#parks

There are guys who grow up thinking they'll settle down some distant time in the future, and there are guys who are ready for marriage as soon as they meet the right person. The former bore me, mainly because they're pathetic; and the latter, frankly are hard to find. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #nicholas-sparks #the-last-song #marriage

Marriage is a partnership, not a democracy. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#marriage #nicholas-sparks #novels #romance #wedding

As a girl, she had come to believe in the ideal man -- the prince or knight of her childhood stories. In the real world, however, men like that simply didn't exist. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#fiction #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #reality #romance

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

#bus #down #had #montgomery #parks

I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying. ↗

— Tommy Bond

#arrested #bobby #broke #chief #conversation

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

#baseball #big #cathedrals #europe #got

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? ↗

— Ada Cambridge

#hold #life #momentary #must #sparks

Rosa Parks' courage, determination, and tenacity continue to be an inspiration to all those committed to non-violent protest and change nearly half a century later. ↗

— Bob Filner

#change #committed #continue #courage #determination

As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an abyss where life is either extinguished , or exhibits but a few sparks to mark its lingering presence. ↗

— Edward Forbes

#approach #become #deeper #descend #either

We have a certain group of people in this country that seem to want to lock up our national treasures, our national parks, and cherished places and keep the public from enjoying them. ↗

— Don Sherwood

#cherished #country #enjoying #group #keep