Parks Quotes - Page 8

• I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.

  Pete Rose

  Dog, Get Well, Media

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• I've learned that the movies [Star Wars] will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it's going to be in 3D, then it's going to be smellivision, then it's going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they'll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it'll never end! I accepted that a long time ago.

  Mark Hamill

  Stars, War, Mean

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

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• If the national park is, as Lord Bryce suggested, the best idea America has ever had, wilderness preservation is the highest refinement of that idea.

  Wallace Stegner

  Ideas, America, National Parks

  Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

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• That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

  Wallace Stegner

  National Parks, Use, Harm

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• On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park.

  Nick Gordon

  Happy, Dream, Halloween

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• When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.

  DeForest Soaries

  Inspirational, Basketball, Growing Up

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• Baseball is my escape. The sights, the sounds, the way the park smells. There is truly no place I would rather be than at a game.

  Alyssa Milano

  Baseball, Sight, Games

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• I'm really going to miss all the people in the front office, media relations, marketing, all the great people at the ball park. They were my family for a while, and that part really stings. But life does go on.

  Mike Quade

  Media, Office, People

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• I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Central Park, Years

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

  Martin Amis

  Running, New York, Artist

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.64, Random House

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• The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs

  Thom Yorke

  Easter, Years, Eggs

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• It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.

  Claudia Schiffer

  Principles, Germany, Naked

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Such an assemblage of the spraddle-legged men of the middle class, whose hands were bent and shoulders stooped from delving and constructing, had never appeared to an Asbury Park summer crowd, and the latter was vaguely amused.

  Stephen Crane

  Summer, Men, Hands

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.463, Library of America

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• Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later.

  Bob Filner

  Determination, Inspiration, Half

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• No lie, just had one of the best times of my life at Rucker park..wow! I love NYHarlem waddup.

  Kevin Durant

  Lying, Wow, Time Of My Life

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• South Park started as a little video Christmas card.

  Joel Hodgson

  Christmas, Video, Cards

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• But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night.

  Joan Rivers

  Party, Humor, Night

  "Joan Rivers Interview: Her 6 Best One-Liners" by Merle Ginsberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 12, 2013.

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• I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.

  Kris Allen

  Moving On, Break Up, Breakup

  "Five Questions with Kris Allen". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2009.

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• They did that little thing on South Park, and they mentioned my name and had a character of me judging a Halloween contest. It was really funny. That made me the coolest aunt on earth.

  Tina Yothers

  Halloween, Character, Aunt

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• Get the hell off the Beach in Asbury Park and get out. You're done. It's 4:30 PM. You've maximized your tan. Get off the beach. Get in you cars and get out of those areas.

  Chris Christie

  Beach, Pms, Car

  "Hurricane Irene Cuts Short Jersey Shore Summer". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.kqed.org. August 26, 2011.

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• On a park bench on 12th street, my whole crew's famous, you try bust your gat and keep it rel but you nameless

  Prodigy

  Rap, Trying, Benches

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• Damn, I can't wait until it get dark,
  So I can light these fireworks up at the park,
  And celebrate my independence,
  It's the 4th of July, but I ain't got 10 cents.

  Kam

  Rap, 4th Of July, Dark

  Song: Holiday Madness, Album: Neva Again, 1993

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• Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer
  Now look at me, I can park in my own arena

  Jay-Z

  Boys, Hip Hop, Arena

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• The reality is we all have to work together to make it work. We're going to be congenial with everyone. We're not telling people to park on the street.

  Brian Reynolds

  Reality, People, Working Together

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• The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality.

  John Hench

  Children, Artist, Reality

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