City Streets Quotes

• It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him.

  Mike Royko

  Running, Dog, Cities

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• There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

  Markus Zusak

  Cities, People, Stranger

  Markus Zusak (2014). “Markus Zusak: The Book Thief & I Am the Messenger”, p.472, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Success, Cities, Discipline

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• Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

  Lana Del Rey

  Mistake, Cities, Design

  Song: Born to Die, Album: Born To Die, 2012

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• You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nature, Buddhism, Cities

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• I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

  Helen Keller

  Book, Ignorance, Eye

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• It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder.

  A.C. Grayling

  Atheist, Cities, Faces

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• The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.

  Berenice Abbott

  Cities, Challenges, Portraits

  Berenice Abbott, Julia Van Haaften (1989). “Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays”

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• It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

  Stone Gossard

  Thinking, Cities, Would Be

  Active Living Network Interview, www.activeliving.org.

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• In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises.

  Jim Morrison

  Hair, Cities, Skins

  Jim Morrison (1989). “Wilderness”, Vintage

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• I'm a creature of the New York City streets.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Cities, Creatures

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective. What I mean by objectivity is not the objectivity of a machine, but of a sensible human being with the mystery of personal selection at the heart of it. The second challenge has been to impose order onto the things seen and to supply the visual context and the intellectual framework - that to me is the art of photography.

  Berenice Abbott

  Photography, Art, Mean

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• We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Cities

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• I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the air on common rooftops--the rivers that burst through the city streets so they ran like canals--the rabbits in parking garages--the deer foaling, nestled in Dumpsters like a Nativity.

  Matthew Tobin Anderson

  Air, Cities, Rivers

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• She had taken to wondering lately, during these swift-counted years, what had been done with all those wasted summer days; how could she have spent them so wantonly? I am foolish, she told herself early every summer, I am very foolish; I am grown up now and know the values of things. Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.

  Shirley Jackson

  Summer, Morning, Taken

  Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.26, Penguin

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• I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.

  Nora Ephron

  New York, Heart, Light

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Dec 22, 2014

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• When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.

  Sid Luckman

  Baseball, Football, Cities

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• Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Law, Assault Weapons, Cities

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• As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later.

  Reynolds Price

  Mother, Children, Cities

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• This is something everyone knows: A well-used city street is apt to be a safe street. A deserted city street is apt to be unsafe.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Safe, Used

  Jane Jacobs (1989). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, Vintage

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• My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time.

  Conrad Aiken

  Horse, Heart, Night

  Conrad Aiken (1970). “Collected poems”, Oxford Univ Pr

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• Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan.

  Horace Mann

  Jesus, Book, Cities

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.192

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• Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

  Jane Jacobs

  Taken, Cities, People

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.30, Vintage

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• Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

  Barbara Coloroso

  Children, Cities, Needs

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• Walking uplifts the spirit. Breathe out the poisons of tension, stress, and worry; breathe in the power of God. Send forth little silent prayers of goodwill toward those you meet. Walk with a sense of being a part of a vast universe. Consider the thousands of miles of earth beneath your feet; think of the limitless expanse of space above your head. Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.

  Bill Vaughan

  Uplifting, Morning, Stars

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