Sidewalk Quotes

• The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Ballet, Improvisation

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.50, Vintage

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• It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

  Gene Simmons

  Cracks, Destination, Hard

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• There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.

  Shel Silverstein

  Moon, Wind, White

  Shel Silverstein, “Where The Sidewalk Ends”

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• There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.

  Matthew Fox

  Cracks, Patterns, Awareness

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• There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

  Shel Silverstein

  Ends

  Shel Silverstein, “Where The Sidewalk Ends”

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• Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Towns, Urban Design

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• People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with.

  Michael Zaslow

  Dog, Lying, Sick

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• Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Streets, Organs

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage

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• You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all.

  Stephen King

  Path, Steps, Fantastic

  Stephen King (2017). “It: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

  Joshua Homme

  Feet

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• Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

  Simon Sinek

  Swimming, Risk, Safe

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2011

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• I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.

  Grace Abbott

  Girl, Baby, Responsibility

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• In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

  Roman Polanski

  Paris, Car, Matter

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

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• Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Band, Aging

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stay Strong, Life Lesson, Color

  Shel Silverstein, “Colors”

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• I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said.

  Kate McKinnon

  Talking, Laughing, Subway

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

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• We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

  Matthew Fox

  Beauty, Blow, Cracks

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Life Lesson

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• Outside it's a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we're dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whoosing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the tress.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Laughter, Spring, Fall

  "The Time Traveler's Wife". Book by Audrey Niffenegger, 2003.

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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• Traveling across the United States, it's easy to see why Americans are often thought of as stupid. At the San Diego Zoo, right near the primate habitats, there's a display featuring half a dozen life-size gorillas made out of bronze. Posted nearby is a sign reading CAUTION: GORILLA STATUES MAY BE HOT. Everywhere you turn, the obvious is being stated. CANNON MAY BE LOUD. MOVING SIDEWALK IS ABOUT TO END. To people who don't run around suing one another, such signs suggest a crippling lack of intelligence.

  David Sedaris

  Running, Zoos, Stupid

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

  Aimee Bender

  Hands, World, Streets

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• What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot is nailed to the sidewalk. You circle around it until you wear yourself own.

  Nick Flynn

  Running, Circles, Feet

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.168, Faber & Faber

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• If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore.

  Rand Paul

  Believe, Men, Smoking

  "The 10 Best Lines From Rand Paul's Incredible Filibuster On Civil Liberties" by Grace Wyler, www.businessinsider.com. March 06, 2013.

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• I feel really passionately about safe, comfortable roads, crosswalks, and sidewalks. Everyone of all economic backgrounds should be able to get to school or the grocery store safely and efficiently so they can live better lives.

  Ben Sollee

  School, Safe, Able

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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