Parks Quotes · Page 9

“...it is disquieting to feel that the conversion into a National Forest or Park always means the esthetic death of a piece…

— Aldo Leopold

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

— Noel Fielding

The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit!

— Jennifer Rardin

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the…

— Cliff Martinez

“In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and…

— Paul Johnson

There is so much oil now in the Gulf of Mexico, and you can thank the folks of British Petroleum for this,…

— David Letterman

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy…

— John Lasseter

St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's…

— Bjarke Ingels

I try to turn most things into an exercise. Sometimes, I can't get a workout in, so I will do things like…

— Regina King

I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and…

— Walter Kirn

The campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has narrowed the choices down to four finalists. The four finalists are…

— Conan O'Brien

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of…

— David Cameron

I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no…

— Daniel Radcliffe

Both conservatives and liberals watch 'Parks and Recreation,' and they each think the show is for them, which is really cool. 'SNL'…

— Amy Poehler

At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we…

— Keith Olbermann

A female friend, amiable, clever, and devoted, is a possession more valuable than parks and palaces; and without such a muse, few…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt…

— George A. Sheehan

“Do we allow unlimited visitation, or do we restrict numbers to protect a delicate ecosystem? Do we heavily advertise the park, enticing…

— Mary E. Reed

We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket…

— Glenn Beck

The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there…

— David Berg

We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways,…

— Enrique Penalosa

He is likely to remain the one historian of the Sierra; he imported into his view the imagination of the poet and…

— Robert Underwood Johnson

A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the…

— Cynthia Ozick

I like what Barcelona is doing. This city almost perfectly combines its natural advantages with cultural attractions, IT parks and first-rate educational…

— Charles Landry

I'm just going to try to hit the ball hard. If it's going out of the park, that'll be OK.

— Hanley Ramirez

Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.

— Bill Bryson

I lived at home for 2 1/2 months each time. I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver and then I moved on.

— Dana Perino

I do have spare time and I love to read, and I love just to go to a national park and just…

— Lewis Pugh

There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.

— O. Henry

Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they…

— Bette Midler

Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

— Geoff Thompson

It's like, to me, acting is like a child walking in the park, the better the actor, the greater the playground he…

— Logan Lerman

If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement…

— Wallace Stegner

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 think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should…

— Lewis Pugh

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.

— Alan Rickman

Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a…

— Walter Moers

However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.

— Michael Frome

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

— John Lewis

[when I'm not working I like to] listen to music, watch something really funny like South Park.

— Queen Latifah