Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, opened on July 17, 1955. It is the only theme park designed and built to completion under the direct supervision of Walt Disney. Profoundly inspirational Disneyland quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Disneyland Quotes
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. Walt Disney
Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy. Walt Disney
I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place. Walt Disney
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world. Walt Disney
Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone. Walt Disney
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make believe are reborn and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young in heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. Walt Disney
We believed in our idea a family park where parents and children could have fun together. Walt Disney
If Disneyland was indeed the Happiest Place on Earth, you’d either keep it a secret or the price of admission would be free and not equivalent to the yearly per capita income of a small sub Saharan African nation like Detroit. Paul Beatty
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make believe are reborn and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young in heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. Walt Disney
Disneyland is like a piece of clay If there is something I don’t like, I’m not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp. Walt Disney
Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do. Walt Disney
I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing that it was all started by a mouse. Walt Disney
The life’s work of Walt Disney and Ray Kroc had come full circle, uniting in perfect synergy. McDonald’s began to sell its hamburgers and french fries at Disney’s theme parks. The ethos of McDonaldland and of Disneyland, never far apart, have finally become one. Now you can buy a Happy Meal at the Happiest Place on Earth. Eric Schlosser
It has that thing the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement I knew when I was a kid. Walt Disney
Walt Disney wasn’t afraid of risk and failure. You do big things, you make big mistakes he says in Van Frances’s Window on Main Street. Chris Strodder
Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland? Walt Disney
My life written as a theater production would be considered a tragedy. My life written by the good times experienced, would be considered a fairytale. Richie Norton
To all who come to this happy place: Welcome. Disneyland is your land. Here age relives fond memories of the past, and here youth may savor the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America; with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration to all the world. Walt Disney
The idea of Saint Paul whirling around in the giant teacups wile composing First Corinthians, as Paris TV films him with a telephoto lens that just can’t be. Saint Paul would never go near Disneyland. Only children, tourists, and visiting Soviet high officials ever go to Disneyland. Saints do not. Philip K. Dick
Disneyland is a work of love. Walt Disney
People are obsessed with spectacle. We live in the society of the spectacle. People are addicted to the spectacular. They want bigger and better spectacles. They need more and more to keep them stimulated. They crave entertainment. They crave more powerful simulations, more breathtaking special effects, more everything. No one wants por plain old reality. Simulation hyperreality the simulacrum these are what the people desire. We all live in Disneyland now an utter fantasy world. Our true God is Mickey Mouse. At least he’s a lot nicer than Yahweh. Adam Weishaupt
Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role. Walt Disney
What’s wrong with Disneyland? It brings joy to millions and tutors children about the corporate, overbranded world they’ve been born into. Colson Whitehead
Adventure without risk is Disneyland. Douglas Coupland
If you want to experience Walt’s original Disneyland, Star Tours and Indiana Jones can wait. Slow down and enjoy the sounds of America’s past. Jim Denney
The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge. Walt Disney
The sign on Pooh Corner states Critter Country est. 1889 as a reference to the debut of Critter Country in 1989. Jim Korkis
Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I’m riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I’m happy. Famke Janssen
Then it would come time for Walt to tell his favorite joke What’s a four letter word for what’s at the bottom of his bird cage? Everyone would look at each other, wondering if Walt Disney was going to say that. And just when the tension was getting thick, Walt the on color jokester would say, Grit, Grit! Marcy Carriker Smothers
When I started on Disneyland, my wife used to say, But why do you want to build an amusement park? They’re so dirty. I told her that was just the point mine wouldn’t be. Walt Disney
Elevated to a symbol of American culture, Disneyland instantly became the equivalent of the Gothic cathedral and, as such, sums up a contemporary worldview from which architecture is disappearing. Francesco Proto
Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland the blessing of size. There’s enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine. Walt Disney
The archives acquired the original 1967 letter from then California Governor Ronald Reagan, written to the postmaster general, suggesting that a stamp be issued for Walt Disney. Reagan wrote, I hesitate to even mention California’s pride in his vast accomplishments for fear of detracting from his true image as a world renowned and world beloved figure. There is no necessity for me to itemize his contributions to humanity; they can be summed up by simply saying that because of him the world is a richer, better place. Dave Smith
I first saw the site for Disneyland back in 1953, In those days it was all flat land no rivers, no mountains, no castles or rocket ships just orange groves, and a few acres of walnut trees. Walt Disney
Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it, they will want to come back and see you do it again, and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do. Walt Disney
The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all. Walt Disney
When I was young and I was forced to watch Disney films, I would fast forward the good guys, wasn’t interested in princes and princesses, only by the villains. Nuno Roque
I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it. Walt Disney
I hate to say it, but Mom is right. You can’t stay mad in Disneyland. Lindsey Leavitt
We’re an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland. Maureen Reagan
One thing I’d learned growing up was that no matter who claimed you, you had to first claim yourself. Ridley Pearson
You can go at the premiere it’s at Disneyland. Emily Blunt
Walt also had a humorous sign posted outside the mansion, recruiting ghosts who wanted to enjoy active retirement in the country club atmosphere of this fashionable address. Interested ghosts were to write to the Ghost Relations Dept. Disneyland, and were told, Do not apply in person. Leslie Le Mon
Disneyland is not just another amusement park. It’s unique, and I want it kept that way. Besides, you don’t work for a dollar you work to create and have fun. Walt Disney
You are not in Disneyland, he said. The little people you see running around over here are not Mouseketeers. Some of them are friendly, and some of them have a strong desire to kill you. If you remember that, and manage to kill them before they kill you, then you have a good chance of getting through your year of service here. Walter Dean Myers
It’s something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing and adding to. Walt Disney
Don’t pursue anything that doesn’t fill your soul with joy because you can always go to Disneyland. Shannon L. Alder
It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment. Walt Disney
How can you expect people never to hurt you? That is not possible, not even in disney land. Paul Bamikole
Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money. Walt Disney
I would have skipped the following day if I could have. I ddin’t even like Disney World. I was, in fact, slightly afraid of it. When Khrushchev visited Disneyland in 1959, he wasn’t allowed in. It was said that the American authorities couldn’t guarantee his safety inside. And whatever else Khrushchev was, I would have backed him against an infantry division. Austin Grossman
Biggest problem? Well, I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life. Money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance. Walt Disney
Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality. Charles Bukowski
Disneyland celebrated its 40th anniversary by burying a time capsule. They say it will be dug up in 50 years or when the last person in line at Space Mountain gets to the front, whichever comes first. Jay Leno
People who go to Disney who have magic in themselves experience magic there, just as people who go to the grocery store who have magic in themselves experience magic at the grocery store. The principle is simple fun, joy, and happiness, are something we bring to life, not something life, circumstance, or situation bring to us. There are truly no magic kingdoms, only magic people. Fun, joy and happiness are choices, orientations, approaches, attitudes, a way of living in the world, not the world itself. David W. Jones
The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality. John Hench
Unless you’re under 12 or into role playing, you shouldn’t be wearing Mickey Mouse ears. Andy Ostrom
I’m not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don’t really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take. Anjelica Huston
Compared to the rest of the world, it’s like we’re living in Disneyland. David Servant
The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes. Marvin Olasky
The Missouri of his childhood was theoretically the inspiration for Main Street, U.S.A., though only in its halcyon summer vacation months and stripped of any dismal memories no blizzards, no doctor’s office, and no school house. Almost no one has a dismal experience in Walt Disney’s America, as a matter of fact, at least not that Walt noticed. Eve Zibart
Why do we have to grow up? I know more adults who have the children’s approach to life. They’re people who don’t give a hang what the Joneses do. You see them at Disneyland every time you go there. They are not afraid to be delighted with simple pleasures, and they have a degree of contentment with what life has brought sometimes it isn’t much, either. Walt Disney
We leave a Disney park reassured. We have opened our eyes to the world of the possible. We have experienced the better world. And by the way, we have fun while we were being entertained, and reassured. Martin A. Sklar
I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park. I want to feel they’re in another world. Walt Disney
