I have always had the sea as my playground.
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.
Twitter is the Devil's playground.
New York City is my playground.
The idea that this world is a playground instead of a battleground has now been accepted in practice by the vast majority of Christians. . . The 'worship' growing out of such a view of life is as far off center as the view itself - a sort of sanctified nightclub without the champagne and the dressed-up drunks.
To lunch with the important. . . that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
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.
The world is a playground -Indian
Michael Jordan was a cultural icon that everybody on the playground wanted to be. The Bulls dynasty was a huge part of my childhood and it was the peak of my basketball interest as a kid.
Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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.
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.
It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he has.
Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family
As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.
One of the things I want. . . all the kids here to remember, is that these [Major League Soccer] stars were not born superstar athletes. . . Many of them started out just like many of you-playing on a team at school, or just kicking a ball around on the playground with their friends. But they stuck with it. And I tell this to my girls all the time. I mean, you get to the point when. . . things you enjoy. . . start getting hard-that's when you know you're getting good, and you have to stick through it.
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.
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. '
