P. Parks Quotations

My father used to make things a lot. He was always in the shed making things. In Grand Day Out, Wallace builds a rocket, and it reminded me of my dad.

I had a tremendous interest and I just kept plugging away and knocking at doors, you know, seeking out encouragement where I could get it.

I don't think we're doing our kids a service anymore. We're starting too young. We're burning them out. We're doing too much too early.

That was my first day in Washington, D.C., in 1942. I had experienced a kind of bigotry and discrimination here that I never expected to experience.

Well, I was born in Kansas, raised in Minnesota and spent a good part of my early life, up until I was about fifteen or sixteen, in Kansas.

It looks like confidence has slowly returned to the equity market. We have seen very strong growth indicators and more benign inflation indicators -- that is an ideal scenario.

It's like people expect me to criticize my mother who died when I was fifteen because all I knew from her was perfection, you know?

I had to give it up, but I really missed it, and I still do. I still go to some games and I find myself this many years later not watching the game but critiquing the officiating in the stands.

I had hard times, but I didn't give up. The injury got better, and the pitching and focus got better, and a better team and better people people (who) make me more comfortable.

It has turned up the heat a bit to now give out an Oscar to a full-length animated feature. I think everyone was more relaxed before.

Hinson just doubled up on top of him, and I looked up and the stands were clearing. Everything was happening. I dove between them to get them apart, and I looked up and (another official) Jimmy Hudson had the coaches at center court. We met out at center court and the coaches agreed with us that there wasn't any way we were going to complete the game.