Subway Quotes

• It's not where you start but where you finish.

  April Heinrichs

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

  Stanley Crouch

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Highways

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Investing Money, People

  "Student to CEO" by Simon Dixon. Ecademy Press, p. 125, 2011.

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• The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

  Paul Simon

  Wall, Silence, Words Of Wisdom

  Song: The Sound Of Silence

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• I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

  Ray Bradbury

  People, Watches, Looks

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.14, Hamilton Books

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• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  People, Democracy, Library

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• New York is so diverse. When you're on the street or in the subway, you're experiencing more of the diversity of New York.

  Chloe Sevigny

  New York, Diversity, Streets

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• New York has a thousand universes in it that don't always connect but we do all walk the same streets, hear the same sirens, ride the same subways, see the same headlines in the Post, read the same writings on the walls. That shared landscape gets inside of all of us and, in some small way, unites us, makes us think we know each other even when we don't.

  Jay-Z

  New York, Wall, Writing

  Jay-Z (2010). “Decoded (Enhanced Edition)”, p.108, Random House Group

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• I seen her in the subway, on my way to Brooklyn.
  "Hello, good lookin, is this seat tooken?"
  
  On the A Train, pickin at her brain,
  I couldn't get her number, I couldn't get her name.
  
  I said, "I still like your style and fashion,
  But I hate your hot sadiddy attitude wit a passion.
  Is it because brothers like to hawk a lot?
  Is it because your sign don't talk a lot?"
  
  She turned away, no play, I said, "OK,
  You don't really look good, I hope you have a bad day."

  Rakim

  Fashion, Brother, Attitude

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• Don't sleep in the subway, darling.

  Petula Clark

  Sleep, Advice, Darling

  Song: Don't Sleep In The Subway

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• You sit or stand in the subway, and you look around - I do, because I don't have a phone so I'm not playing a game - and you see people.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Phones, Games, People

  "The Voice: Fran Lebowitz". Interview with Francesco Clemente, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 11, 2016.

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• In New York, you've got Donald Trump, Woody Allen, a crack addict and a regular Joe, and they're all on the same subway car.

  Ethan Hawke

  New York, Car, Cracks

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• There's nothing surprising about me. I'm dull. I am a fan of the New York subway. I love it.

  Brian F. O'Byrne

  New York, Fans, Dull

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• I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Mom, Mother, Rags

  "Sharpton answers Bush in speech". www.cnn.com. July 29, 2004.

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• Life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

  Al Sharpton

  Life Is, Family Values, Pocketbooks

  2004 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 28 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Travel, New York, Fun

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• I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Lonely, New York, Social

  "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Interview with Marisa Fox, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.

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• The rumble of a subway train,
  the rattle of the taxis.

  Al Dubin

  Rumble, Taxi, Train

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• I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic.

  Joe Scarborough

  Worry, Car, Guy

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• I once asked a policeman how far it was to the subway. he said, "I don't know, no one has ever made it".

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Humor, Said

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• You learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you're a New Yorker? The world doesn't owe you a damn thing.

  Lauren Bacall

  New York, Childhood, Riding

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

  Paul Giamatti

  Guy, Want, Freak

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• An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

  Garrison Keillor

  Running, New York, Cities

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• I leave you, home,
  when I'm ripped from the doorstep
  by commerce or fate. Then I submit
  to the awful subway of the world.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Fate, World

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Everyone has this sense of togetherness right now. For example, one guy on the subway today, he wanted to share my pants.

  David Letterman

  Guy, Example, Today

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