Best 167 quotes in «parks quotes» category

I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom. . . . Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

I would try and help everybody, because the game was so easy for me. It was just like walking in the park.

Let's go Matt; we aren't strolling through Central Park here.

Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark

Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here.

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

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Mr. Rickey, I'll put more people in the park than anybody since Babe Ruth.

My favorite thing of all time is a New York City when there's a blizzard. Everything gets really quiet, and everyone goes to the movies and the park.

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.

Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.

National parks, zoos, protected areas, polluted seas - using the whole world as a readymade, I thought about it as a stage set. To activate a stage set you need a drama, an actor to offset it.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.

Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .

Prison's a walk in the park compared with being sectioned, mate, it really is.

Prison service vans that travel 90 miles to take a prisoner 90 yards; paedophiles free to leer at children in the very parks where they have committed horrific crimes.

That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating.

Reality is hard. It is no walk in the park, this thing called life.

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.

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!

She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.

Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.

So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out.

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

Starkville is an Indian word for trailer park.

Remember all the movies, Terry, we'd go see? Trying to learn how to walk like the heroes we thought we had to be And after all this time to find we're just like all the rest Stranded in the park and forced to confess To hiding on the Backstreets.

...Skyscraper National Park

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

Standing in the park, I was wondering why a frisbee looks larger the closer it gets...then it hit me

Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

The greatest romance in the life of a lyricist is when the right word meets the right note; often, however, a Park Avenue phrase elopes with a Bleecker Street chord, resulting in a shotgun wedding and a quickie divorce.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

The first big thing that I did with my dad was the bicycle sequence in "The Great Muppet Caper," where Kermit and Piggy are riding bicycles in Battersea Park in London and that was a complex marionetting and cranes driving through the park, it was a complicated scene, and I did that with my dad.

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.

There are companies which are prepared to change the way they work. They realize that nothing can be based on what used to be, that there is a better way. But, 99 percent of companies are not ready, [they are] caught in an industrial Jurassic Park.

The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

There was no actually stock footage in "Medium Cool." I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.

There is something special about a quiet untouched forest that just pulls you into the moment. Something that no parks will ever be able to achieve. Isn't that what we're all searching for in life? To just be happy and content in the moment, to just be there in the "now"?