Street Lights Quotes

• 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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• There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.

  Bram Stoker

  Light, Darkness, Beautiful Books

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• There is no need for the street lights in the Street of Love; all is already bright in there!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Light, Needs

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• I can either cross the street, or I can keep waiting for another few years of green lights to go by.

  Camryn Manheim

  Light, Years, Waiting

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• If you can't see the sun you will be impressed with a street light. If you've never felt thunder and lightning you'll be impressed with fireworks. And if you turn your back on the greatness and majesty of God you'll fall in love with a world of shadows and short-lived pleasures.

  John Piper

  Falling In Love, Greatness, Light

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• This new world was a vicious, sleek world made of street lights and tight jeans, sharp smiles and fast cars. This was a city, edited. A city, pared down to its bare minimums, beautiful and abusive.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Beautiful, Light, Jeans

  Tessa Gratton, Maggie Stiefvater, Brenna Yovanoff (2013). “The Curiosities: A Collection of Stories”, p.227, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• There was a sky somewhere above the tops of the buildings, with stars and a moon and all the things there are in a sky, but they were content to think of the distant street lights as planets and stars. If the lights prevented you from seeing the heavens, then preform a little magic and change reality to fit the need. The street lights were now planets and stars and moon.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Stars, Moon, Reality

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• Suddenly it wasn't only a personal thing to me. I could picture hundreds and hundreds of boys living on the wrong sides of cities, boys with black eyes who jumped at their own shadows. Hundreds of boys who maybe watched sunsets and looked at stars and ached for something better. I could see boys going down under street lights because they were mean and tough and hated the world, and it was too late to tell them that there was still good in it, and they wouldn't believe you if you did.

  S. E. Hinton

  Stars, Believe, Sunset

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “The Outsiders”, p.119, Penguin

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• I see a woman in the night with a baby in her hand, under an old street light near a garbage can.

  Neil Young

  Song, Baby, Night

  Song: Rockin' In The Free World

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• Here comes old Rosie she's looking mighty fine, here comes hot Nancy she's steppin' right on time. There go the street lights bringing on the night, here come the men faces hidden from the light.

  Bob Seger

  Night, Men, Light

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