Parks Quotes - Page 15

• 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.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Would Be, Labels, Cadillacs

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

  Ramsey Clark

  Kings, Moving, Drs

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• One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision creates a loophole for government to manipulate the definition of public use simply to generate greater tax revenue.

  Jim Ryun

  Taken, Government, Land

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• On Mondays and Fridays in early May, nearly 18,000 children-the equivalent of all the elementary students in suburban Glencoe, Wilmette, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Deerfield, Highland Park and Evanston-are assigned to classes with no teacher.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Friday, Teacher, Monday

  Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.65, Broadway Books

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• What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

  Maya Angelou

  Running, Jobs, Husband

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• Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San Francisco, climbed its hills. slept in its parks, worked on its docks, marched and shouted in its revolts~ It had been to me in the days of my poverty and it did not resent my temporary solvency.

  John Steinbeck

  Cities, Paris, San Francisco

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• I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

  Paul Kantner

  Believe, Play, Rolling

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• I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

  James Spader

  Art, Symphony, Museums

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Probably my favorite piece of music, as an album taken as a whole, is Bruce Springsteen's 'Greetings from Asbury Park.' I just think it's incredibly pure. It's a sound that sort of broke new ground, and I think it paved the way for a hundred people that sound very similar.

  Shane Black

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Forget all the bars and schmoozing and everybody checking out everybody else. My ideal date would be to park in a dark place, check out the stars, and have a great conversation. When all else fails, you can just make out.

  Brooke Burke

  Stars, Dark, Would Be

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• I was born in Darien, Connecticut, but in 1959, when I was four, my parents moved to the suburbs of Toronto. Then, in the late 1960s, they bought a cottage in a resort/trailer park in the Kawarthas region of Ontario, and we moved up there. I wrote a book about it in 2000 called 'Last Resort: Coming of Age in Cottage Country.

  Linwood Barclay

  Country, Book, Parent

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• I see something new in 'Gosford Park' every time I watch it.

  Nina Arianda

  Watches, Something New

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• I grew up on the edge of a national park in Canada - timberwolves, creeks, snow drifts.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Snow, National Parks, Canada

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• I have family in Tanzania. I can't even explain the joy of riding through the Tanzania national park and seeing giraffes run across the road and elephants over in a pond and baboons running.

  Emanuel Cleaver

  Running, Elephants, Joy

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• I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park.

  Gary Carter

  Spring, Kids, Winning

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• Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

  Helen Clark

  Country, Loss, Management

  "Helen Clark: UNDP's Pragmatic Visionary". Interview with Michael Tobias, www.forbes.com. March 29, 2012.

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• The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

  Jim Costa

  Rights, Victory, Important

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• That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!

  Roman Coppola

  Design, Creative, Waiting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My wife is very patient. On our honeymoon in 1992, we got a motor home and drove from L.A. to Idaho and then down the coast. I was running a lot, then so she would drop me off, drive six miles, park and wait for me.

  Sean Astin

  Running, Home, Idaho

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

  Denis Leary

  Space, People, Evil

  Song: Asshole

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• The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued reams of playground regulations and actually gone so far as to recommend against "tripping hazards, like tree stumps and rocks." Maybe we should just bulldoze the local parks and put in a couple of blobs... made of plastic.

  Lenore Skenazy

  Nature, Couple, Rocks

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• You don't like hot rod racing or driving late at night, you just want to park where it's nice and dark.

  Elvis Presley

  Nice, Dark, Night

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• The new French theme park based on Napoleon is named Napoleon's Bivouac, and will honor Napoleon with rides, battle reenactments, and the brutal March on Moscow ride. That's a walk-in freezer you stand in for 18 months while you try to eat a dead horse.

  Peter Sagal

  Funny, Travel, Horse

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• Taxes are how we pool our money for public health and safety, infrastructure, research, and services-from the development of vaccines and the Internet to public schools and universities, transportation, courts, police, parks, and safe drinking water.

  Holly Sklar

  Drinking, School, Vaccines

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• I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.

  Puff Daddy

  Fashion, New York, Home

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 20, 2008.

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