Parks Quotes
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Parks Quotes & Sayings
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Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.
— Paddy Chayefsky
Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why ... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.
— Floyd Mayweather Jr.
It was sweaty Whitney (Houston) in Central Park. She knew that park pretty well. Every bush!
— Kathy Griffin
Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.
— Rosa Parks
I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn't move.
— Rosa Parks
Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.
— George Gissing
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
— Dave Reichert
The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.
— Gordon Parks
I had known poverty firsthand, but there I learned how to fight its evil - along with the evil of racism - with a camera.
— Gordon Parks
The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.
— Gordon Parks
Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.
— Dave Barry
I think anything that gets people outside [is good] - I'm a big supporter of public parks and public spaces.
— Anne Waldman
The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.
— Rob Lowe
Racism is still with us. But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet, and, hopefully, we shall overcome.
— Rosa Parks
If owning frivolous articles of excess were indeed the trappings of malevolence, my home was ready to play host to the Axis powers.
— Michael Gurnow
In any power game, it seems, the dominant party is the least likely to be aware of what is going on.
— Tim Parks
I believe we are here on the planet Earth to live, grow up and do what we can to make this world a better place for all people to enjoy freedom.
— Rosa Parks
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
— George R R Martin
I do the very best I can to look upon life with optimism and hope and looking forward to a better day.
— Rosa Parks
Lots of ballplayers have their own personal music blasted by the sound systems in modern ball parks.
— George Vecsey
Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz
— Kanye West
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
I need money to build parks. I will build more parks. That's all I'm interested in.
— Stef Wertheimer
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.
— Jeaniene Frost
My wife simply quoted, 'For better or worse.' It was only then that I realized the phrase was not multiple-choice.
— Michael Gurnow
I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free ... so other people would be also free.
— Rosa Parks
I have never known anyone important enough to consume me in anger beyond a few hours. Better to depart their existence before they poison your own.
— Gordon Parks
Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.
— Thomas Hoving
If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.
— Bruce Schneier
you're only yourself when no ones watching!
— Suzan-Lori Parks
There were seven thermonuclear devices? queried Parks, who had latched on to Jack's outlandish explanation without too much difficulty, as should you.
— Jasper Fforde
The reality is the park has been badly maintained for years.
— Scott Michael Foster
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.
— Alan Rickman
Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer
— Gordon Parks
Quality is like quantity, but there's a lot less of it.
— Suzan-Lori Parks
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
— Stephen Colbert
Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.
— Reggie Jackson
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
A shared history is valuable but maybe those two weren't right for each other and they know it
— Adele Parks
Why do you all push us around?
— Rosa Parks
I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.
— Alex Parks
I don't want the public to see the world they live in while they're in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they're in another world.
— Walt Disney
Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.
— Frederick Lenz
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. — Charles Dickens
a periodical breaking out, we suppose
a sort of spring rash. — Charles Dickens
My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.
— Suzan-Lori Parks
And as you walk yr road, as you live yr life, RELISH THE ROAD. And relish the fact that the road of yr life will probably be a windy road.
— Suzan-Lori Parks
I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
When people made up their minds that they wanted to be free and took action, then there was a change.
— Rosa Parks
We've had many times when a judge makes decisions that are inaccurate, and that's why we have an appeal processes
— Bernard C. Parks
Dancing with the Devil is a lot more fun than dancing alone.
— Trevor Parks
To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.
— Rosa Parks
Victory or defeat? It is the slogan of all-powerful militarism in every belligerent nation. And yet, what can victory bring to the proletariat?
— Rosa Parks
We went on every single ride and loved every minute of it!
— Khloe Kardashian
I had been pushed as far as I could stand
— Rosa Parks
Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.
— Rosa Parks
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.
— Gordon Parks
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
I was prosecutor for 18 years. I was threatened by drug dealers, murders, and organized crime. This was a walk in the park.
— Tom Marino
If I'm in love with him, how come I can so perfectly inhabit the mindset of thinking he's a git and the bane of my life?
— Adele Parks
We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.
— Richard Parks Bland
Today's college students demand a self-segregating "safe space". Rosa Parks spinning in her grave.
— A.E. Samaan
I love New York City. The energy, the theatre, the art, the food, the people, the parks and streets. But I could say the same of London or Paris, too.
— Pierce Brosnan
Romans park their cars the way I would park if I had just spilled a beaker of hydrochloric acid on my lap.
— Bill Bryson
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.
— Noel Fielding
The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
— Pete Seeger
Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .
— Robert Smithson
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
— Wallace Stegner
Get out there and see your state. Go to museums and parks and historic sites. Get yourselves some culture so that when you do leave you can take it.
— Jennifer Niven
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
— Jimmy Buffett
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
— Gordon Parks
I'd smack you over the head with it so hard your bell would still be ringing for Church next Saturday night. ~ Jaz
— Jennifer Rardin
Bears don't live on Park Avenue.
— Bernard Baruch
I don't think I'm really interested in having a celebrity relationship. The music is the most important thing.
— Alex Parks
There seemed to be an enormous space between them all the time at the moment and it was easier to bear if they weren't in the same room
— Adele Parks
It is better to protest than to accept injustice.
— Rosa Parks
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
— Douglas Brinkley
We feel unbeatable at Ewood Park - even when we play away
— David Bentley
Summer is the sweet spot of the movie-going season
and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks. — Mark Shapiro
and it's also peak season for Six Flags theme parks. — Mark Shapiro
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.
— Lee Myung-bak
Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.
— Richard Parks Bland
If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.
— Mary Frances Berry
Our national parks are memory palaces where our personal histories reside.
— Terry Tempest Williams