Parks Quotes - Page 12

• As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view.

  Nan Fairbrother

  Beauty, Real, Views

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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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• Absence of gratitude is the mark of the narrow, uneducated mind. It bespeaks a lack of knowledge and the ignorance of self-sufficiency. It expresses itself in ugly egotism and frequently in wanton mischief. We have seen our beaches, our parks, our forests littered with ugly refuse by those who evidently have no appreciation for their beauty. I have driven through thousands of acres of blackened land scourged by a fire evidently set by a careless smoker whose only concern had been the selfish pleasure gained from a cigarette.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beach, Gratitude, Appreciation

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• The silence of a shut park does not sound like country silence: it is tense and confined.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Country, Nature, Silence

  "The Death Of The Heart".

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• Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

  E. W. Howe

  Flower, Wish, May

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• Cause I want to be on 106 and Park pushing a benz

  Kanye West

  Rap, Want, Pushing

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• 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.

  Richard Pryor

  Color, Skins, World

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• It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

  Robert Breault

  Father, Swings, Years

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• Active conservation [of gorillas] involves simply going out into the forest, on foot, day after day after day, attempting to capture poachers, killing-regretfully-poacher dogs, which spread rabies within the park, and cutting down traps.

  Dian Fossey

  Dog, Cutting, Feet

  "Naturalist Dian Fossey Slain at Camp in Rwanda : American Was Expert on Mountain Gorillas; Assailants Hunted". articles.latimes.com. December 29, 1985.

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• I think, too, that we've got to recognize that where the preservation of a natural resource like the redwoods is concerned, that there is a common sense limit. I mean, if you've looked at a hundred thousand acres or so of trees-you know, a tree is a tree, how many more do you need to look at?
  Opposing expansion of Redwood National Park.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Thinking, Common Sense

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• Last week I was in London at an awards show, then I flew home and was in an RV park with my wife and kids in our motorhome, this week I'm in NY doing a charity event, and tomorrow I'll be coaching my daughters soccer practice. I guess the range of roles I play on film stem from the range of roles I play in real life.

  Peter Facinelli

  Soccer, Daughter, Mother

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

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• Let me speak frankly: separate but equal is a fraud. It is the language that tried to push Rosa Parks to the back of the bus. It is the motif that determined that black and white people could not possibly drink from the same water fountain, eat at the same table or use the same toilets.

  David Lammy

  Gay, Black And White, People

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• Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.

  Daniel Okrent

  Baseball, Nice, Winning

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• Bart Giamatti did not grow up (as he had dreamed) to play second base for the Red Sox. He became a professor at Yale, and then, in time president of the National Baseball League. He never lost his love for the Boston Red Sox. It was as a Red Sox fan, he later realized that human beings are fallen, and that life is filled with disappointment. The path to comprehending Calvinism in modern America, he decided, begins at Fenway Park.

  David Halberstam

  Baseball, Religious, Encouragement

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• A macho attitude is totally to my advantage. Guys try to hit it 400 feet out of the park, but in softball you have to use a short, quick swing. Big, huge swings equal big, huge strikeouts.

  Jennie Finch

  Softball, Attitude, Swings

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• Television is not the truth! Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats and story-tellers, singers and dancers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion-tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business!

  Paddy Chayefsky

  Football, Player, Boredom

  "The Screenplays: The Hospital; Network; Altered states".

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• Now 4th street park after dark is dangerous, might get clapped, if you look strange to us

  Heavy D

  Rap, Dark, Looks

  Song: Get Fresh Hev, Album: Waterbed Hev, 1997

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• Make a right down 7th Ave to 4th St Park, feeling the whole ghetto vibe and set my mark

  C.L. Smooth

  Rap, Ghetto, Feelings

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• On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark

  Big L

  Rap, Dark, Bigs

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• Park hill staten island seal, rock the reel to reel we high hills deep

  Cappadonna

  Rap, Islands, Rocks

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• Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench.

  Gene Spafford

  Car, Encryption, Credit

  "Rants & Raves", www.wired.com. November 25, 2002.

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• I went through puberty in a theme park. I'm grateful. That place was a landscape to me. I had adventures every day.

  Ryan Gosling

  Life, Grateful, Adventure

  "Welcome to Goslingland". Interview with Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. August 10, 2011.

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• No wonder that Churchill described this effort [the British codebreakers working at Bletchley Park] as "Britian"s secret weapon," a weapon far more effective than the buzz bombs and the rockets that Werner von Braun designed for a German victory, a weapon absolutely decisive, in the judgement of many, in winning the war for the Allies.

  Peter Hilton

  War, Math, Winning

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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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• It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works.

  Trey Parker

  Writing, Scene, Know How

  "Interview: Trey Parker and Matt Stone". Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. May 12, 2005.

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