These Disneyland quotes will inspire you. The Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging Disneyland quotes, Disneyland sayings, and Disneyland proverbs.
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
- “I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place…” ~ Walt Disney
- “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow, and fantasy.” ~ 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
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“We believed in our idea – a family park where parents and children could have fun- together.” ~ 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
- “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
- “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.” ~ Walt Disney
- “It has that thing – the imagination, and the feeling of happy excitement- I knew when I was a kid.” ~ Walt Disney
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“Why be a governor or senator when you can be king of Disneyland?” ~ Walt Disney
- “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
- “Disneyland is a work of love.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” ~ Douglas Coupland
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“The idea of Disneyland is a simple one. It will be a place for people to find happiness and knowledge.” ~ Walt Disney
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
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“The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ~ Walt Disney
- “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
- “We’re an ideal political family, as accessible as Disneyland.” ~ Maureen Reagan
- “You can go at the premiere it’s at Disneyland.” ~ Emily Blunt
- “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
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“It’s something that will never be finished. Something that I can keep developing…and adding to.” ~ Walt Disney
- “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
- “Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.” ~ Walt Disney
- “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 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
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“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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “I don’t want the public to see the world they live in while they’re in the Park (Disneyland). I want to feel they’re in another world.” ~ Walt Disney
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“Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Disneyland is something that will never be finished. It’s something that I can keep developing. It will be a live, breathing thing that will need change. A picture is a thing, once you wrap it up and turn it over to Technicolor, you’re through. Snow White is a dead issue with me. But I can change the park, because it’s alive.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, the dreams, and the hard facts that have created America…” ~ Walt Disney
- “I’d say it’s been my biggest problem all my life… it’s money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Well it took many years. I started with many ideas, threw them away, started all over again. And eventually it evolved into what you see today at Disneyland” ~ Walt Disney
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“Disneyland would be a world of Americans, past and present, seen through the eyes of my imagination–a place of warmth and nostalgia, of illusion and color and delight.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.” ~ Jean Baudrillard
- “Besides, you don’t work for a dollar – you work to create and have fun.” ~ Walt Disney
- “I just want it to look like nothing else in the world. And it should be surrounded by a train.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Disneyland is a show.” ~ Walt Disney
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“We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Disneyland will always be building and growing and adding new things… new ways of having fun, of learning things, and sharing the many exciting adventures which may be experienced here in the company of family and friends.” ~ Walt Disney , Disneyland quotes about family
- “Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.” ~ Walt Disney
- “There’s no way New Orleans will ever be the city it was. I think it will have half the population. They may create a sort of Disneyland at the French Quarter for tourists. The rest I don’t know” ~ Geraldo Rivera
- “I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.” ~ Steve Cropper
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“One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.” ~ Bobby Sherman
- “The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you’re driving up ‘There it is! We’re arriving!'” ~ John Hench
- “Las Vegas without Wayne Newton is like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse.” ~ Merv Griffin
- “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
- “There is no other way the world is going to see the supreme glory of Christ today, except that we break free from the Disneyland of America and begin to live lifestyles of missionary sacrifice that looks to the world like our treasure is in heaven and not on the earth.” ~ John Piper
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“I could never convince the financiers that Disneyland was feasible, because dreams offer too little collateral.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Why would I want to be president? I’m the king of Disneyland.” ~ Walt Disney
- “When we opened Disneyland, a lot of people got the impressions that it was a get-rich-quick thing, but they didn’t realize that behind Disneyland was this great organization that I built here at the Studio, and they all got into it and we were doing it because we loved to do it.” ~ Walt Disney
- “I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother’s an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.” ~ Gwen Stefani
- “When in fact we live in a society that makes life hell for gays and lesbians, this community has got to stand up and say, ‘We’re on your side as you struggle for dignity,’ and, ‘Yes, we will defy anybody who says otherwise, even if we have to go to Disneyland to prove it.’” ~ Tony Campolo
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“When you’re a kid and you go to Disneyland or Disneyworld and you’re so pumped and then you go when you’re grown up and it’s not as much fun as you remember it.” ~ Michelle Chamuel
- “I always love coming to Disneyland but celebrating my birthday here with my family, friends and the kids from YSA is really awesome!, this is a night I’ll never forget.” ~ Miley Cyrus , Disneyland quotes love
- “Disneyland is such a big thing to Californians, I discovered that when you cross the border you have to raise your right hand and take an oath that you believe in Walt Disney.” ~ Jack Paar
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“We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.” ~ Walt Disney
- “Disneyland really began when my two daughters were very young. Saturday was always Daddy’s Day and I would take them to the merry-go-round, and sit on a bench eating peanuts while they rode. And sitting there alone, I felt there should be something built, some kind of family park where parents and children could have fun together.” ~ Walt Disney
- “I love Vegas. It’s like going to Disneyland.” ~ Vanessa Marcil
