Parks Quotes - Page 11

• You've got 3 minutes to tell the world something. Are you going to talk to them about being wasted in your front yard because you couldn't park your car, or are you going to talk to someone about something that could actually help them?

  Isaac Slade

  Car, Yards, World

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• I’m just a person, just Jay Park, but people expect me to be the best dancer or a man with the perfect personality. That’s not me.

  Jay Park

  Men, People, Perfect

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• As strenuous challenge or contemplative retreat, the parks and other units of the national lands offer welcome respite from the world, a safety valve for body and spirit.

  T. H. Watkins

  Nature, Land, Safety

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• The Internet is the trailer park for the soul.

  Marilyn Manson

  Soul, Internet, Trailers

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• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Inspiration, Race

  "Greening the ghetto". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else that we value.

  Charles Gates, Jr.

  Art, Business, Book

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• I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them.

  Emo Philips

  Men, Play, Chess

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

  Lee Majors

  Years, Recreation, Department

  "Man in a 'Million'". Interview with Terry Pace, www.timesdaily.com. July 21, 2005.

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• I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park.

  Merlin Olsen

  Football, Games, Nfl

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• The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of British Special Forces, two Navy Seals, an Afghan Special Forces commando, a lawyer, two fighter pilots and at least two dozen combat veterans and counterinsurgency experts. They jokingly refer to themselves as Team America, taking the name from the South Park-esque sendup of military cluelessness, and they pride themselves on their can-do attitude and their disdain for authority.

  Michael Hastings

  Attitude, Team, Military

  "The Runaway General: The Profile That Brought Down McChrystal" by Michael Hastings, www.rollingstone.com. June 22, 2010.

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• In my next life, I want to be tall and thin, parallel park and make good coffee. But for now, I have lots of stuff to work out in my life, but I'll have that until the day I die. I want to write more books

  Paula Danziger

  Coffee, Book, Writing

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• 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

  Oasis, Stressed, Calm

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• When I go to Florida for Christmas I always take my nieces and nephews out on excursions, ... I become like a big kid again. We go on all the big rides at the theme parks or I stick them in go-karts where their feet can't quite reach the pedals. I think that if you can continue to have the child at heart you may grow old physically but you will stay young mentally.

  John Barrowman

  Children, Niece, Heart

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• Don't compare yourself with anyone else. The world is full of runners, so you'll probably see one every time you circle the block or your favorite park. Some will be thinner than you, some smoother-striding, some faster. But don't let this get you down. There's only one runner who really counts: you. Running is your activity. Make it work for you, and don't worry about anyone else.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Block, Circles

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• Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr., were. Not many Americans have even heard of Alice Paul, Howard W. Smith, and Martha Griffiths. But they played almost as big a role in the history of women’s rights as Marshall and King played in the history of civil rights for African-Americans. They gave women the handle to the door to economic opportunity, and nearly all the gains women have made in that sphere since the nineteen-sixties were made because of what they did.

  Louis Menand

  Kings, Past, Opportunity

  "The Sex Amendment". www.newyorker.com. July 21, 2014.

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• The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents America at its best. Each park contributes to a deeper understanding of the history of the United States and our way of life; of the natural processes which have given form to our land, and to the enrichment of the environment in which we live.

  George B. Hartzog, Jr.

  Land, Ideas, America

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• I’ve watched Jurassic Park twice in my life – once when I was six and the second time a couple of weeks ago. It inspired me to think about how gaps in time change our way of perceiving.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Couple, Thinking, Jurassic Park

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• When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Kids, Humor

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• A bomb under the West car park at Twickenham on an international day would end fascism in England for a generation.

  Philip Toynbee

  Car, Generations, Bombs

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• Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.

  Jim Costa

  Moving, Rights, People

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• If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Running, Wind

  P.J. O'Rourke (2015). “Thrown Under the Omnibus”, p.159, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.

  John Shimkus

  Hippie, Rights, Law

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• A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

  Wallace Stegner

  Running, Smell, Tree

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier”, p.29, Penguin

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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

  Pieces, Deer, Graduates

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

  Douglas Coupland

  New York, People, Theme

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