Streets Quotes
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It was a very rare moment in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant accident. Ordinary people went out to the streets to speak anti-nuclear sentiments.
Ryuichi Sakamoto
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
John Milton
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I'm a big history buff so to walk the streets...the ancient world like that was pretty astounding.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"
Hakeem Seriki
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I do not think anyone should feel pressured into doing it but I am the sucker who will stop on the street and sign up to direct debits.
Kate Thornton
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Pride of opinion has been responsible for the downfall of more men on Wall Street than any other factor.
Charles Dow
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I kinda came into my manhood, or what I thought was my adulthood, early. I had to show up, and I had to make sure I had gas money, food money, rent money, clothes money - everything was on me, startin' at that age, so that's what led me to start hustlin', that's what led me to start to try to find ways to fend for myself. And once I did that, I was full-time, bein' in the street, and, bein' in the street, it's cold. It's the way the streets operate, and you have to adapt to that.
Nipsey Hussle
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You cannot meet someone for a moment, or even cast eyes on someone in the street, without changing. That is my subject.
Carolyn Kizer
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I worry that friends will slowly become professional pallbearers, waiting for each death, of their lovers, friends and neighbors, and polishing their funeral speeches; perfecting their rituals of death rather than a relatively simple ritual of life such as screaming in the streets.
David Wojnarowicz
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In the streets the children screamed. The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed
Don McLean
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We live in a capitalist system; anyone who believes they are above this system or purer than this system, even while shopping at the cute organic market across the street or taking a hiking vacation to Guatemala, is certifiable.
Katy Lederer
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I go out in the streets, and I go to shows, and I see my fans turn from "I like your last rap" to "I feel your movement; you're keeping it all the way real." One thing I've always said is that's never been my story, and I'm not going to go back on my word.
Hakeem Seriki
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If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.
Brigham Young
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The street has its own use for things.
William Gibson
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The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.
Nicholas Charles Goepper
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Twenty-five years ago I couldn`t walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don`t ask me about my movies and they don`t ask me about my salad dressing because they don`t know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.
Paul Newman
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If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.
Studs Terkel
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When I'm in New York, I just want to walk down the street and feel this thing, like I'm in a movie.
Ryan Adams
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A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
Cass McCombs
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I consciously chose a person like the bounty killer of the Fistful trilogy because he was the street sweeper of the desert, a man who put his life at risk exclusively for the money. I'm not saying that he went against the law, but he put himself within the wings of the law only when it was something that he could profit by.
Sergio Leone
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Everything hurt. I closed my eyes, pressing my cheek to the street, and waited. What for, I didn't know. To be rescued. Or found. But no one came. All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
Sarah Dessen
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I grew up in them streets, like everyone else but instead of pushin' drugs, I pushed knowledge of self
Lawrence "Kris" Parker Boogie Down Productions
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The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.
Tommy Chong
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I want to make a picture that could stand on its own, regardless of what it was a picture of. I've never been a bit interested in the fact that this was a picture of a blues musician or a street corner or something.
William Eggleston