74 Central Park Quotes

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On 139 and Lenox Ave there's a big park, and if you're soft don't go through it when it gets dark — Big L

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. - Desmond Morris

The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. — Desmond Morris

The city is not a concrete jungle. It is a human zoo. — Desmond Morris

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach. — Ayn Rand

Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts. — O. Henry

No one comes to New York and says 'We've got to check out Times Square and Spa Castle!' — Joe Gatto

Yosemite Park... None can escape its charms. Its natural beauty cleans and warms like a fire, and you will be willing to stay forever in one place like a tree. — John Muir

I would give the greatest sunset in the world for one sight of New York's skyline. — Ayn Rand

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan. — James Van Der Beek

How can you be organized when you're in Times Square? — Mary-Kate Olsen

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

New York, the nation's thyroid gland. — Christopher Morley

If you're not in New York, you're camping out. — Thomas E. Dewey

If I had to choose a single destination where I'd be held captive for the rest of my time in New York, I’d choose the Metropolitan Museum of Art. — Tim Gunn

The national park is the best idea America ever had. — James Bryce

Short Central Park Quotes

  • New York is an exciting town where something is happening all the time, most unsolved. — Johnny Carson
  • I watched the mighty skyline fall — Billy Joel
  • Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much. — Daniel S. Greenberg
  • If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. — Grace Kelly
  • We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway. — Will Durant
  • I live a very quiet life, although I'm very urban and a diehard New Yorker — Armand Assante
  • New York is not Mecca. It just smells like it. — Neil Simon
  • A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster

Central Park Image Quotes

Central park quote The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces.

New York Central Park Quotes

Central Park is the grandiose symbol of the front yard each child in New York hasn't got. — Robert Benchley

I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny. — Rick Riordan

I say to my colleague from New York that if someone who has a concealed carry permit... in the State of South Dakota that goes to New York and is in Central Park - Central Park is a much safer place. — John Thune

Central park quote The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'. — Paul Merton

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations. — John Muir

If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera. — Matt Smith

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More Central Park Quotes

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk. — Hoda Kotb

My favorite place is Central Park because you never know what you're going to find there. I also like that when I look out the windows of surrounding hotels, it's seems like I'm looking out over a forest. — Haley Joel Osment

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday. — Jackson Browne

Central park quote Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

When I am walking in Central Park, I recognize the Italians. Because an Italian, even when he jogs, he's dressed perfect. — Diego Della Valle

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that. — Barack Obama

I was always the last one chosen for football games in Central Park. — Merlin Olsen

I've been riding the carousel in Central Park since I was five years old. If I'm very depressed or if something's bothering me today, my husband, Larry, and I go back to the park. We get on the carousel horse and we start riding, and I start singing at the top of my lungs. It is pure and absolute joy and happiness. — Eda LeShan

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park — Andy Roddick

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar. — Herbie Mann

Joy comes from places you least expect it. Its usually the simple things, like watching my son play basketball or going through Central Park when the blossoms are blooming. — Dave Gahan

Disney's something to be a little alarmed about. It's not just a little theme park anymore. It's now an ethic and outlook and strategy that goes way beyond central Florida. — Carl Hiaasen

I saw a robin redbreast in Central Park today, but it turned out to be a sparrow with an exit wound. — David Letterman

The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake Okeechobee to the border of Everglades National Park, where the restoration effort is being concentrated, .. Obviously the movement to save the Everglades runs up against agricultural concerns. — Carl Hiaasen

I love Central Park. I spend a lot of time in there. I try and get in there whenever I can. — Sayings

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park. — Jim Moran

It's always been eclectic; you never know what you're going to get. — Andre Agassi

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver. — Darren Flutie

Running in Central Park is my favorite thing to wake up and do. I have my own specific path that I have to run every single time. There's a little bit of OCD involved, but I love it. — Nate Ruess

Oh, a lion hunter in the jungle dark, And a sleeping drunkard up in central park, and a Chinese dentist and a British queen All fit together in the same machine. Nice, nice, such very different people in the same device! — Kurt Vonnegut

And I'm going to tell the truth: I didn't like that Sean Penn movie Into the Wild so much. Yes! I know it was critically acclaimed. I know it won all these awards! It's very sad that a boy is dead and all. But I thought the movie Enchanted, with the singing princess and the chipmunk and the people dancing in Central Park, was cuter. So there! — Meg Cabot

I live about four muggings from Central Park. — Henny Youngman

Hugh [Evans] called us. And obviously this has been on our radar for all the years it`s been going on. And each year obviously reaches more and more people, and it`s high profile. Hugh reached out to our manager just down the street. And we said we`re here [ on GLOBAL CITIZEN in the Central Park] to help and do whatever we can. — Lars Ulrich

I run in Central Park, I love that place. That's the beauty of running, I had my jacket, my tight and my gloves - my gloves never leave my backpack. Just in case. — Meb Keflezighi

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes. — Tommy Tune

A peacock escaped from the Central Park Zoo and wandered around the city. Either that or I just saw a pigeon on his way to a gay pride parade. — Jimmy Fallon

I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod. — Hoda Kotb

I'm the only woman who can walk in Central Park at night... and reduce the crime rate. — Phyllis Diller

Just walking in the kitchen (and we have three kitchens at Le Bernardin), I exercise quite a lot. I also walk in Central Park for 50 minutes from my house to Le Bernardin every day, rain, shine, snow. — Eric Ripert

Clary grinned. "A picnic? It's a little late for Central Park, don't you think? It's full of - " He waved a hand. "Faeries. I know." "I was going to say muggers," said Clary. "Though I pity the mugger who goes after you." "That is a wise attitude, and I commend you for it," said Jace, looking gratified. — Cassandra Clare

We went to Central Park in a horse-drawn carriage. We had this huge suite of rooms at The Plaza Hotel, with a TV in each room, and we had radios with earpieces. This was too far out. — Ringo Starr

Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides. — Laura Chinchilla

But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night. — Joan Rivers

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. — James Wolcott

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park. — Diana Ross

We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable. We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a front to his headquarters. It was fine. — James Stewart

It's funny because I think a lot of it is simply... We've never considered ourselves satirists, but because we're on Comedy Central and because we're South Park on Comedy Central, we can do any topic we want. — Trey Parker

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them. — Stephen Sondheim

[ Hosting Saturday Night Live ] paved the way for Parks And Rec and The Grinder, the Comedy Central Roast, and that whole side of my career. — Rob Lowe

That might be the old model: to get a fixed fee. You have to start to think about other models and how they can generate interest - what it can do for a brand in the future - and about the fact that revenue can also be generated in many other ways... Just look at the one and a half million people at the free Rolling Stones concert in Cuba. And Cuba is not Central Park! So just use your imagination as to what kind of revenue can be made. — Martin Sorrell

I run from Horatio Street down just past Battery Park City and back. It's amazing to run and see the Statue of Liberty and the ferries coming in. People think if you're not near Central Park, there's nowhere to go, but there's a whole ecosystem happening down here. — Andy Cohen

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