Top 920 Amusement Parks Quotes & Sayings - Page 4
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Last updated on October 7, 2024.
I took the repeal of the Corn Laws as light amusement compared with the difficult task of inducing the priests of all denominations to agree to suffer the people to be educated.
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.
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness.
Can we all admit that 'Parks and Recreation' is horrible? Is this something we would all know, but don't say? Maybe everything should not be improv'd.
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, "But why do you want to build an amusement park? They're so dirty." I told her that was just the point - mine wouldn't be.
We got skate parks in different states, but me skating? Nah, I'm too gangster; I can't rock with it. But I watch it.
The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit!
I performed in Redlands, Calif., at Splash Kingdom. It reminded me of the water parks I went to as a kid. I was like, 'I want to ride the rides!'
It is exceedingly deleterious to withdraw the sanction of religion from amusement. If we feel that it is all injurious we should strip the earth of its flowers and blot out its pleasant sunshine.
In the old days, you know, they didn't have batting cages. And in most ball parks, they only had one runway to the dugout.
Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.
Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.
Some of the best comedies now are led by women who are very involved: 'Parks and Recreation.' 'Veep's' incredible. I love 'Girls.'
To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.
Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.
The parks are our national treasures, and they must be shown more respect, not only by visitors but also the people who run them.
Amusement allures and deceives us and leads us down imperceptibly in thoughtlessness to the grave
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy.
I once read that the only way to enjoy life is to observe everything with a sense of detached amusement. I don't always do that, but it serves you well to keep it in mind.
Looking at yourself through the media is like looking at one of those rippled mirrors in an amusement park.
When I'm not working, I go for runs. I live around many parks, so it's nice to feel like you're not surrounded by the city.
The cast of 'Parks & Rec' is just a group of unbelievably nice, humble, down to earth, hilarious friends.
Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all.
National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.
I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.
Wearing underwear on the outside of your clothes can turn a tedious trip to the store for a forgotten carton of milk into an amusement park romp.
Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.
In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J.
Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it's a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets - it's an incredible place to be.
Unfortunately, every time there's a budget crunch in New York, the Parks Department is usually the first to be cut. So they need all the help they can get.
First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You're shattering every creep vampire myth I've ever heard.
Parks contribute to the health and wellbeing of our communities and are an important resource for all people, including those with special needs.
Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.
Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.
This circus that's advertised to show and furnish a little amusement for us heathens is owned by a woman, one whose pluck catches my sympathy every time.
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
Rhetoric in serious discourses is like the flowers in corn; pleasing to those who come only for amusement, but prejudicial to him who would reap profit from it.
Government investigations have always contributed more to our amusement than they have to our knowledge.
The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury
A role like I had on 'Parks and Rec,' to me, is very easy to understand, and that's something that I can do with my eyes closed.
Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.
I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.
Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.
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.
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or for any reason but because I could not help it.
Dog parks are more cliquish than any other human gathering with the possible exception of seventh grade. Deal with it.
Behind every great amusement park is a great fan site.
I didn't have capital and influence in this industry. So I bought yellow pages and knocked each door of the company located at industrial parks.
I can't get enough of London! I love all the picnic benches, the old-school phone booths and parks in the middle of the city.
Well we have a tiny garden, it's like a postage stamp, so generally we try to get out to the parks in London as much as possible.
Doing nothing to stop national parks being drilled for oil isn't what climate leadership looks like.
Are you in want of amusement nowadays? Then play a little at the game of getting a living. There was never anything equal to it. Do it temperately, though, and don't sweat.
If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.
I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.
We have breathtaking state and national parks, flourishing adventure tourism and culinary scenes and the world's best horses. And of course bourbon.
