Parks Quotes - Page 27

• I think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cutting, Thinking, Should Have

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• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  Yolanda Adams

  Christian, Growing Up, Fun

  "Yolanda Adams 'How Sweet The Sound'". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. October 23, 2012.

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• I have a theory that there is something abnormal about children who like to practice instruments They are either geniuses or, more often, completely untalented. I certainly did not like to practice, and the teacher who hit me, and the view of the park, did not help to improve my attitude.

  Georg Solti

  Teacher, Children, Attitude

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Memoirs”, Knopf

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• Skateboarding, like graffiti, will never be tamed. No matter how much they monetize it, no matter how big it gets, no matter how many companies are putting millions and millions of dollars into marketing it, it's always going to be some Mexican kid on a corner in Echo Park that changes the rules of the game.

  Jeffrey Deitch

  Kids, Echoes, Games

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even though I don't have any larger spiritual or ideological system, there is some logic in concert with a huge number of beautiful, disconcerting, screwed-up variables that results in a certain visual pleasure in violent things. Like a broken egg yolk can be the most violent thing I've seen all day, if I'm in the right mood. But also tons of trash in the woods or a burned-up trailer park can also come across as especially violent.

  Elizabeth Neel

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Eggs

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I begged her to write a song and she said yes. I am a huge Regina Spektor fan. I think she's a genius and just a lovely soul, and I wanted her voice on it. And she agreed, which is just the coolest thing, ever. She knocked it out of the park.

  Jenji Kohan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Punishment, People, Decision

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• There's nothing wrong with ankles. But only if you're playing football in the park.

  Tom Ford

  Football, Ankles, Ifs

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• With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack.

  Michael Gove

  Struggle, Gnats, Pace

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• Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms, dead horses, and men lying on roads - they are not there accidentally. Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's Only the winners decide what were war crimes.

  Garry Wills

  Girl, Horse, War

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• And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that.

  Josh Lawson

  Writing, Reality, Interesting

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record.

  Michael Jackson

  Baseball, Football, Kids

  Source: www.today.com

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• How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.

  Dave Grohl

  Space, Car, Dashboards

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• I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here.

  Andy Cohen

  Running, Past, Thinking

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• There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species.  Why would one bring them back?  To put them in a theme park?

  Hendrik Poinar

  Reason, Theme, Species

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• I was born in Paris, and it's a beautiful place, but London feels like home. I like the village feeling, I like running in the parks - even the food isn't as bad as it used to be.

  Eva Green

  Beautiful, Running, Home

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• I live about four muggings from Central Park.

  Henny Youngman

  Central Park, Four

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

  Woody Allen

  Brother, Zoos, Honor

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• Do you know the nicest thing about looking at pictures of a 1950's baseball park? The only people wearing baseball caps are the players.

  George Carlin

  Baseball, Player, People

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• Anheuser-Busch gives two free cases of beer to its employees at all of its parks, like Busch Gardens. That's a comforting thought the next time you're getting ready to get on the roller coaster!

  Jay Leno

  Beer, Garden, Two

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• A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.

  Bill Maher

  People, Funeral, President

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• I have five kids from three marriages. I come from a trailer park. My sister and brother are both gay. I have multiple personalities.

  Roseanne Barr

  Brother, Kids, Gay

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• Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a difficult issue - why open our eyes anywhere but in undamaged places like national parks?

  Robert Adams

  Home, Eye, Simple

  Robert Adams (1974). “The new West: landscapes along the Colorado Front Range”

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• I got a job at an amusement park. I like to make the rides more terrifying by throwing a couple of screws onto the seats.

  Emo Philips

  Jobs, Couple, Amusement

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• Design does matter. And not necessarily in a way that people realize. A lot of what you do, people take for granted - that a park has always been here, that a bicycle lane has always been there, that the street is safe or clean.

  Michael Bloomberg

  People, Design, Doe

  Interview with Janette Sadik-Khan, www.fastcodesign.com. September 11, 2013.

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