Park Quotes - page 3

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)
When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect. View quote
Diego Della Valle
When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities. View quote
Dinaw Mengestu
My first job was at an amusement park in Virginia. It was the worst. I loved the park but once I'd worked there all the magic was gone from it. It just turned into a place I hated and I've never been there since. View quote
Danny McBride
Madrid is enjoyed most from the ground, exploring your way through its narrow streets that always lead to some intriguing park, market, tapas bar or street performer. Each night we'd leave our hotel to begin a new adventure in Madrid and nine out of 10 times, we'd walk through the Plaza Mayor. View quote
Emilio Estevez
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park. View quote
Edmund Muskie
I park two blocks away from Nickelodeon studios and I hop on my skateboard and I skateboard the rest of the way to the studio. View quote
Greg Cipes
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. View quote
Gary Carter
Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities. View quote
Gavin Newsom
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? View quote
Hendrik Poinar
I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar. (Herbie Mann)
My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest. View quote
Haley Joel Osment
There are no black film composers doing the likes of Star Wars, doing the likes of E.T., doing the likes of Jurassic Park. There are none, nor will there ever be one. That ain't about to happen! View quote
J. J. Johnson
South Park started as a little video Christmas card. View quote
Joel Hodgson
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. View quote
John Hench
Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated. View quote
John Hench
We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy. View quote
Kamla Persad-Bissessar
My love of horses began in College Park, with me and 10 friends on two couches and a keg of beer in the back of a truck, heading to Pimlico at 6 A.M. to mark our place in the middle of the Preakness infield, where we never saw a horse run. View quote
Kevin Plank
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup. View quote
Kris Allen
I can't wait for summer in the city! I love all the free activities in the parks that become available to us New Yorkers. Yoga and movie screenings in Bryant Park, concerts in Central Park - there's so much more available to the New York community in the summer! And everyone just seems to smile more. View quote
Kara Lindsay
Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend. (Kara Lindsay)
What are we out at the park for, except to win? View quote
Leo Durocher
I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can. View quote
Lili Taylor
I miss driving to Goodison Park. I miss just the positive energy of the fans walking into the stadium and how much they care about that club and the team. And I miss the players a lot. View quote
Landon Donovan
In Hanover Park they highlighted the terrible plight of backyard dwellers and the fact that year after year nothing has been done to help you: the hope and despair you all live with every day. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi