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If we don't do it now, our chances of acquiring beachfront land for beachfront parks will be extremely limited if not curtailed. Right now, as you know, most of the mom-and-pop hotels are being purchased and being converted into luxury condominiums.

Glenn Storch

If we don't get that, our chances of getting beachfront parks in the future is gone.

Glenn Storch

I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution.

Brandon Young

They start chipping right after Christmas. If there's only a few trees there, it's because the parks department keeps it clean.

Billeye Rabbe

It really limits the ability of the city to improve parks. We don't think that was the intent of the original amendment.

Bob Woods

The Office of War Information asked Parks to provide inspirational photos to support the war effort. This photo is about ennobling labor.

Alison Nordstrom

Dogs are not currently allowed in the park, but this law is not being enforced. This way the parks will be enforced and people with dogs will have a place, too.

Beth Patterson

Our line blocked better and it just opened up for me. It was a hard spot to fill but I just had to step up my game and fill his (Parks') shoes.

Doug Scott

Mother Parks, take your rest. You have certainly earned it.

Charles Ellis

Claudette was a very pivotal person. She really gave moral courage to Mrs. Parks and to me and other people who were involved in the movement.

Fred Gray

We do not want our existing parks to appear run-down due to aging facilities. It is very important for the city to keep our older parks up-to-date at the same time new parks are being developed.

Sally Ortgies

They would have been free to turn any public land into a home, including city center car parks and school playing fields.

Richard Bennett

The Board of Supervisors has not formally reviewed the bill, but Beaches and Harbors has the same concerns that State Parks has — which are health and safety.

Dusty Crane

For a few pennies that we lose, let's keep management of the state parks for the future and everything else.

Ray Martin

It?s just like the local logging communities that opposed the hell out of wilderness and national parks when they were first proposed. The world did not end as they feared, and now they?re better off for it. The same thing will happen with coastal communities and marine reserves.

Andy Kerr

In the past, our tradition was to rename parks only for an individual related to the life of the park.

Warner Johnston

There are parks for little children. Why can't teenagers and young adults have a place to go spray-paint a wall?

Donald Mcconnell

We are fortunate to have very large oaks at some of our parks.

Joan Byrne

I don?t know if the best location will be in parks or planning or open-space preservation. There will need to be more detailed discussions.

John Mikowychok

He missed an opportunity to name somebody to the courts with the spirit of Rosa Parks, with diversity and minority rights.

Joseph Lowery

National parks are national parks because they contain things that are unique on the national level. One of the components, the night sky, will be eroded away.

Chad Moore

With the time compression we have in the world, people are interested ... in fitness facilities for casual use and paths in parks.

Carol Anderson

City Parks has the authority to extend the hours for special events, such as jazz concerts, flea markets etc.

Jenny Moodley

China is such a big country, two Disney parks is always a possibility in the future.

Irene Chan

Since then, I served on the parks board the last 141/2 years, the last four years as president of the park board.

Clyde Freshour

Our process is we want to develop parks for the people and by the people.

Connie Edmonston

I don't take my children to some of the parks because of the activities there. Neither do my neighbors.

Andrew Jarvis

The governor has confidence in his appointees on the Parks and Wildlife board, and he trusts they will make a decision that is in the best interest of the Big Bend area.

Robert Black

We applaud the efforts of Cindy Sheehan in Texas. We consider her the Rosa Parks of the new movement opposing the Iraq war.

Rosemary Palmer

We know people's interest in state parks is trending up.

Becky Bovell

If they continue to erode these parks, we all lose out. These are our elderly. These are working families who work in our restaurants and hotels. They don't have money to live anywhere else in this county.

Rep Susan Bucher

They scored a bunch against our reserves during the fourth quarter. It was Elmwood Park's starters against our reserves, but I wasn't going to make a change.

Bill Bozue

It's a devastating situation what's happening to people who live in mobile home parks, not just here, but all over the state.

Rep Susan Bucher

You see that every day in all kinds of public places, and the more that happens in parks, the less opportunity people have to get away from those things that they face in daily life.

Bill Wade

The park's doing everything it can. If they can't make it happen there, maybe they can't make it happen. Normally, the park is a stronghold for a species.

Steve Kelly

In most cases, people are totally oblivious to it. There will be coyotes hiding in bushes or in the parks or something and people will be walking by with their dog and they'll have no idea there's a coyote there.

Stan Gehrt

Nor is it out of character that Chicago's grandest achievement- a largely manmade arc of lakefront parks and beaches - began as a mistake. from waste thrown into Lake Michigan a 75-year-old dump.

Pat Colander

With the parks, I don't think we should be the test case for that.

Bill Tompkins

There are many buses ahead of us yet. As we continue to confront inequality and segregation in our country, we still have the stellar example of Rosa Parks' gracious activism to guide and inspire us.

C. Dixon Osburn

If our national parks are going to be reduced to performing only the bare minimum of ?core operations,' the public ought to be given some say as to what is considered essential.

Jeff Ruch

If the thunderstorm parks itself above the summits, there's a good chance for snow.

Robert D. Ballard

Then they could go right across the street here to Faulkner Park or one of the state parks.

Aaron Hungerford

Parks was open, just sitting there. It was just a scramble and then just a little jump shot.

Matt Osborne

One in 10 parks, he'll stay the entire job. This is really unusual for him to do this.

Danyel Scott

They felt it was a good ordinance to pass to keep the children in the community safe, that are either at the parks or participating in an activity.

Brent Brown

We have fireworks. We have live music, races, football, tons of games for kids and families and indoor water parks.

Steve Shattuck

If you think back to Oldsmar in 2000, before I got elected, there were no parks on the north side.

Brian Michaels

We took the approach that anywhere we put a town center we put a park. We have more parks than any other plan.

Dan O'shea

We just want people to come and help us develop the parks.

Connie Edmonston

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.

Ramsey Clark

That could be potentially devastating to the parks, depending on how it turns out.

Craig Obey

Our staff needs raises; we need roads, parks, all the things that this money can provide.

John Nicholson

There's no way I could give you a close guess. There are several parks and several people involved in putting them up — there's no way to guess how many there are.

Al Gaskin

Clearly, Mrs. Parks was bigger than her natural family. She was bigger than her church family. She belonged to the whole world.

Charles Ellis

The Parks Department is listening. There is some good dialogue going on. Whatever happens is just icing on the cake for me. The big thing was getting the park.

Robert Holden

Things were changing fast by that time, women were beginning to come to the ball parks. We had to stop cussing.

Honus Wagner

We're looking at all the state parks throughout the system, because they all have needs. It would take much more than that (amount) to address all the needs we have in our state parks system.

Lara Ramsburg

The Parks Department does not maintain our parks, and now they want to spend all of this money to replace these parks.

Joyce Hogi

Dog parks are a great way to give dogs a little exercise and meet other people. But it's important to have someone watching the dogs so if there's an aggressive dog they can kick them out.

Jack Russell

That just means I'm old. I was fortunate enough to be able to play in ball parks when I was 19 and be able to hit them out.

Ken Griffey Jr.

We knew they could hit well, and this is a great place to hit. There may have been a few balls that went out that probably wouldn't have gone out at some other parks.

Reggie Christiansen

The grand slam, up 7-1, make the kid hit the ball, and he did. I think that would have been out of most parks.

Matt Hahn

We were thus able to compare parks in isolated areas, under practically no pressure, with Indian lands in areas disputed by loggers and agribusiness.

Daniel Nepstad

We mainly wanted to promote the activities you can do at the parks any day of the year, any time of the year.

John Brill

The way the locker room is set up is the first row is the ghetto, then you move out to the suburbs, then you're in the country, where I am, then the trailer parks to the left of us.

Kasey Studdard

Things are always changing, so we want help with what residents want out of their parks.

David Whitehouse

These new draft policies maintain our strong commitment to the fundamental mission of the NPS to protect and allow for appropriate enjoyment of the parks.

Stephen Martin

Our priorities right now are land acquisition for parks and renovating existing parks.

Mark Wasserman

I would welcome numerous parks in all locations throughout the county. One part of the county may not appeal to everybody.

Bob Leak

Parks are really key to the health of our community. They add value to our community.

Julia Bott

It's a growing recommendation that we need to provide access for all park users, especially in parks that are less developed and rugged, like Glacier.

Amy Vanderbilt

They're gambling they're going to spend more money inside the park once they arrive. I'm seeing that at the majority of the parks, with the exception of Disney.

Dennis Speigel

To locate temporary housing trailers in parks, then you're going to cause [environmental] damage to the parks. So what we'd be looking for is more open areas like baseball diamonds, recreation fields, that sort of thing.

Gary Vickers

I think they should do that. It just gives parents a way of knowing there's somebody dangerous in their neighborhood or around the schools or around the parks that are around their children. I think that's a great idea.

Donna Roberts

Fortunately, reducing light pollution is easy. Plus, it's good for national parks and good for America generally.

Dave Simon

Picnic Island is probably one of the most beautiful parks in the city. Why would we not want it as part of our boundaries?

Jill Buford

Already elephants are migrating out of the parks to the periphery near villages to hunt for water.

Connie Maina

This is a paint-by-numbers legacy for Ralph Klein. He doesn't want big monuments or parks named after him.

Brandon Martin

People are loving the facility. It's very family oriented, clean, and much more reasonably priced than other parks in the area.

Todd Jett

Ninety-nine percent of our clients are businesses. And we also do a lot of work in parks.

Corry Bakker

In fact, the park's geographical location is ideal and I can't see anything unlucky about the place at all.

Peter So

There are very few parks that compare to a project like this. Imagine a 33-mile park that connects shopping districts, subdivisions and business districts.

Dennis Johnston

Of course, with youth we need parks.

Ben Taylor

This is one more reason to be downtown, in buildings, parks and public areas. It also sends a message that this is a progressive community.

Frank Billingsley

Rosa Parks was a brunet who was not ignored.

Heather Arnet

We are not going to sit down idly by and watch our once beautiful parks go down the drain.

Beth Mcdonald

We aren't getting rid of grazing; we're redistributing where it occurs -- away from core wildlife areas near national parks and wilderness areas and closer to low-conflict areas.

Hank Fischer

I called Coach Parks (now at Minster) and asked him his biggest memory from Zanesville-Newark.

Blue Devils

Parks cater to the younger crowd and have gotten a lot of kids on a board, whether it's one board (snowboard) or two boards (skis).

Greg Ditrinco

This is a fight for order and control of our streets. There are hooligans out there who believe they have the right to determine who goes to beaches and streets and who will control parts of our parks and our streets.

Morris Iemma

Parks, in addition to being quality of life components, in a place like Texas are huge economic generators.

Walt Dabney

I wanted to do something to enhance the park that the kids would be able to use and enjoy. I meet a lot of mothers that go to other parks because there's not much to do at Orchard Park.

Deborah Scott

It's a severe loss to our country and the African-American community nationwide. I would put her in the same league as Rosa Parks in terms of what she represents.

Raoul Cunningham

Throughout the lean years following 9/11, Disney continued to invest at a heavy pace in its parks as it anticipated this turnaround in the market.

James Zoltak

Logically, you can say that state parks are wonderful, but to capture the heart and soul, you need an image to relate to the parks aesthetically.

Randy Widera

We're struggling to fund the parks. To give away licenses and permits doesn't make sense.

Keith Sexson

If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well...

Julie Ask

The list is a metaphor for troubled national parks all across the nation, ... Some of our national parks are becoming a national disgrace.

Thomas Kiernan

And we roll them into amusement parks, into concerts, into malls. These are actually operations that people can license and we have franchises that way.

Andrew Crosby

I'm just so happy for Jerome, and I'm happy for Mackenzie. I feel it won't end when he parks the bus in Detroit. I think he's going to win it.

Bob Dozier

This county has no open space program and no county parks. This is a wonderful opportunity.

Virginia Moran

With that kind of foot traffic, our goal is to convert more guests into buyers. To be able to give information about the parks, about the movies, as well as sell Disney products is really important to the company as a whole. So we have a kind of halo-effect over the whole company.

Tom Park

There's little hope of seeing any new parks built if we can't get the money to fix the parks we have.

Jeff Tittel

I didn't want to do something on Native Americans or Rosa Parks and this seemed interesting.

Lynn Williams

Our parks are the No. 1 tourist destinations for every continent where we have a presence.

Bob Iger

This increase means that Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Glacier and the Tetons will be the most expensive parks in the country to enter but there's a lot of bang for the buck.

James Doyle

In a way, what is Evergreen Park's gain, to some extent is Chicago's loss.

John Bisio

I'm not going to take a handful of parks for four or five hotels, no way.

Mark Cunningham

The Disney parks have been very, very strong.

Peter Goldman

We've had a good century of developing terrestrial protected areas, national parks on land.

Achim Steiner

It's going to take more than one group or organization to bring about change. It's going to take the mothers, the fathers, the clergy, government and all of the alliances as a whole, to continue the legacies of the Doctor Kings, the Rosa Parks and the Coretta Scott Kings.

Helen Hudson

It's difficult if not impossible to say who parks where.

Dwight Kroll

It really is a special park. I like it better than any of the other parks.

Chuck Mcquaid

Folks who enjoy national parks tend to be environmentally conscientious. So how can we serve seafood that is being fished out of existence?

Doug Bradley

They (residents who redeem the products they collect) can earn a little money, the parks stay more litter-free, and more debris is diverted from the landfill.

Mary Daubert

It's up to us as a community with resources to develop the affordable housing inventory to help them get back into housing and so that the parks can be parks again.

Margot Schrire

The Parks family is a very, very close family and they are grieving and supporting the mother who lost her child last night.

David Kalish

This proposal, as a locally owned amusement park, would make it very difficult to compete with corporate-owned amusement parks in Northern California because the playing field wouldn't be level.

Kris Reyes

We did this without support from the government, just RPI. Now there's a lot of easier ways to get parks. There are grants and incentives.

Michael Wacholder

Never has Recreation and Parks been able to present anything more than a couple of frustrated parents. ...If you don't make the case, you don't get it.

Bill Sheehan

What can Wildlife and Parks do for the county.

Linda Lanterman

Definitely, dog parks are a fast-growing trend across the country. Many cities view dog parks as beneficial for both dog lovers and non-pet owners.

Lisa Patterson

Like him or not, John Parks has prevailed at every turn.

Paul Gibson

Parks are very important. Ours are used for many different events, including family gatherings and other community social events.

Beth Martin

Her work with Two Mile Run County Park demonstrates class through adversity as she was the chair of Parks Unlimited and later the founding chair of the Venango County Park and Natural Resources Authority.

Sally Megeath

If something is not done and done quickly, we'll be losing parks.

Beth Mcdonald

I was here when Rosa Parks started and I just wanted to be here when she departed.

Joseph Lowery

I told Dan to make the kid hit the ball (on the grand slam), it's 7-1. He did, but I think that would've been out of most parks, not just here.

Matt Hahn

This event really makes good use of the county parks. This is very family-oriented. We encourage people to bring out the whole family to enjoy the day in the park.

Matt Bruno

We have over 400 parks and field offices nationwide, and she hasn't even been to half of them.

David Barna

I would move [my boat] here, and I think some of the smaller business guys would do the same. I'd much rather give my money to the city to help improve the parks where I live.

John Morrissey

The question is can you enjoy the parks without leaving them unimpaired?

Curt Buchholtz

One thing he did in Idaho was try to get more resources for parks. Hopefully, he will try to carry that ahead nationally.

Craig Obey

Make Rosa Parks proud. We should say 'no' every time our civil rights have been denied.

Rebecca Hill

Parks [nationally] are experimenting with a lot of different promotions right now. I haven't seen one like this.

Dennis Speigel

Mayor Henderson has been real supportive of the park board and the parks department since he became mayor.

Clyde Freshour

My kids thought I was crazy. People have preconceptions about trailer parks. But we love it.

Tim Brady

This is the first of a handful of parks that will be brought up for sale. Every time they sell a park it will help them reduce their debt.

Dennis Speigel

In general we don't know who they are, although when we were cleaning up in some state parks we have had kids come up to us and use harsh language.

Corry Bakker

We needed our parks mowed. We needed our garbage picked up.

Joshua Freeman

This is about the legacy of Seattle and protecting the beauty of its parks. Once you have ruined your parks, it is hard to get them back.

Diane Duthweiler

The parks and open space plan has been successful because of all the input.

Chris James

Some people like to go between parks and along shorelines.

Alan Mountjoy

Determine, once and for all, whether Cindy Sheehan is Rosa Parks or Lyndon Larouche.

Paula Zahn

They [the park's owners] don't want to discuss anything. They flatly refuse to listen to us.

Don Blatchford

Remember parks are designed to be aesthetically pleasing. You have to be careful about how it would affect the parks.

Gregory Jones

If there are still theme parks out there that aren't celebrating it, they need to get their heads examined. It's a moneymaker, almost universally.

James Zoltak

What better way to celebrate both National Park Week and Earth Day than to enjoy the trails in our parks.

Sarah Olson

I have a strong desire to see the parks of Allen continue to be a focal point.

Joey Herald

I'm thankful to God that I had the opportunity to know ? not hear about ? but know Rosa Parks.

Johnnie Carr

All major auto manufacturers have developed [hydrogen-fueled] cars, but they are extremely expensive. At least this study will let parks know we've found a way to produce enough hydrogen to fuel 'X' number of vehicles on an annual basis.

Brian Warner

We've kind of been on the backs of (the Arizona Parks Board) for years for doing squat.

Andy Gordon

Rosa Parks was known as the queen mother of the movement. She sat down so that her people could stand up.

Joseph Lowery

This is one of the nicest parks that we've built.

Michael Washington

Parks require a higher level of coordination with a limited amount of space. Environmentally sensitive lands are easy. We know where they are and we go out and try to buy them.

Jon Thaxton

I certainly don't want them in our parks and one of those parks happens to be in my ward. Let's face it, who wants billboards in our parks? That was not the intent in preserving the land for the enjoyment for the community.

Councilman Dave Kucherer

We're extremely interested in it because it was the first ball diamond they had anywhere in Middle Tennessee that we know was for black African-Americans in the early days because they were not allowed to play in the community parks. We had thought this would be a good project to put a historic marker there.

Evelyn Bennett

He was down to earth. In 1997 I first started making contact with him. He didn't know me from Adam.... Here was a man with so much stature and such an entourage. I started to call him Mr. Parks. He told me to call him Gordon.

Eric Key

They incorporate what they've seen here at other parks and nature centers around the country. It's a pretty neat legacy.

Eriks Janelsins