130 Parking Quotes

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The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spacesUnknown

Only in america will you see people circling the parking lot looking for a close space at a gym. — Don King

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. - Will Rogers

The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking spaces. — Will Rogers

Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can't even hold a job PARKING CARS! — Sylvester Stallone

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving. — Steven Wright

A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!" — Henny Youngman

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. — Groucho Marx

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. — Jules Renard

We're crazy about this city. Los Angeles? That's just a big parking lot where you buy a hamburger for the trip to San Francisco. — John Lennon

Storing your car in New York is safer than entering it in a demolition derby. But not much. — Daniel S. Greenberg

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions. — Ed Mcmahon

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan

When you're in your lane, there's no traffic. — Ava DuVernay

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. — E. M. Forster

The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Short Parking Quotes

  • your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. — Anthony Bourdain
  • Don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride. — Bill Hicks
  • I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park. — Dolly Parton
  • Welcome...to Jurassic Park! — Michael Crichton
  • An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike. — Spiro T. Agnew
  • Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. — John Muir
  • If you love something, set it free. — Abraham Lincoln
  • It is difficult to steer a parked car, so get moving. — Henrietta Mears
  • I love Orlando. I'm in Orlando six times a year. I love the theme parks. — James Murray
  • Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah. — Bridget Hall

Parking Image Quotes

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

Parking Garage Quotes

Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeless land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air. — Alistair Cooke

Your body is the garage where you park your soul. — Wayne Dyer

It's very likely that graduates, current employees and retirees have some wonderful pieces of Deer Park history in their closets or garages. — Matt Lucas

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

Glenn Beck retired or got fired...and a lot of people are asking who will now speak for the raving lunatics who startle you outside of a parking garage? — Bill Maher

Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there's old luggage, a couple of bikes. It's big enough to put one minivan in. That's it. No dartboard. I'm so not macho. — Dave Grohl

I hate it [driving] more than anything in the whole world. I'm just an awful, awful driver. I get lost, I hit things (parked cars, one moving car, a pole in my parking garage). Just when I think I got everything under control, I'll miss seeing something out of the corner of my mirror. — Rachael Leigh Cook

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

Parking at a garage is like going to a prostitute. Why pay for it when you can apply yourself, and then may be you can get it for free. — Jason Alexander

I guess the good news that the summer travel season that we were projecting is becoming a reality. We certainly felt that our numbers were going to be there. Our parking lots and parking garage have been full throughout the month. — Karen Carney

Humans will take a rain forest and lose it and cover it with concrete. They will take the woods and turn it into a parking garage and I am not saying that's bad. I am just saying that's what we do. We occupy the planet with a vengeance. We seek to dominate it. — Henry Rollins

When you've parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you've had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me? — Mario Cuomo

Parking Area Quotes

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas. — Ansel Adams

Be sure to lay wide streets planted with shady trees, every other of a quick-growing variety. Be sure that there is plenty of space for lawns and gardens, reserved large areas for football, hockey and parks. Earmark areas for Hindu temples, Mohammedan mosques and Christian churches. — Jamsetji Tata

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone? — Bruce Sterling

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them. — Fran Lebowitz

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration. — Dave Barry

Procedures outside the stadiums and in the parking areas still need to be optimized, for example so that emergency medical services can leave the grounds on their way to the hospital faster. — Otto Schily

So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park. — Norm Dicks

It always seems to me odd to call a place a wilderness when every wilderness area in the US bristles with rules and regulations as to how you can behave, what you're allowed to do, and is patrolled by armed rangers enforcing the small print. They're parks, of course, not wildernesses at all. — Jonathan Raban

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. — Helen Clark

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited. — David Cassidy

Parking Spots Quotes

Life is a journey, but don't worry, you'll find a parking spot at the end. — Isaac Asimov

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds. — J. Patrick Lewis

Men are like parking spaces: all the good ones are taken, and the available ones are handicapped. — Sayings

Men are like parking spots: sometimes I drive my car into them — Megan Amram

Parking is a nightmare for me... I still have sensors on my car that help me park. — Sayings

My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days. — Richard Schiff

And for all of you at home, you are all welcome to visit my store. You are also welcome to park off you motherparking parks, and go park yourself. But remember, don't park in a handicapped spot. — Carlos Mencia

Two of my fav pieces of wisdom from Phoebe: - Men are like parking spots. All the good ones are taken, and those that aren't are inaccessible. - Remember, it's always better to be the smartass rather than the dumbass. — Jill Shalvis

I will say that growing up as a kid in an urban environment and having lived in cities all my life, the one achievement that everyone can look forward to is getting the perfect parking spot. — Saul Perlmutter

I think a lot of nights together have been spoiled by somebody not being able to find a parking spot and saying, "Why don't we just go home?" — Paul Rust

Parking Space Quotes

I don't believe in angels, no. But I do have a wee parking angel. It's on my dashboard and you wind it up. The wings flap and it's supposed to give you a parking space. It's worked so far. — Billy Connolly

Don't ask God to cure cancer and world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space and fixing the weather for your barbecue. — Richard Dawkins

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. — Maya Angelou

A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand. — Renzo Piano

The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness. — Enrique Penalosa

Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. — Evan Esar

I love eating in it, brushing my teeth and swallowing the toothpaste in it. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space. — Laura Kightlinger

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space. — Will Rogers

33% of urban traffic is actively seeking a parking space. — Donald Shoup

Sometimes I park in handicap spaces while handicapped people make handicapped faces. — Denis Leary

Car Parks Quotes

I've never had the Lord say, 'Jesse, I think that car is a little bit too nice.' I've had vehicles and the Lord said, 'Would you please go park that at your house. Don't put that in front of my house. I don't want people to think that I'm a poor God.' — Jesse Duplantis

I have a free couple of hours," I told him, walking toward my car, which was parked on the next block. "There's a very private, very secluded barn in Lookout Hill Park behind the carousel. I could be there in fifteen minutes." I heard the smile in his voice. "You want me bad. — Becca Fitzpatrick

They always say that Albert Einstein was a genius. Then how come when anyone ever calls you that, it's an insult? 'You don't know where you parked the car? Good job, Einstein.' I don't think we're honoring that man properly by using his name in vain in parking lots. — Brian Regan

I didn't come from a trailer park. I grew up middle class and my dad had money and my mom made my lunch. I got a car when I was sixteen. I'm proud of that. — Kid Rock

It's hard to steer a parked car. — Jim Elliot

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures. — Paul D. Boyer

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition. There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like, when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit. — John Prine

I did archery when I was in high school. In our gym class we had two weeks of archery and I remember taking the bow and arrow and firing it up and across the street into a car parking lot. — Sayings

Nobody wants to stand behind a parked car. You got to always follow somebody who keeps it moving. — T. D. Jakes

Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things. — Rodney Mullen

Parking Meters Quotes

Another drunk goes up to a parking meter, puts in a quarter, the dial goes to 60. The drunk says, "Huh. I lost 100 pounds!" — Henny Youngman

When I climb a fourteener, a 14,000-foot/4,260-meter peak, in the winter by myself, I leave an itinerary and information about where my vehicle will be parked and the name of the county sheriff to contact in case I don't get home. — Aron Ralston

We live in a predatory capitalist society in which everything is for sale. Everybody is for sale, so there is ubiquitous commodification - be it of music, food, people, or parking meters. — Cornel West

Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter. — Greg Giraldo

The problems with conventional parking meters are myriad. Nevertheless, two advanced technologies, multispace parking meters and curb-space occupancy sensors, can make it much easier for users to pay for curb parking, and for cities to adjust prices to meet the demand. — Donald Shoup

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box. — Princess Diana

The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss. — Warren Buffett

If the wind is blowing like stink and everything is working right, a twelve-meter sailboat can go eleven and a half or twelve miles an hour, the same speed at which a bond lawyer runs around the Cental Park Reservoir. — P. J. O'Rourke

Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject. — Frederick Lenz

using parking meters as walking sticks. — Tom Waits

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More Parking Quotes

One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, "My little computer said such a funny thing this morning". — Alan Turing

Different people are afforded different opportunities. I've been given some awesome opportunities, and I feel that I've always knocked them out of the park. But I've always been scaled back after that. — CM Punk

I met Rosa Parks when I was 17. I met Dr. [Martin Luther] King when I was 18. These two individuals inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble. So I got in good trouble, necessary trouble. — John Lewis

We need to remember what's important in life: friends, waffles, work. Or waffles, friends, work, it doesn't matter. But work is third. — Amy Poehler

The more successfully a city mingles everyday diversity of uses and users in its everyday streets, the more successfully, casually (and economically) its people thereby enliven and support well-located parks that can thus give back grace and delight to their neighborhoods instead of vacuity. — Jane Jacobs

National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst. — Wallace Stegner

I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere. — Dr. Dre

Within National Parks is room--glorious room--room in which to find ourselves, in which to think and hope, to dream and plan, to rest and resolve. — Enos Mills

Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside? — Jackson Browne

I had a stroll like this in the park with somebody, and I saw the ice and I thought, 'what would happen if I go in there?' I was really attracted to it. I went in, got rid of my clothes. Thirty seconds I was in. Tremendous good feeling when I came out, and since then, I repeated it every day. — Wim Hof

Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us. We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops. — Maya Angelou

Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper. She showed the world that the color of your skin shouldn't determine what part of the bus you sit in... as you ride through life. — Richard Pryor

The first 2 years of being an entrepreneur is a roller coaster ride. The goal is to eventually own the roller coaster and the theme park. — Patrick Bet-David

Yeah but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should. — Jeff Goldblum

The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is no walk in the park or mere drum-beating and gong-clanging. — Xi Jinping

Every professional footballer should seek to play at least one game at Celtic Park. I have never felt anything like it. — Paolo Maldini

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it. — Michael Lewis

This is real human drama, we're not creating some amusement park ride for the summer. Even though the movie is really exciting to watch, it's got a real pathos behind it. — John C. Reilly

I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. — Lee Ann Womack

A basic cause of murmuring is that too many of us seem to expect that life will flow ever smoothly, featuring an unbroken chain of green lights with empty parking places just in front of our destinations!. — Neal A. Maxwell

The label of liberalism is hardly a sentence to public ignominy: otherwise Bruce Springsteen would still be rehabilitating used Cadillacs in Asbury Park and Jane Fonda, for all we know, would be just another overweight housewife. — Barbara Ehrenreich

Even though the National Guard and Army Reserve see combat today, it rankles me that people assume it was some kind of waltz in the park back then. — Larry David

I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over. — Jon Stewart

Each neighborhood of the city appeared to be made of a different substance, each seemed to have a different air pressure, a different psychic weight: the bright lights and shuttered shops, the housing projects and luxury hotels, the fire escapes and city parks. — Teju Cole

You’re carrying around this amazing garden inside you: your own garden or national park, however you want to view it. You’ve got to feed it right. — Tim Spector

I'm enjoying the opportunity that Parks And Recreation affords me to exploit my own soapbox agenda, which is to try to encourage people to make things with their hands. — Nick Offerman

The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it. — Stephen Breyer

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

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston. — James Spader

My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last? — Jane Austen

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