Parks Quotes · Page 11

I'm a really bad driver. When I'm in L.A. my husband always has to park the car for me, because I'm likely…

— Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

— Dave Grohl

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

— Jim Harrison

I live in Tuxedo Park, N.Y. and spend time in the West Village, where my wife Elizabeth Cotnoir, a writer-producer and documentary…

— Howard Shore

City parks serve, day in and day out, as the primary green spaces for the majority of Americans.

— Bruce Babbitt

The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself…

— Simon Pegg

I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down…

— Conor Oberst

I'm not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade…

— Dennis Skinner

The axe and saw are insanely busy, chips are flying thick as snowflakes, and every summer thousands of acres of priceless forests,…

— John Muir

It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Writing a novel is like an amusement park or a museum or a city. You go into that place and you have…

— Mohsin Hamid

I also liked to look around at the houses surrounding the park and wonder about the people who filled them, what kinds…

— Paula McLain

“Now I know all city parks are the same. Hyde Park. The bluffs above Santa Monica. The Tuileries. Just paths beneath trees…

— Kate Braverman

All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music,…

— Charles Gates Jr

What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never…

— Nick Hancock

That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city.…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give…

— John Muir

Time is the guy at the amusement park who paints shirts with an airbrush. He sprays out the color in a fine…

— Ian Caldwell

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily…

— Lee Ritenour

The Internet is really our meeting place. We have this amazing listserv. Every time I log onto it I feel a sense…

— Chris Abani

You can neither lie to a neighbourhood park, nor reason with it. 'Artist's conceptions' and persuasive renderings can put pictures of life…

— Jane Jacobs

Of all the sights and sounds which attracted me on my first arrival to live in London in the mid-thirties, one combined…

— Michael Foot

The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to…

— Pope Francis

Girlchild . . . unfolds a compelling, layered narrative told by a protagonist with a voice so fresh, original, and funny you'll…

— Mameve Medwed

I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next…

— Lewis Hamilton

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that…

— Paul D. Boyer

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— Bahamadia

Whatever you say about Fergus McCann, if this [Celtic Park] is the legacy, then I am absolutely delighted with it.

— Martin O'Neill

Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away…

— Jonathan Carroll

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that…

— Rob Lowe

The world knows of Rosa Parks because of a single, simple act of dignity and courage that struck a lethal blow to…

— William J. Clinton

Seeing Shakespeare in the Park, for me, it's just this side of feeling like you've witnessed some kind of magic. It's this…

— Julia Roberts

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to…

— Enos Mills

A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on…

— Jimmy Fallon

Improving Alabama's parks, trails and ball fields makes our communities better places to live and promotes healthier and happier people.

— Kay Ivey

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?

— Jane Austen

I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.

— Anne Waldman

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down…

— Noel Fielding

Rosa Parks wasn't the first one to rebel against the segregated seats. I was the first one.

— Claudette Colvin

I learned to park outside of Denny's because it's 24 hours. I made a deal at a 7-Eleven with a mailman so…

— Tony Robbins