Parks Quotes - Page 39

• This is a good way to do it (saying goodbye to Victoria Park). What a perfect way to end the Millennium. The last football home and away match of the Millennium will be at Victoria Park, and in the new Millennium we'll have fantastic facilities, a new approach, a new attitude.

  Eddie McGuire

  Football, Goodbye, Attitude

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• Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.

  Harry Styles

  Running, Girlfriend, Dark

  "Oooh! Did Zayn Malik and Perrie Edwards have a romantic night in last night?" by Issy Sampson, www.mirror.co.uk. October 4, 2012.

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• The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Creating, World

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• My wife looks at the person Park Jae Sang and the singer who goes up on stage, Psy, as different people.

  PSY

  People, Wife, Different

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• My original name is Jae-Sang Park, so it's totally different.

  PSY

  Names, Different, Originals

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I love just going out and sitting down in the park along with the thousands of other people who apparently have no work to do during the day. People come up to me, but they are generally really nice. New York makes it easier, for me at least. People manage to be enthusiastic and sort of sane at the same time. And that’s lovely.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  New York, Nice, People

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• Obviously I'm a big fan of 'South Park,' but it gets tiring at times when there's so much of it.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Fans, Tire, Bigs

  Interview with Andy Patrizio, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

  Jane Goodall

  Dream, Animal, Opportunity

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• I played street hockey in Riverside Park when I was a kid. I played goalie. I didn't make the hockey team in college, so I played lacrosse instead. I didn't play hockey again for 20 to 25 years, and then my son became interested in the game. I decided to pick it up again. A friend let me play backup on his team.

  John Katzman

  Team, Kids, Son

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• We don't have a full black community in Boston. Our people are scattered. There's a middle class where I live in Highland Park but it's not like a piece of Washington or Chicago.

  Henry Hampton

  Boston, Class, People

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• Doing Shakespeare in the Park has always been a dream. Everyone else says Hamlet, but I want to play Romeo.

  Aaron Yoo

  Dream, Play, Want

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• I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.

  Stuart L. Pimm

  Animal, Thinking, Jurassic Park

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• The whole inside of the Pyramid on the ground level on the New Earth is one great Garden within the City, a great City Park!-His Heavenly Fair in His Heaven so fair!

  David Berg

  Garden, Cities, Pyramids

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• The City's going to be very very beautiful! Its going to be like a beautiful beautiful park in some places, and there in the lower level where the river flows right through the City there's going to be these beautiful trees growing on both sides, fruit trees with 12 different kinds of fruit, a different kind every month, think of that!-And leaves that'll be able to heal the people outside the City that are still sin-sick, and sick of their disobediences and their rebellion against God. We're going to be able to take those leaves outside and heal them!

  David Berg

  Beautiful, Thinking, Cities

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• And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

  Jimmy Carter

  Common Sense, Car, Alternatives

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• According to accounts of the Buddha's life, it would seem that he had a very deep relationship with nature. He was not born in the royal palace but in a park, under a sala tree. He attained complete enlightenment under the bodhi tree and left this earth to enter Parinirvana, again, between three sala trees. It would seem that the Buddha was very fond of trees.

  Dalai Lama

  Tree, Enlightenment, Royal Palaces

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• I lived at home for 2 1/2 months each time. I waited tables at Govnr's Park Tavern in Denver and then I moved on.

  Dana Perino

  Taverns, Denver, Tables

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Please also remember the pitiful gasping/thirsty little mouths/ beaks in summer. They'll appreciate abundant/fresh/cool/clean/ water! Food they can get easily in parks/sidewalks!

  Adela Popescu

  Summer, Animal, Appreciate

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• 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

  Spring, London, Wonder

  Charles Dickens (1850). “Sketches by Boz [i.e. Charles Dickens] ... With a frontispiece by George Cruikshank”, p.67

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• My wife loves Europe, but to me it's a bad day at a theme park.

  Jay Leno

  Humorous, Bad Day, Europe

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• What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray matter you're so proud of is like a mirror in an amusement park which transmits to you nothing but distorted signals from reality forever beyond your grasp.

  Ayn Rand

  Reality, Thinking, Mirrors

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.260, Hamilton Books

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• I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness.

  Eda LeShan

  Horse, Husband, Central Park

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• I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

  Steven Spielberg

  War, Eye, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's like being at a theme park every time you go to a training session

  Tom Daley

  Training, Theme, Session

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• The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Running, Lakes, Agriculture

  "Carl Hiaasen and the state of weirdness" By Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. August 4, 2004.

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