quotes about Parks
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I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music.
-- Abbey Lee Kershaw -
It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
-- Al Pacino -
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
-- Alan Rickman -
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I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.
-- Alan Shearer -
I got involved in Gateway National Park and just became fascinated with gardens.
-- Alexandra KerrySource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park
-- Andy Roddick -
I was accustomed to being in far, far riskier environments. So I thought going into that canyon was a walk in the park - there were no avalanches, it was a beautiful day and I was essentially just walking.
-- Aron Ralston -
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I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain, too, and both of us have many friends there.
-- Asif Ali ZardariSource : Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2000.
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My aura is psychedelic, flow non-prehistoric metamorphic boric like acid no hat tricks a classic so park that ***** like Jurassic
-- BahamadiaSource : Song: Word Play, Album: Kollage
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The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Jadakiss is not no walk in no park. Nas is not no walk in no park. These are dudes that could have ended my career.
-- Beanie SigelSource : "Beanie Sigel Explains Jay-z Dis Track" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. October 30, 2009.
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He gave Marcie a spare to the Jeep—I should park this thing in the ocean, twenty feet under.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.
-- Ben Aaronovitch -
I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character.
-- Ben Schwartz -
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On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark
-- Big L -
My partner and I are looking at several locations on Park Avenue South and Midtown for a new restaurant space.
-- Bobby Flay -
When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
-- Brian McKnight -
I have been given permission to announce that I and others from All My Children have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought AMC, with the intention to move it online.
-- Cameron Mathison -
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I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
-- Carter Burwell -
There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park-like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.
-- Charles Rosin -
I've always been fascinated by Disneyland and Disney World, and my favorite part of the park was always Tomorrowland.
-- Damon Lindelof -
I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
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We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away
-- David Bentley -
It's so unique. Wilson Park is just such a gem. It's in a convenient location.
-- David Wright -
It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park.
-- Diana Ross -
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I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.
-- Dolly Parton -
Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park
-- Donella Meadows -
New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Television was supposed to be a national park. (Instead) it has become a money machine... It's a commodity now, just like pork bellies.
-- Fred W. FriendlySource : "Videoculture". Rushworth M. Kidder, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1985.
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A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.
-- Gary Shapiro -
But, say you, surely there is nothing easier than for me to imagine trees, for instance, in a park [. . .] and nobody by to perceive them. [...] The objects of sense exist only when they are perceived; the trees therefore are in the garden [. . .] no longer than while there is somebody by to perceive them.
-- George Berkeley -
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton -
Now 4th street park after dark is dangerous, might get clapped, if you look strange to us
-- Heavy DSource : Song: Get Fresh Hev, Album: Waterbed Hev, 1997
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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
-- Henry MayhewSource : Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation
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I grew up in a trailer park in Bellingham, Washington.
-- Hilary Swank -
To be denied was like getting shut out of a Public Park.
-- J.R. Ward -
Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'
-- Jack Horner -
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Jordan Henderson is a player who likes to do his business in the middle of the park
-- Jason McAteerSource : "Stupid football quotes: 2012's best gaffes from managers and pundits" by Steve Anglesey, www.mirror.co.uk. December 31, 2012.
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Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.
-- Jay-Z -
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
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South Park called...they want their everything back.
-- Jeff Ross -
Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it’s like you’ve entered an oasis.
-- Jemma Kidd -
she was just…beaming at me, and I thought she’d won the lottery or something, her smile was that big. I asked what happened, and she said…†Park swallowed again. “She said, ‘You’re here.â€â€™ He blinked at Tess. “‘You’re here.’ That’s all it was. That big goofy smile just because I was there. Nobody ever smiled like that at me before.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.
-- Jessica Chastain -
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He provided the foundations of the park. All of the things that help give it that weird sense of reality are Fred's doing.
-- Jim Hill -
I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
-- Joe Manganiello -
I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.
-- Joel Madden -
A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.
-- John ConstableSource : 1822 In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962-70).
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Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.
-- John Hench -
I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
-- John Lasseter -
'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
-- John Lydon -
I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park -- Central Park is a much safer place.
-- John ThuneSource : "John Thune vs. Central Park UPDATE". www.politico.com. July 22, 2009.
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It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all.
-- Jonathan Raban -
Loneliness doesn’t exist on any single plane of consciousness. It’s generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you’re reminded of what this baby’s carrying under the hood.
-- Jonathan Tropper -
Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park.
-- Jordana BrewsterSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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 spell that you're under, to be part of that!
-- Julia Roberts -
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It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!
-- Kathy Griffin -
At Current, television is all we do - that's our business. We don't have amusement parks I have to worry about, we don't have environmental cases against us, we don't have a series of outdoor-advertising companies.
-- Keith Olbermann -
I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.
-- Larry the Cable GuySource : "FIctional character: Mater (voice)". "Cars" (Video Game), www.imdb.com. 2006.
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I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year
-- Lee MajorsSource : "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.
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What are we out at the park for except to win?
-- Leo Durocher -
I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can.
-- Lili Taylor -
To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.
-- Marion Davies -
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Child welfare ought really to cover all sorts of topics, such as better water and sanitation and good roads, and clean streets and public parks and playgrounds.
-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas -
Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season -- and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks.
-- Mark Shapiro -
You know, theres endorphins in laughter, as there are endorphins in running in the park.
-- Marlo Thomas -
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
-- Mary Frances Berry -
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It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages.
-- Matt Lucas -
The unsaid rule for living in a trailer park is: 'If the door's shut, don't come a-knockin.' But if it's open and you're walkin' by, feel free to say, 'Hello.'
-- Matthew McConaughey -
The mistake that was made in the '70s is we stopped policing the streets, we stopped cleaning the streets, we stopped cleaning the graffiti off buildings, we stopped supporting our cultural institutions and building parks and schools and all those kinds of things.
-- Michael Bloomberg -
And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
-- Michael Jackson -
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Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.
-- Michael Owen -
Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.
-- Mickey Rourke -
I spent ten years playing classical piano, and that was what led to keyboards and eventually to production and to Linkin Park.
-- Mike Shinoda -
If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks
-- Mike Wells -
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I had to take the driver's test twice. And they don't make you parallel park anymore, but you can't hit the curb when you're backing up. And I hit the curb.
-- Miranda Cosgrove -
Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.
-- Mo Rocca -
When I'm in London, I love to visit Kensington gardens and just sit in the park and read a good book.
-- Natalie Imbruglia -
On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park....
-- Nick Gordon -
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What I don't understand about mobile homes is that you have a mobile place to live, you park it, and you never move it again. That's like buying a Sony Walkman, and nailing it to your hi-fi.
-- Nick Hancock -
I really bridled when Parks And Rec became popular and woodworking publications wanted me to do stuff with them.
-- Nick Offerman -
I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.
-- Nina Arianda -
There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
-- O. HenrySource : "Treasury of World Masterpieces O.Henry".
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A few streets away a grave-looking Saddam warns: Don't double-park, you could cause chaos! ... I'm concerned for your life.
-- Osama bin Laden -
Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it.
-- Paolo Maldini -
The kiss became the narrowed center of the still point of the turning world, so that even the park was turning in comparison to the still peace at their lips.
-- Patricia Highsmith -
Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.
-- Patty DukeSource : Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.291, Bantam
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In St. Louis, some people were hurt seriously when some fans got on top of a roof that was where other fans were underneath it, at a park somewhere, and it collapsed.
-- Phil Lesh -
On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless
-- Prodigy -
My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.
-- PSY -
Ah...' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
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You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
Park was never going to love her more than he did on the day they said goodbye. And she couldn’t bear to think of him loving her less.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
What if Park realized that all the things he thought were so mysterious and intriguing about her were actually just … bleak?
-- Rainbow Rowell -
Until this moment, she’d kept Park in a place in her head that she thought Richie couldn't get to. Completely separate from this house and everything that happened here. (It was a pretty awesome place. Like the only part of her head fit for praying.)
-- Rainbow Rowell -