-roll, we absolutely love it, but we also think it's a flatulent, ego-serving kiddie playground. You can have your cake and eat it too. Votes: 0

There's no way running on a beach or at some high school playground that you're going to get in football shape like you do when you practice. Votes: 0

There's this total manwhore phenomenon happening, where even the geeks are player now. It's like Manhattan is this giant playground and guys want to keep playing forever. Votes: 0

Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales. Votes: 0

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground. Votes: 0

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence. Votes: 0

Sometimes I would bring some of my music to the school and perform on the playground, and they'd think, "There goes Patrick, trying to entertain everyone as usual." Votes: 0

'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.' Votes: 0

Education is very important, and the botanical garden is the place to do that. I grew up in a semi-rural area and learned from that being my playground. Votes: 0

Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.' Votes: 0

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. Votes: 0

I started writing stories in sixth grade. But writing wasn't cool, like being good at sports, or being part of the in crowd, or winning fights on the playground. Votes: 0

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers. Votes: 0

I love acting. It's my playground, it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting. Votes: 0

In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom. Votes: 0

Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story. Votes: 0

I was growing up in the New Wave period, but that wasn't allowed in school. I remember moments when they wouldn't let four people dressed in black stand together on the playground. Votes: 0

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. Votes: 0

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great. Votes: 0

On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics. Votes: 0

I was brought up in the north of England, which is probably no rougher than anywhere else, but I remember as a child being kind of mesmerized by girls fighting on the playground. Votes: 0

Just remember the world is not a playground but a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday but an education. One eternal lesson for us all: to teach us how better we should love. Votes: 0

I've been fascinated by music for as long as I can remember. I was the kid on the playground in the third grade who would tell other kids about Paul Simon or Depeche Mode. Votes: 0

The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front yard and a beautiful playground for families and visitors. It should be clean, safe, and inviting. Votes: 0

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. Votes: 0

I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have. Votes: 0

...I am about eight years old when I first become aware of being other--foreign, outside, separate. Because this lesson comes from my own family, it resonates deeper and truer than playground taunts ever have. Votes: 0

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys. Votes: 0

The problem when someone feels burned out, bored, unchallenged, or stifled by their work is not the job itself but rather the environment and playground rules given to them to do the job at hand. Votes: 0

I was different unique and always happy. At school this attracted playground harassment. Nowadays, while I remain effervescent, quicker to perceive enmity I reserve my warmest touches and smiles for those who smolder with envy. Votes: 0