Park quotes

The mystery is why we even collect these figures; if we kept similar statistics for Manhattan Island,Park Avenue could layawake at night worrying about its trade deficit.

- Robert Leroy Bartley
  On the balance of payments record. The Seven FatYears.

If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them.

-Yogi Lawrence Peter Berra
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

-Chao
  My  Autobiography, ch.10.

A gentleman's park is my aversion. It is not beauty because it is not nature.

-John Constable
  In R B Beckett (ed) Constable's Correspondence, Suffolk Records Society (1962^70).

There are even times when any assumption of dignity becomes ludicrous, and the traveller must, as Mungo Park once had to do,'lay down as a rule to make himself as useless and as insignificant as possible, as the only means of recovering his liberty'.

- Sir Francis Galton
  The Art of  Travel.

Thenover thepark (where Ifirst inmy life, it being a great frost, did see people sliding with their skates, which is a very pretty art).

- Samuel Pepys
  Diary entry,1 Dec.