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Recess and lunch are the best. -- Ty Simpkins
Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE. -- Richard Simmons
Is it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess? -- Robert Byrd
I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was. -- Hillary Clinton
I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play. -- Steve Nash
And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A lake carries you into recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable. -- William Wordsworth
Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess. -- Melissa Leo
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. -- Alan Shepard
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life. -- Alberto Giacometti
The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart. -- John Calvin
The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends. -- Carl Jung
Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done. -- William James
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -- T. E. Lawrence
Dear to us are those who love us... but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit, and urge us to new and unattempted performances. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role. -- Tony Benn
At the same time that she [nature] solicits him [man] to follow her not only into her open walks, but likewise to explore her secret recesses, she - fails not to reward him with the purest gratifications of the mind, because at every step he takes, new instances of beauty, variety, and perfection are unfolded to his view. -- Henry Kett
Alas, everything that men say to one another is alike; the ideas they exchange are almost always the same, in their conversation. But inside all those isolated machines, what hidden recesses, what secret compartments! It is an entire world that each one carries within him, an unknown world that is born and dies in silence! What solitudes all these human bodies are! -- Alfred de Musset
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart. -- Ben Carson
I'm not really a computer guy. It's like recess. I'd rather be outside getting dirty in the sandbox. -- Matt Barr
We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day. -- Darell Hammond
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play. -- Chris Gabrieli
I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination. -- Dichen Lachman
During the year, our schools are busy slashing P.E. and recess to make more time for math. During the summer, we get ourselves worked into a tizzy that our children will forget their fractions. -- Darell Hammond
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed. -- Dan Hill
Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. -- John Podhoretz
In court, jurors are admonished by the judge at every recess not to discuss the case or form any opinions until the case is given to them for deliberations. Of course, there is no such limitation on the public. -- Robert Shapiro
The 9/11 Commission recently released their report, citing important changes which need to be made to improve our nation's homeland security. I voiced my disappointment with the House leadership when this report was left until after the August recess for action. -- Leonard Boswell
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. -- Paul Weller
Play is under attack in our nation's schools - and shrinking recess periods are only part of the problem. Homework is increasing. Cities are building new schools without playgrounds. Safety concerns are prompting bans of tag, soccer, and even running on the schoolyard. -- Darell Hammond
I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain. -- David Souter
I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time. -- Vesta Williams
With hacky sack, somebody brought one to recess in sixth grade and it kind of all went downhill from there! The same with the yoyo's! One kid brought a yoyo one day and people started getting them. I just kept at it and found that I really loved it. -- Jason Dolley
When I was little I used to dance and model and that was fun. But I was always the person that was goofing off and I would memorize every line in every movie that I saw. And at recess that's what I would do, I would talk to my friends and recite movies. -- Ashley Benson
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. -- John Madden
Maybe more businesses should allow time for recess. -- Adam Rubin
The US is safest when Congress is in recess. -- Will Rogers
It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out. -- Zora Neale Hurston
Ten minutes is short if it's a recess and long if it's a punishment. -- Cynthia Lewis
No mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind. -- Arnold Bennett
My favorite subject was recess. Fortunately for me, I had a mother who believed I was smart. -- Ben Carson
Hearing the faraway sounds of children at recess makes me understand that I am no longer life's main character. -- Alec Sulkin
My mind spun like the flywheel on an antique John Deere, merry-go-round during second-grade recess, hard spun roulette wheel." -- Dennis Vickers
Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since. -- Jim Rogers
It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate. -- Stephen Colbert
We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies. -- John Conyers
In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out. -- Russell Wilson
What kind of leader sends congressmen out on a kamikaze mission in an election year and right before a recess? The kind of leader whose followers are diminishing in number. -- Jed Babbin
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. -- William Penn
My body is on fire, aching and clawing at me to set it free. It wants to come out to play alright. It wants recess with Ian. He's everything I'm not, and I love it. -- Scarlet Wolfe

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