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  • 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.

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

    Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.109, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Garden   Play   Backyards  
  • The main reason, Your Holiness, of why we are here today, is it is not the business of the church to stray from the field of faith and morals and wonder into the playground that is science... it is not the business of the church to pronounce on science.

  • Belief, confidence in yourself.. the world’s your playground. Limitless. My question is... will you be remembered?

  • I would visit Vegas every year when I was a kid. Vegas, to a kid, is a playground, as much as it is to adults. I discovered the magic store in a hotel and would spend hours and hours in there.

    Kids   Years   Vegas  
  • I've hung out at dozens of playgrounds, bored out of my mind, with not even a look of comfort from disapproving mothers all around me. Either they think I'm a pedophile or a deadbeat dad. That's what I get for being a single dad - suspicious looks at the playground.

    Mother   Dad   Thinking  
    "Down to The Wire with Dominic West". Intervie with Sara Bliss, www.esquire.com. December 31, 2006.
  • And I don't believe that children are innocent. In fact, no one seriously believes that. Just go to a playground and watch the kids playing in the sandbox! The romantic notion of the sweet child is simply the parents projecting their own wishes.

  • Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.

    Dream   Writing   Kids  
  • You can't assume if you do something contentious that people will be on your side. The moment violence enters the story, the story changes. Then the question is, "How do you face up to violence?" And then you have to have a no-compromise position. And this is quite simply a lesson we learn in the school playground.

    Source: www.teachingbooks.net
  • I will protect your tax money! It won't be spent on Prime Minister and Governor houses. InshALLAH the day PTI government comes in power these walls of governor houses will be brought down. We will break these walls and make libraries and playgrounds for the public to use

    Wall   Government   House  
  • 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.

    Girl   Children   Boys  
  • Build an inner place to protect your truth.

  • 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.

    Long   Confusing   Devil  
  • 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.

    Player   Guy   Forever  
    Susane Colasanti (2009). “Take Me There”, p.21, Penguin
  • For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.

    Self   People   Giving  
    "Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates". Book by Tom Robbins, 2000.
  • The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

    Spiritual   Nature   Sea  
    Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.18, Pan Macmillan
  • Make your race a playground, not a proving ground.

  • All I know, is that I feel extremely blessed to be on TV. Its a hard job, but real life is harder. Truth be told, playgrounds can be war zones.

    Jobs   Real   War  
  • Fashion is a playground up until a certain age. But then you have to find your own signature and your own style.

    Fashion   Style   Age  
  • I remember coming on my first set and it being a playground of things I wanted to ask questions about: cameras and lenses and what the lenses do, what's the focus puller doing and how does that work? Why is there less margin for error when there's less light? I was always asking questions and watching directors closely.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I was always the kid at the side of the playground, looking at the other kids. I didn't know how to get into the group. I was quiet and bookish, a bit of a geek. I was into orienteering when my friends were out clubbing.

    Kids   Sides   Groups  
  • I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.

  • But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playground swings for the rest of us.

  • The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. 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.

    Art   Children   Fun  
    "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, 1973.
  • That's why we feel so disoriented, irritated even, when these touchstones from our past are altered. We don't like it when our hometown changes, even in small ways. It's unsettling. The playground! It used to be right here, I swear. Mess with our hometown, and you're messing with our past, with who we are. Nobody likes that.

    Past   Way   Likes  
  • The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride.

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

    Fun   People   House  
  • My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

    Girl   Mother   Seductive  
  • 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.

    Source: www.teemingbrain.com
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