Parks Quotes - Page 10

• Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

  Ben Hecht

  Yellowstone, Offering, Chicago

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• Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly... and discussing public question. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all... but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.

  Jason Epstein

  Communication, Rights, Views

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• I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, People, Giving

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• 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. Friendly

  Pork, National Parks, Machines

  "Videoculture". Rushworth M. Kidder, Christian Science Monitor, June 10, 1985.

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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 Mayhew

  Aggravation, Sake, Nightfall

  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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• It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-spangled gossamer threads hung on the bushes and the shrill little cries of unrest of the swallows skimming the green open park spaces of the park told of autumn and change.

  Flora Thompson

  Morning, Sunshine, Autumn

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• I'm just a girl from a trailer park who had a dream. I never thought this would ever happen.

  Hilary Swank

  Girl, Dream, Oscars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Stewart Francis

  Looks, Wonder, Frisbee

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

  J. Patrick Lewis

  Bird, Ordinary, Benches

  J. Patrick Lewis (2014). “If You Were a Chocolate Mustache”, p.98, Highlights Press

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• My proudest moment? Every Friday morning when I look at the board at Celtic Park and see my name on the team sheet for tomorrow's game.

  Jock Stein

  Friday, Morning, Team

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• Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches.

  Jamsetji Tata

  Christian, Football, Hockey

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• In my 31 years in Congress, I have seen a lot of changes. We made some substantial policy changes that have improved our parks system and our public lands.

  Ralph Regula

  Years, Land, Aggravation

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• Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

  Jim Costa

  Struggle, Rights, Legacy

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• I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

  Don Young

  Thinking, Government, Land

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• Once after Barefoot In the Park had been playing for about a week I went back to see it, watching the audience, which was just falling over laughing except for one guy sitting the aisle. I was transfixed. I said to myself, there seems to be no way to get to him. No one else would I watch except this one man. My wife joined me about 20 minutes later and asked me how it was going, and I said, terrible. I really meant it. There was no way to get to this man. It destroyed me.

  Simon Neil

  Fall, Men, Laughing

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• I doubt if any of them would even intentionally double-park.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Doubt, Ifs

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• I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.

  Jackson Browne

  Sunday, Nuclear Disarmament, Play

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• It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

  John Lithgow

  Running, Long, Tough Times

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• Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone.

  William O. Douglas

  Inspiration, Adversity, Men

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• Please remember the hundreds of tiny empty stomachs in our communities. Winter is a tough time for birds and other small creatures as food can become buried beneath snow or frozen ground. Scatter seeds in your yard, nearby parks.

  Alex Pacheco

  Winter, Animal, Snow

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

  Edmund Muskie

  Mirrors, Media, Amusement

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• Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

  Nick Flynn

  Lying, Glasses, Church

  Nick Flynn (2010). “Being Flynn (Movie Tie-in Edition) (Movie Tie-in Editions)”, p.201, W. W. Norton & Company

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• By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.

  Stuart L. Pimm

  Weed, Numbers, Tree

  "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable". The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. March 20, 2004.

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• No one had to tell me I was never going to be a home run hitter. I was hitting the same ball as the rest of the players, but when the big guys cracked one, it went out of the park. Mine went out of the infield.

  Nellie Fox

  Running, Home, Player

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• Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides.

  Laura Chinchilla

  Country, Beach, Army

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