Streets Quotes
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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 -
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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As much as Id love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.
Holliday Grainger -
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.
Charles Loring Brace -
I still do not understand why we don't have people on the streets every single day raising their voices for climate.
Christiana Figueres -
The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.
JR artist -
Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.
Margaret Mitchell -
Atheists are suffering from bad PR. What if Sesame Street had an atheist character?
Dan Barker
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A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion.
Coco Chanel -
The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.
Carrot Top -
I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home
Tracy Chevalier -
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
Sofia Villani Scicolone -
New York and LA are both great places to visit, but I wouldn't want to live in either of them now. I find New York extremely claustrophobic and dirty. LA is quite a nice place. But there's no hustle and bustle, no street life.
Jonny Lee Miller -
Let the poet dream his dreams. Yet, the poet must look at the world; must enter into other men's lives; must look at the earth and the sky, must examine the dust in the street; must walk through the world and his mirror.
William Baziotes
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If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.
Serena Williams -
I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.
Mickey Kaus -
People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
Elizabeth Chandler -
The shadow moves across the darkened streets, surveying its domain. The fog is like a living thing.
Alexandra Sokoloff -
I would drive on streets that were one-way and think, "Why are they all honking at me?"
Sandra Cisneros -
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
William Faulkner
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Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.
Michael Cunningham -
You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.
Bob Marley -
Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.
Alice Cooper -
I picked up a man from the street, and he was eaten up alive from worms. Nobody could stand him, and he was smelling so badly. I went to him to clean him, and he asked, 'Why do you do this?' I said, 'Because I love you.'
Mother Teresa