Top 511 Parks Quotes & Sayings

National Parks are the gold standard for conservation.

I like English parks.

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.

I worked for the recreation and parks department for a year.

I love going to parks.

The influence of (the national parks) is far beyond what is usually esteemed or usually considered. It has a relation to efficiency -- the working efficiency of the people, to their health, and particularly to their patriotism -- which would make the parks worth while, if there were not a cent of revenue in it, and if every visitor to the parks meant that the Government would have to pay a tax of $1 simply to get him there.

That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.

There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons.

It's going to sound like brown-nosing, but I love 'Parks & Rec.'

The question is not whether to close the parks, but how to accomplish this goal.

I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."

National Parks are a part of the American experience. They evoke memories of childhood vacations and pride in the beauty of our national landscapes. They are also reminders that if these parks are to remain beautiful and accessible, we have a responsibility as a nation to maintain and protect them.

Parks are works of art just as a painting or sculpture is.

Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.

I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly... and discussing public question. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all... but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.

When I got to Mumbai, I missed the Delhi parks and grounds.

I watch 'Parks and Rec.' It's set in a fictitious city in Indiana.

Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.

We are all going to die. When it happens in such a drastic, inhuman way, which we've been seeing in Africa, this is crime on its highest level. It is affecting not only the security of the national parks, it is affecting the people in communities that live around the national parks. In terms of security for wildlife and our society, it's an incredibly alarming situation, and we need to address that.

Growing up, I was a parks and recs kid.

So what, I'm living in a park. Parks are beautiful. I'm a musician. And I'm tired of dumb people who don't know where I come from.

It is important that the remaining scenic areas of the country be at once made into State or National Parks. Fortunately there still are a number of these wild places, but it will require effort to save them. Each Park proposed will have powerful and insidious opposition. The insidious opposition to National Parks will say, ‘There is a feeling in Congress that we should not have any more National Parks at this time’; or, ‘We should wait until present ones are improved.’

My father's a fanatic for national parks, and every childhood trip was pretty much to national parks.

Connecticut has some of the best parks of any state in the country, and the State Parks system provides numerous opportunities across the state to explore the outdoors.

There is nothing so American as our national parks. The scenery and the wildlife are native. The fundamental idea behind the parks is native. It is, in brief, that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us. The parks stand as the outward symbal of the great human principle.

My favorite thing about Nashville is the parks.

In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference. We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.

National parks and reserves are an integral aspect of intelligent use of natural resources. It is the course of wisdom to set aside an ample portion of our natural resources as national parks and reserves, thus ensuring that future generations may know the majesty of the earth as we know it today.

Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world.

Rosa Parks is rock and roll.

Rosa Parks inspired many. She will not be forgotten.

I'm a huge fan of 'Parks and Rec.'

My favorite show is 'Parks and Recreation.'

Here's a shock: An adult who still hangs out in skate parks is a bad parent.

I love England, the people, the parks, the theatre.

I'm obsessed with the theme parks and themed restaurants, I love it!

If I couldn't be a fiction writer, I would be a roller coaster designer for theme parks

I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.

It's mad to think I was just a kid from south London, rapping in parks with friends.

I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.

The Right has such antiquated ideas - if they took charge, I think they'd want to close the parks, open the land up for development. It's an ongoing battle to keep the parks strong.

I need money to build parks. I will build more parks. That's all I'm interested in.

Parks said, he's guilty and that's the end of the story.

Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

I've gotten to visit all the parks and put my name inside the Fenway wall.

Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while.

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've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

The National Parks are overlooked and underrated, and they shouldn't be.

The interminable forests should become graceful parks, for use and delight.

There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand what the national parks mean.

Pubs would be number one. And black cabs and cabbies - moody cabbies always crack me up. And the other thing I love is the parks: the parks around London don't get enough airtime - I think they're sensational, and when spring hits, the first thing I'll do is go to the park.

The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.

I travel for theme parks.

I do feel more myself in America. I can regress there, and they have roller-coaster parks.