Parks Quotes · Page 29

I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet…

— Cassandra Clare

I went to the park and saw this kid flying a kite. The kid was really excited. I don't know why, that's…

— Mitch Hedberg

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.

— John Lewis

I hung out with all the guys in my neighborhood when I was little... I would, like, skateboard and go to skate…

— Daniella Monet

I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of…

— Zach Wamp

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was…

— Marian Wright Edelman

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not…

— Anonymous

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art.…

— Charles Jencks

In the evening, I walked alone down to the Lake by the side of Crow Park after sunset and saw the solemn…

— Thomas Gray

Exercising during the cold and flu season will help people stay in shape, and most likely fight off colds or reduce the…

— Michael Flynn

I had a friend who got pregnant at age 14 and wasn't quite sure who the father was. Her paternity test went…

— Kate Madison

(When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the…

— Carl Sagan

My mother was a teacher, and when she wanted to show me art and literature and science, she'd take me to museums,…

— David Blaine

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of…

— George Bernard Shaw

I've loved car racing all my life. I watch NASCAR regularly, and drag racing because we have Raceway Park in New Jersey.…

— Queen Latifah

Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted…

— Michael Bloomberg

Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.

— Paddy Chayefsky

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.…

— Robert Hass

Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects…

— Barbara Castle

If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga…

— Mel White

Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.

— Anonymous

Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.

— Chuck Norris

In an amusement park, you can go on a roller coaster that carries you up and down, or you can go on…

— Wallace Shawn

Would it not be better to go home and live at the family park all the year round, and hunt, and attend…

— Anthony Trollope

“Contemporary attitudes toward urban parks fall into three levels of sophistication. The first, the most naive assumption, is that parks are just…

— Galen Cranz