Leisure
Newton Mearns contains a number of parks, most notably Broomburn Park and nearby Rouken Glen Park, and numerous golf clubs and rugby clubs. A public swimming pool and leisure centre is located at Eastwood Park in nearby Giffnock. Newton Mearns also has an amateur football club Newton Mearns Rovers A.F.C.; established in 1962, they are managed by Greig Taylor and compete in the Caledonian AFL League.
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Famous quotes containing the word leisure:
“How has he the leisure to be sick
In such a jostling time?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passage from labor to leisure.... Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon.... The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.”
—Henri Lefebvre (b. 1901)