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Pastime Definition

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.
Jean Cocteau

Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Jim Sensenbrenner

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
Bob Greene

But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth to dreams of expansion, both within the major leagues and around the world.
John Thorn

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
Arthur Miller

Customary though it may be to write about that institutionalized pastime as though it existed apart from the general environment, my story does not lend itself to such treatment.
Curt Flood

I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
Mark McGwire

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
Hedy Lamarr

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.
John Webster

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.
Phyllis McGinley

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
Elizabeth II

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.
Erma Bombeck

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

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Lou Gehrig

You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.
George Herman

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