Best 167 quotes in «parks quotes» category

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

The dream pool is pushed out in the open and the dappled depths of our imagination become a uniformly blue intruder, often out of scale with its surroundings and nearly always discordant in colour and texture.

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The nation behaves well if it treats its natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

We take too much of our heritage for granted. Harriman State Park is not Mt. Vernon. Nor is it Yosemite. But heritage cannot be measured on a scale...

A contra dance is like an amusement park ride we make for ourselves.

Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those who pollute the atmosphere. So we have to stop that externality. We would never allow a utility to put their coal slag in a dump truck and back it up to the city park and dump it in unlimited amounts for free. But that is exactly what we do with carbon dioxide and methane.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

Ah...' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

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

Am I my brother's keeper? Yes. Interestingly, in my case, I share that honor with the Prospect Park Zoo.

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot.

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.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror.

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Being out of work for 13 to 15 years is no walk in the park.

Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.

Best atmosphere I ever played in was at Celtic Park in the UEFA Cup for Liverpool.

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.

Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz

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.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas!

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I'm riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park - no, I don't wear the dreaded helmet then.

Don't park... Arrival is the death of inspiration.

Everything is calm, happier, and less stressed. As soon as you drive into the park, it’s like you’ve entered an oasis.

Every film is a remake of a previous film, or a remake of a television series that everyone loved in the 1960s, or a remake of a television series that everyone hated in the 1960s. Or it's a theme park ride; it will soon come to breakfast cereal mascots.

Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks, Gandhi — all these peopled described themselves as quiet and soft-spoken and even shy. And they all took the spotlight, even though every bone in their bodies was telling them not to.

Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.

Give the park police more ammo.

He asked <...> Rosemary, why do you love books so much? And I said, Well, I don't know <...> I suppose I love them because they're quiet, and I can take them to the park.

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career.

I can't go anywhere without being bugged by somebody. I'd love to just hike out down the street, or drop in a restaurant, or wander in the park, or take my kids somewhere without collecting a trail of people. But I can't.

I also love the makers of South Park, because they're political, strong, and they're making all of these comments that would get you shot for if you did it in a drama.

I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.

Horsemanship through the history of all nations has been considered one of the highest accomplishments. You can't pass a park without seeing a statue of some old codger on a horse. It must be to his bravery, you can tell it's not to his horsemanship.

I don’t like you, Park. Sometimes I think I live for you

I'd like to see the first act of Sunday in the Park with George, and the second act of Hamilton. Every day.

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

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.

I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

If an ordinary person parks outside another ordinary person's house for a week, it's considered stalking. If, however, that person is considered newsworthy, it's perfectly legal for paparazzi to do the same thing.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

If people knew where the sounds in Jurassic Park came from, it'd be rated R!

If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.