Streets Quotes
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It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.
Emily Dickinson
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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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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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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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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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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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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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When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!
Richard Pryor
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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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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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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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In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
Eleanor Farjeon
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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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Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!
Walt Whitman
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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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Streets moderate the form and structure and comfort of urban communities.
Allan Jacobs
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I'm only as successful as the guy that lives down the street from me.
Jon Bon Jovi
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Communities of color don't understand what it means to be a police officer, the fear that police officers have in just being on the streets.
Eric Holder
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For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.
Thomas More
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I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
Christiana Figueres
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And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
Catherynne M. Valente