Park Service Quotes

#1. The automobile, which began as a transportation convenience, has become a bloody tyrant (50,000 lives a year), and it is the responsibility of the park service, as well as that of everyone else concerned with preserving both wilderness and civilization, to begin a campaign of resistance.

Edward Abbey

#2. I do not think this makes a lot of sense, and I think we should rely on the Park Service to implement the regulations that they have in place with the restrictions so that people can enjoy our parks.

Don Sherwood

#3. A cluster of yachts was anchored at the far side, and a smaller boat with a National Park Service logo on the side was tied at the dock. We slowed, turned, and slid in next to it. I

Jeff Lindsay

#4. I believe the National Park Service has demonstrated strong partnerships geared towards respecting the private property of citizens in its administering of the current Trail of Tears National Historic Trail and will continue to do so upon the addition of the routes.

Zach Wamp

#5. The National Park Service actually has something of a tradition of making things extinct.

Bill Bryson

#6. Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings.

Rick Renzi

#7. The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. The National Park Service today exemplifies one of the highest traditions of public service.

Stewart Udall

#9. The National Park Service shot a mule in the face. He survived but had trouble swallowing and often food came out of his nose.

Cleveland Amory

#10. Whether you are a low-income elderly woman living at the end of a dirt road in Vermont or a wealthy CEO living on Park Avenue, you get your mail six days a week. And you pay for this service at a cost far less than anywhere else in the industrialized world.

Bernie Sanders

#11. Goodness knows what the world is coming to when park rangers carry service revolvers.

Bill Bryson

#12. The Great Commission will not be fulfilled with our spare time or spare money.

David Kim

#13. Grace is the power of the Holy Spirit coming to us free of charge to enable you to do with ease what you could never do on your own with any amount of struggle and effort.

Joyce Meyer

#14. Individuality is a real power inherent in all and the development and consequent expression of this power enables one to assume the responsibility of directing his own footsteps rather than stampeding after some self-assertive bell-wether.

Charles F. Haanel

#15. He knew his love for her was more a desire to save her, to be her superhero, and it was partly a desire to do what people who are in love do, and partly a desire to feel young again with her, because Ying Li was very young, and she looked even younger.

Francois Lelord

#16. The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.

Jeff Deck

#17. As a director, you have to understand what is happening - if I don't understand it, you can't make changes.

Marjane Satrapi

#18. When I was 24, I co-founded a company called Athenahealth which built the first Web-based software and back-office service suite for doctors' offices.

Todd Park

#19. I am more than a face and a body. I am Hira. But no one wishes to know Hira.

Nalini Singh

#20. Whenever I'd go to restaurants, the main chef came out and was cooking for me, and he's asking me how the food is. I get, like, VIP service, so it's weird.

Inbee Park

#21. How was the sermon?" "Was it a good service?" Same blank stare from the ancestors. In those days, churches didn't have to be rockin' it, nobody expected the preacher to hit it out of the park, and the service was, well, a service.

Michael S. Horton

#22. The Secret Intelligence Service I knew occupied dusky suites of little rooms opposite St James's Park Tube station in London.

John Le Carre

#23. Fancy 'avin' to say you work for the Murder Squad, eh, Miss? Don't exactly warm folk to you, does it?

Jacqueline Winspear

#24. I had a dream about starting a dating service for fish. In unrelated news, I will never drink again.

Jessica Park

#25. I think that it is our intention to deny cancer any control over us.

Elizabeth Edwards

#26. Success is just a little more effort.

Sydney J. Harris

#27. Secret Service agents detained an Iowa man with a gun who happened to be walking in a Des Moines park where President Bush was jogging. Were they out of their minds? White guys with guns put Bush in the White House.

Argus Hamilton

#28. I believe that as public servants, we have a shared goal - to deliver to Americans the service they deserve and expect.

Todd Park

#29. What we earn in life? People heart? Enemies? Just think, why we live this world? Be pleasant, Be honest, Be peaceful.

Samdoss

#30. If depression was a choice, no one would choose it. Depression is not a choice.

Northern Adams