Disney's Land Quotes

“When he reached middle age … it seemed that we were going to witness an all-too-familiar process - the conversion of the tired artist into the tired businessman. When in 1955 we heard that Disney had opened an amusement park under his own name, it appeared certain that we could not look forward to anything new from Mr. Disney. We were quite wrong. He had, instead, created his masterpiece.”
― Richard Snow, Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

“...it symbolized what we mean to people: We are not a cure for cancer, we are not going to save the world, but if we can make people that happy for a few hours a day, then we are doing something worthwhile. (quoting Jack Lindquist)”
― Richard Snow, Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

“But people keep outgrowing their outgrowing,”
― Richard Snow, Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

“The present is a bully, always making us think the molten moment we inhabit is the most alarming ever, while the past tends to slip into that specious category of “simpler times.”
― Richard Snow, Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World