Streets Quotes
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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
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When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
Richard Pryor
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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 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 people that I see on the street, they treat me more as a human being and not just an icon or a football player.
Ricky Williams
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It is like a party all the time; nobody has to worry about giving one or being invited; it is going on every day in the street and you can go down or be part of it from your window.
Eleanor Clark
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The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour.
Charles Dickens
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Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.
Stephen Carter
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The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.
Michael K. Williams
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I would love to dive into an indie film based on the streets of East Los Angeles where I grew up. If that doesn't come my way soon, I think I just might have to write it myself.
Michael Trevino
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Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.
Allen Tate
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Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.
William Franklin Beedle Jr.
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Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
Mother Teresa
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Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
Dan Barker
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I am not scared, I will not be silenced, and I will continue to take to the streets and criticise any wrong doing that I see.
Asmaa Mahfouz
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The street is the best way to become a good footballer.
Michel Platini
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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Walt Whitman
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When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.
Bernie Glassman
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Obviously from childhood to my teenage years, I really came into my own. I left the house early; I was on the streets when I was, like, 15. I've been holdin' my own since that age.
Nipsey Hussle
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By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
Allan Jacobs
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If we cared about safer streets, we'd build the wall and secure the border.
Matt Gaetz
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The street finds its own uses for things.
William Gibson
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The questions that consume me, that keep me up at night, are the people that are sleeping on the streets.
Eric Garcetti