If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
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We?re a shadow of ourselves, we really are. Police and fire are seen as essential services. If people ask me, I would say parks and recreation is an essential service.
Dannettee Shoemaker
Any progressive community needs to provide recreation for its citizens.
John Huisman
As long as the recreation department is satisfied, and the needs are met, that's fine with me. I understand the developer not wanting to put public recreation areas on a private site.
Ashley Hahn
This is not agricultural. It's clear he specifically purchased this place for recreation.
Gene Petersen
This is the beginning of a movement to encourage exercising, recreation and additional tourism into the city.
Shawn Rennecker
We are seeing more permit applications, park and recreation permits and building permits on Web sites.
Kevin Maloney
If anything falls victim initially it will probably be the parade. The Parks and Recreation Department pretty much runs the parade and does a phenomenal job, but they are going to be pulled from doing that.
Patrick Foster
That's what we call fire borrowing. We hate to do that cause we take money from recreation, range, watershed and wildlife programs.
Rose Davis
This heavy recreation use requires extra caution and patience when visiting the many snow parks and trails.
Chris Sabo
Not a threat to water quality, and it's not a threat to the water supply. It does impact recreation at the lake.
Gary Morgan
The kind of uses that benefit from a little bit of isolation -- hospitality, education, recreation, arts and culture -- need to be the bulk of the program.
Jeremy Soffin
What Microsoft has to do, arguably, is find way to recreate itself. And unfortunately this process of recreation, if you will, potentially carries the risk with it of cannibalizing Microsoft's existing product offering.
David Garrity
I'm disturbed by the effort to de-emphasize tourism and recreation. You talk about economic diversity; well if there weren't so many people having fun on the ski hill, our hospitals wouldn't be so busy.
Steve Teshara
It's been here forever, the people love it and it's something only Greenwich has. I've taken vacations a lot of places and been up and down this coast, and Greenwich is the only place I know of with a municipal ferry to its islands just for recreation.
Fred Walters
The plan is to purchase the land and use the passive water as part of a recreation area.
Mayor Jerre Van Hoose
The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
Miguel de Cervantes
The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.
Avery Brundage
Branson is located within a day's drive of 1/3 of the country's population and this makes us very accessible to families looking for world-class entertainment, theme parks, shopping, and outdoor and lake recreation.
Ross Summers
I just can't see going into more debt for a recreation center. There's needs, wants and desires, and we need to take care of the needs. I think it's foolish to have more debt.
George Stewart
I should be in favor of this project. Thousands of people coming to me for recreation can only make me money.
Don Werner
We have thousands of kids, Hispanic kids, who are at the doorstop of arguably the most extraordinary mountain recreation terrain in the United States and never participate.
Roberto Moreno
What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
Carl Stokes
It is a social, cultural, economic and political event -- and recreation.
Roberto Maestas
Pleasure is sweeter as recreation than as a business.
Raymond Hitchcock
The committee needs to assess the feasibility of certain paths that are located in preserved areas of town, determine whether the town needs to apply for funding to help in the cleanup and how such areas can fit into the master recreation plan being developed now. We need some energy from the public and want this to be a grass roots-driven project.
Wendy Rubin
I put it in a frame and had it down in our recreation room all these years.
John Walsh
If they smoke cigarettes, the money comes out of that (recreation budget).
Melissa German
It's not a master plan to do every remake and every recreation of icons. It's just what I've been hired to do.
Steve Carell
This plan will be the road map the city follows with parks and recreation programming and services for years to come.
Matt Earman
With all the new licenses FERC has given out over the past 15 years, there's been more attention being paid to things like recreation and the environment.
Robert Gates
The zoning code change, which eliminates 200 feet between residents and commercial recreation, does not provide the safeguard that residents desire.
Paul Elliott
My dinners have never interfered with my business. They have been my recreation. . . A public banquet, if eaten with thought and care, is no more of a strain than a dinner at home.
Chauncey Depew
I, like many others, got away from the traffic and the crowds and liked it. There was so much public land for camping or recreation, and my family wanted to stay here.
Brad Goetsch
We have a recreation program now in town. The kids are learning at an earlier age. The people at the recreation program are doing an outstanding job, getting the kids ready for high school. That's another goal.
Michael Disanto
In 1998 the new council brought stability into our municipal government. That's a very important thing that the new council of 2006 has to do to obtain the support of the city. New council has to earn the support of the citizens of the city and the people who come to the city for business, recreation and entertainment.
Bill Chertok
Basically the plan is to purchase land for resource protection, but also make it available for public recreation.
Cynthia Johnson
I do think it's a lot of fun. It's a day to come out to go biking and running. I think it's a day someone can have fun and look forward to. It's a good way to keep in shape, be healthy and enjoy recreation.
Matthew Anspach
Certainly hunting and fishing are a big part of outdoor recreation but of our nine interactive villages, that's only two of them. We still have seven others. We have myriad different things to do that don't necessarily have anything to do with hunting and fishing.
Jack Nugent
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns. So, I took up the sport more as a recreation than profession.
Gagan Narang
To locate temporary housing trailers in parks, then you're going to cause [environmental] damage to the parks. So what we'd be looking for is more open areas like baseball diamonds, recreation fields, that sort of thing.
Gary Vickers
With Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway, Gearbox is investing everything to take next-generation gaming to an entirely new level. For Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway, the Unreal Engine 3 powers real next-generation graphics and the most intense, action-oriented recreation of true history ever offered as interactive entertainment.
Randy Pitchford
It is interesting that Mr. Sauer called the proposal 'lopsided' since we never got into the negotiating process. I assure you that we are open to discuss all items and eager to have an opportunity to address the recreation board, a step that we never reached before being told that they were not interested.
Tim Blenco
We're going to be doing some things different in recreation.
George Green
The main thing we want to do is give them clean clothes, good, hot meals and a place for recreation.
Dave Scott
I lived in Louisiana. They (the recreation league) wouldn't let us play until we were 8.
Shannon Hildreth
You have to understand what the program was before. We were a recreation team. We had no discipline. If you only knew what it was like under the old coach. Every day was gloomy. When (Weitz) came in, it was like light. There was hope.
Carolina Ruiz
There are a number of municipalities with bonds for recreation. When you're talking about a key facility like the zoo, for the county and the kids' educational aspects — for that minimal amount, it seems like it would be worth it.
Sir Ralph Richardson
For years, there has always been speculation, does this footage exist, so we have a piece that actually explains what it was and we do a recreation of it. For fans of the film, that's a big, important thing.
George Feltenstein
Our trips and recreation are down.
Joan Sutherland
There's nothing that looks or feels like an institution. We are a recreation center. We're not a nursing home, a rehabilitation center or a hospital.
Margaret Gillett
The lands to be protected by this deal will protect water quality and air quality and will provide recreation opportunities in a fast-growing state.
Bill Holman
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.
Leslie Stephen
Recreation produces better economic benefits than barge traffic.
Scott Faber
We added 'recreation' to the name to reflect our complete line of outdoor accessories and a line of fishing and pontoon boats.
Wayne Peters
We bring in outside instructors because we don't have the expertise on our staff. It is a way to offer affordable recreation.
John Brill
He pitched through recreation leagues. He has a good, strong arm. We typically are not real crazy moving our shortstop off of shortstop, but we are looking at him as a closer and how he handles that role.
Brooks Shumake
This is more of a library thing. We're the people's university. The senior center is the recreation.
Jay Johnston
We need to keep fishing here as much as possible. But we must diversify, look at other activities. Like welcoming recreation and the tourist industry into this harbor.
Richard Young
The portraits people will see in the show are from a phase of Dunn's career that most of his fans don't know about, ... He regularly did portraits of his friends, and a lot of figure painting as well. I think he mainly did it for recreation and didn't charge them for the work, or if he did it was very seldom.
Walt Reed
Ninety percent of broomball is played for recreation, just people having fun.
Darrell Spencer
We have lots of exposed mud flats, ... but we will be closing the dam to flood those flats and facilitate boating a little more for fall recreation.
Brenda Hill
We're grateful that Glynn County lets us use Selden. But, there have been a few times in the past when we've had to get off the field because one of the recreation teams was scheduled to use it.
Chuck Fehr
Ours is a recreation area not influenced by weather.
Clancy Spicer
For the great, great percentage of the American people who gamble, it's a recreation. And it's a recreation that they have under control.
Dick Davies
Never has Recreation and Parks been able to present anything more than a couple of frustrated parents. ...If you don't make the case, you don't get it.
Bill Sheehan
RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.
Ambrose Bierce
We have a recreation council that is advisory. If somebody suggests something that sounds reasonable, we give it a try.
Michele Clarke
I've learned that there aren't that many places for that kind of meaningful recreation for people with Alzheimer's.
Francesca Rosenberg
People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness.
John Wanamaker
A few years ago both dams were declared to be out of compliance with Virginia dam safety regulations by the Office of Dam Safety and Department of Conservation and Recreation.
Cathy Riddle
We've got 5,500 of the best outdoor-oriented recreation folks and business people to be found in the United States. Top-notch people who have made there avocation their vocation.
Wally Smith
I will become the leader in all aspects of this dog's life. I will control his resources [food and water] and his entertainment [toys and recreation].
Graham Bloem
The most important thing to me is the quality-of-life issue that parks and recreation responds to. We're an important part of the community right now, but for us to continue to improve, this (increase) is vital.
Rick Burton
I had an Italian mother. She didn't view what I was doing as really a profession. She viewed it as recreation. I said, "Gee Mom, I'm going to be the head coach of the New York Giants." And she said to me, "When are you going to get a real job like your brother the banker?"
Bill Parcells
Not just employing people, ... but arts, entertainment, recreation, the library, beautification projects (planting trees throughout town), mayor (for much of the 1880s). He had a finger in everything.
Ann Thompson
I'd certainly run again. I love serving on the Bismarck park board. I think the district provides one of the finest programs and some of the finest recreation facilities in the country.
Dan Hovland
For years, I made traditional quilts. I taught quilting through the Parks & Recreation (in Brookfield) and quilt stores.
Norma Schlager
We saw there was a definite need for recreation for third- through eighth-graders.
Patrick Martin
This is another milestone, ... Our residents value our wonderful recreation programs, and they have supported this facility from the beginning.
Mike Simpson
I don't know that increasing population or increasing recreation in the national forest has anything to do with it. There is just not a clear link.
Laura Lewis
I am very, very cautious when to comes to energy exploration because I have seen in the past where it has ruined areas or made them unusable to recreation, so I'm concerned about drilling but not totally opposed either.
Adam Shaffer
This acquisition provides the Cornerstone group of companies the chance to leverage our worldwide manufacturing and distribution infrastructure with a classic and highly recognized brand name in outdoor recreation products dating back to the 1940s.
Jeff Hsieh
He likes it here. A lot of good recreation that he likes. Plus, his son will be coaching. He'll want to see him coach some.
Gerald Myers
Our major attractions in the state continue to be our national parks, our outdoor recreation. But once people are here, they are interested in understanding the culture ... and mining is very much a part of the history and current culture.
Betsy Baumgart
Thanks to the support and commitment of our partners, these important lands will protect wildlife habitat, enhance air and water quality, support local economies and provide exceptional outdoor recreation opportunities for future generations.
Larry Selzer
A lot of people count on winter recreation to put money in their pockets. Global warming isn't just costing us something that makes our state special. It's costing us money too.
Susan Sargent
These birds used to nest on all the major shorelines in the state, but what's on those shorelines now — homes, golf courses. These are not parks. They're not recreation areas. These (islands) were preserved to protect the birds.
Norm Brunswig
I'm excited and encouraged to see people getting involved with their public lands and forests. We really need the public's help to repair these heavily used recreation sites.
Robert Towne
I don't like the precedent of creating a national recreation area, then in the first decade carving a piece of it out to sell to an energy company.
Bruce Berman
Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.
Edward Weston
If we don't pull the hazardous materials out of the marsh, they're going to sink in and we're going to be looking at groundwater issues and wildlife issues and adverse impacts to recreation for decades to come.
Evan Hirsche
Out of all these great events around here, none are dog-friendly. What we do in our free time for normal recreation we do with our dogs, so why keep leaving them at home? This way you don't have to leave your friend at home and they can share in the experience.
Erik Skarvan
To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
Emily Post
We're proud to say that we're moving ahead per discretion of law and making the right choices for the building of our recreation centers.
Eldrin Bell
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