Avenues Quotes - Page 6

• On the Avenue in front of the White House were several hundred colored people, mostly women and children, weeping and wailing their loss. This crowd did not diminish through the whole of that cold, wet day; they seemed not to know what was to by their fate since their great benefactor was dead, and though strong and brave men wept when I met them, the hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

  Gideon Welles

  Strong, Children, War

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• Individuals interested in donating can call The Bridge. We do still need food, paper products, money, cleaning supplies - if people could call and coordinate donations. People loved donating clothing to The Bridge - it was an avenue; if they could put their focus on collecting cleaning supplies - toilet paper, food etc. - these items are a priority.

  Maggie Elizabeth Jones

  Bridges, People, Focus

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• My picture, Fifth Avenue, Winter is the result of a three hours' stand during a fierce snow-storm on February 22nd 1893, awaiting the proper moment. My patience was duly rewarded. Of course, the result contained an element of chance, as I might have stood there for hours without succeeding in getting the desired pictures.

  Alfred Stieglitz

  Winter, Snow, Storm

  Alfred Stieglitz, Richard Whelan, Sarah Greenough (2000). “Stieglitz on photography: his selected essays and notes”

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• I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

  Anthony Trollope

  New York, Thinking, Fifth Avenue

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “North America”, p.208, Applewood Books

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• The avenues in my neighborhood are Pride, Covetousness and Lust; the cross streets are Anger, Gluttony, Envy and Sloth. I live over on Sloth, and the style on our street is to avoid the other thoroughfares.

  John Chancellor

  Anger, Pride, Envy

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• Burns, has spent years exploring the many avenues for adventure and fun in San Diego. The fact that you can experience the desert, snow, mountains and ocean in the course of a day has always been amazing to me. If you are really motivated, you can snow ski, surf, take a mountain hike, and race dune buggies all in one weekend, .. I grew up here and want to showcase San Diego to the world. I love San Diego.

  Robert Burns

  Fun, Ocean, Adventure

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• There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Men, Race

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.16

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• Remembrance, like Rembrandt, is dark but festive. Remembered ones dress up for the occasion and sit still. Memory is a photo-studio de luxe on an infinite Fifth Power Avenue.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Memories, Dark, Remembrance

  "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle". Book by Vladimir Nabokov, 1969.

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• There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Art, Passion, Science

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• I do not believe that Congress or the Administration should prohibit the medical community from pursuing a promising avenue of research that may improve the lives of millions of Americans.

  Tom Allen

  Believe, Community, Research

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• I'm 82 years old, wherever I go everybody knows me, but here's why... I'm a merchandiser, I'm not just a writer, I stay in every avenue you can think of.

  Mickey Spillane

  Thinking, Years, Literature

  Interview with Michael Carlson, Crime Time, 2001.

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• I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Irritation, Torture, Humiliation

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• The older I get, the more and more I notice I'm like my father. It's funny, because when I was younger I tried to just back away from my father as much as I could, and some of the philosophies, some of the life lessons, some of the beliefs that he had within me are always constantly ongoing, and they're always prevalent in my life, whether it's trying to be every single thing that I can be in my sport or life or relationship or business, whatever avenue I'm pursuing.

  Apolo Ohno

  Sports, Father, Philosophy

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• But 'This Town' is official Washington. It's political Washington. It's not the Washington that clogs New York Avenue. It's not the Washington that lives in Gaithersburg. It's not the Washington that accounts for most of the population. 'This Town' refers to the people who think they run your country.

  Mark Leibovich

  Running, Country, New York

  "Mark Leibovich on ‘the people who think they run your country’". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. July 22, 2013.

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• If we cannot end the conflict, we have an inescapable moral duty to help refugees and provide legal avenues to safety.

  Angelina Jolie

  Safety, Helping, Moral

  Angelina Jolie's Address to UN Security Council on ongoing refugee crisis in Syria, www.unrefugees.org. April 24, 2015.

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• I saw that Donald Trump is selling his penthouse suite at the Trump Park Avenue building here in New York City for $21 million. When asked why he's selling it now, Trump said 'Hey, Americans seem to be buying everything else I'm selling, so why not strike while the iron's hot.'

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Cities, Iron

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• When we look in to the long avenue of the future, and see the good there is for each one of us to do, we realize, after all, what a beautiful thing it is to work, and to live, and to be happy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beautiful, Long, Looks

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• I start off but I don't know where I'm going; I try this avenue and that avenue, that turns out to be a dead end, this is a dead end, and so on. The search takes a long time and I have to back-track often.

  Galway Kinnell

  Long, Track, Trying

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• The problem of how to make the Internet advertising friendly bewildered and obsessed Madison Avenue for much of the 1990s. Advertising won.

  Robert Waterman McChesney

  Friendly, Advertising, Problem

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• It's always fun to try something new. People think every avenue has been explored on TV, but this has never been done. That, in itself, really excites me.

  William Moseley

  Fun, Thinking, People

  "William Moseley Talks THE ROYALS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 19, 2015.

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• I guess I probably took New York for granted. Growing up, playing in the street, going down to the Avenue to the record store and to the grocery store and stuff like that.

  Noah Baumbach

  New York, Growing Up, Stuff

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.

  Nelly

  Artist, Challenges, Trying

  Source: www.complex.com

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• In this day and age, love is temporary and marriage is unnatural--the product of Madison Avenue advertising executives and television producers.

  Michael Palmer

  Love, Age, Television

  Michael Palmer (2007). “The Fifth Vial”, p.34, Macmillan

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• I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Jobs, Love You

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• I don't drink coffee I take tea my dear, I like my toast done on one side. And you can hear it in my accent when I talk, I'm an Englishman in New York. See me walking down Fifth Avenue, a walking cane here at my side. I take it everywhere I walk, I'm an Englishman in New York. I'm an alien I'm a legal alien, I'm an Englishman in New York.

  Sting

  Travel, New York, Coffee

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