Parks quotes
212 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees."
"Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz"
"We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head."
"Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly."
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"...Skyscraper National Park"
"The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight."
"Your body is the garage where you park your soul."
"Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site."
"Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in the passing lane?"
"Bears don't live on Park Avenue."
"I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee."
"Do you think there'd be a Givenchy in the hood if it wasn't for that South Park photo?"
"I can't go anywhere without being bugged by somebody. I'd love to just hike out down the street, or drop in a restaurant, or wander in the park, or take my kids somewhere without collecting a trail of people. But I can't."
"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."
"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."
"Ex-D-boy, used to park my Beamer Now look at me, I can park in my own arena"
"First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard."
"My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in."
"Listen," Mac interrupted, "you still have to knock it out of the park. But it's a degree-of-difficulty thing. You're doing a triple lutz and she's skating. You're the Sasha Cohen here."
"It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park."
"This week Disney opened its first ever theme park in China. More than ten thousand children showed up on opening day. And that was just to make the T-shirts."
"Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death."
"That's where you just have to get creative. There are all these trampoline parks and there's bowling and there's roller skating."
"I love Prospect Park-watching fireflies at night and going to the bandshell for free music."
