Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.
It's nice to just be a kid and hang out with your friends at lunch.
As a kid, my favorite subject was recess. Why? Because I could go play basketball.
During recess at school, I'd slip back into the classroom and find something in some other kid's lunch bag that wouldn't be missed - a package of crackers, an apple - and I'd gulp it down so quickly I would barely be able to taste it.
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.
When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.
I remember growing up, having sports to go to, having recess, those were the things I looked forward to. Yes, I'm an athlete, but I had buddies who weren't, and they looked forward to it, too.
The Eucharist engages us unreservedly; it is a pact of love, an alliance signed in the deeper recesses of our being. All our potentialities are called upon to warrant the protection and fulfillment of this pact.
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out.
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Recesses [in negotiations] allow positions to become entrenched.
Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.
I had taken an acting class at Berkeley - I was on the track team, and a friend of mine on the team said, 'You should take an acting class. It's just like recess.' So I viewed it as a simple credit.
I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.
Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.
When I lived in a little flat in Pimlico in 1981, I'd write in the hallway. As you walked in, there was a tiny little recess type thing, hardly a hallway, really, and I'd sit there writing songs with my guitar.
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play is closely linked to ADHD; behavioral problems; and stunted social, cognitive, and creative development.
My mother and I lived in an apartment complex in a neighborhood. So there was a gaggle of kids. Every day after school, we'd just meet up in a field, and some game would be chosen, Wiffle ball or tag, and you'd play that until the streetlights came on.
We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
People will say, 'What's your favorite part of Cincinnati?' I'm like, 'I was nine, man. I liked recess and having snacks. I didn't go anywhere. I was a kid.'
