Parks Quotes

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees. (G. K. Chesterton)
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. View quote
Robert Smithson
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong. View quote
George Carlin
Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans. View quote
Frank Luntz
I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments. View quote
Bruce Babbitt
Congress has an obligation to protect our country's natural beauty, embodied in our nation's parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes. View quote
Dave Reichert
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. View quote
Henry Mayhew
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. View quote
Paul D. Boyer
I like theme parks. The fastest roller coaster I've ever been on is at a casino in Nevada. View quote
Tia Carrere
Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life. View quote
Richard Pryor
Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal. (Robert Smithson)
My art is an attempt to reach beyond the surface appearance. I want to see growth in wood, time in stone, nature in a city, and I do not mean its parks but a deeper understanding that a city is nature too-the ground upon which it is built, the stone with which it is made. View quote
Andy Goldsworthy
Government protection should be thrown around every wild grove and forest on the mountains, as it is around every private orchard, and the trees in public parks. To say nothing of their value as fountains of timber, they are worth infinitely more than all the gardens and parks of towns. View quote
John Muir
Every one knows that there are no real forests in England. The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman. View quote
Karl Marx
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. View quote
Emma Stone
I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks. View quote
Alan Rickman
Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance. View quote
Barbara Castle
The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to live in 'Ackney?' But Hackney's fantastic. I'm serious. There are so many artists there. I loved the markets, the parks, the pubs, the diversity. It was a cultural melting-pot. View quote
Rose Byrne
What mothers need, as well as fathers, spouses, and the children of aging parents, is an entire national infrastructure of care, every bit as important as the physical infrastructure of roads, bridges, tunnels, broadband, parks and public works. View quote
Anne-Marie Slaughter
Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labor's monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted. View quote
Bill Shorten
I love doing comedy. One of my favorite things in the world is to do Parks and Recreation; a big fun character. (Ben Schwartz)
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. View quote
Jim Costa
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed. View quote
Jim Costa
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. View quote
Jim Ryun
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history. View quote
John Shimkus