Streets Quotes

• Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Taught

  Song: Like A Rolling Stone

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• Life is a long headache in a noisy street.

  John Masefield

  Life, Long, Headache

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Sunset, Littles, Towns

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.25

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• Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.

  Frances Conroy

  Nice, Makeup, People

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• Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

  Samuel Johnson

  Respect, Men, Giving

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.119

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• I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sleep, Night, People

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• Grab your coat, and get your hat Leave your worry on the doorstep Just direct your feet To the sunny side of the street.

  Dorothy Fields

  Optimistic, Feet, Worry

  "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (song) (1930)

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• On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

  Ze Frank

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• No matter how good you are, at top pf your game, always remember that you're a half a step away from the street.

  Hubie Brown

  Basketball, Games, Half

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• Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

  Nick Carter

  Inspire, Sides, Persons

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

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• In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Education, Mistake, School

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• If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Believe, College

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• I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Band, Stories, Done

  "Rock Hall Quotes: 20 Awesome Quips From Nirvana, Springsteen, Kiss and More" by Jessica Letkemann, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 11, 2014.

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• Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

  Irvine Welsh

  Focus, Today, Seems

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• A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Book, Missing, Knows

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• The streets were dark with something more then night.

  Raymond Chandler

  Dark, Night

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• I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Thinking, World, Ifs

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• But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

  Barry Gibb

  Sky, People

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• A fashion that does not reach the streets is not a fashion

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Life, Fashion

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• I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

  Sean Paul

  Ideas, Together, Midnight

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

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• Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

  Michael Cunningham

  Rain, Night, Wind

  Michael Cunningham (1998). “The Hours: A Novel”, p.135, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Death, Failure

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Nov 29, 2014

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• Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Witty, Way

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• I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.

  Virginia Woolf

  Funny, Friendship, Death

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• Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Touch Someone, Walks

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