11 Quotes by P. Parks

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.