Streets Quotes - Page 17

• How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.

  Burl Ives

  Liberty, Bells, Franklin

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• Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

  Kurt Schmoke

  Drug, Libertarian, Violence

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• No matter which sex I went to bed with, I never smoked on the street

  Florence King

  Sex, Bed, Matter

  Florence King (1990). “Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady”, p.2, Macmillan

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• There is a fine sense of freedom that comes from wandering about a familiar city with no particular destination in mind, with no one to meet, no duties, no obligations. I had nothing to do and a thousand nameless, sun-drenched streets to do it in.

  Steven Saylor

  Cities, Mind, Sun

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• Shame, isn’t it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are ‘spit and polished,’ and not when they’re showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Life, Hero, Uniforms

  Jacqueline Winspear (2003). “Maisie Dobbs”, p.171, Soho Press

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• Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

  Joseph O'Neill

  Night, Sky, Manhattan

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• Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, Pregnancy, Self

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• A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
  As night descends upon the fabled street:
  A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
  And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
  Here though the world explode, these two survive,
  And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

  Vincent Starrett

  Lonely, Rain, Past

  Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box

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• The real truth of life is on the streets. Photograph the daily lives of people, and how they exist, and how they fight for space and time and pleasure.

  Don McCullin

  Real, Fighting, Space

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• If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Fall, Raphael

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1968). “I Have a Dream: The Quotations of Martin Luther King, Jr”

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• When I walk out on the street, I want to see everybody wearing my clothes.

  Nicole Miller

  Clothes, Want, Walks

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• I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too tall, because l was five feet eight and a half, and they were all little bitty things running around in the studio at that time.

  Esther Williams

  Running, Stars, New York

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• Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

  William Kennedy

  Sin, Discouraging, Wells

  William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I paraphrase Lord Rothschild: ‘The time to buy is when there's blood on the streets.'

  David Dreman

  Blood, Rothschild, Lord

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• The Catholic church, once all her assets have been put together, is the most formidable stockbroker in the world. The Vatican, independently of each successive pope, has been increasingly orientated towards the U.S. The Wall Street Journal said that the Vatican's financial deals in the U.S. alone were so big that very often it sold or bought gold in lots of a million or more dollars at one time.

  Avro Manhattan

  Wall, Catholic, Church

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• If you want to be safe, walk in the middle of the street.

  Emilie Autumn

  Safe, Want, Middle

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• I try to address my audiences intelligently. The man in the street counts, but sometimes he forgets that he counts.

  Roland Joffe

  Men, Trying, Addresses

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• I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head

  Duncan Sheik

  Home, Fax Machines, Progression

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• As the lower parts of the Japanese houses and shops are open both before and behind, I had peeps of these pretty little gardens as I passed along the streets; and wherever I observed one better than the rest I did not fail to pay it a visit.

  Robert Fortune

  Garden, House, Littles

  Robert Fortune (1863). “Yedo and Peking: A Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China”, p.11

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• The same sun that rises over castles and welcomes the day
  Spills over buildings into the streets where orphans play
  And only You can see the good in broken things
  You took my heart of stone, and You made it home
  And set this prisoner free

  Bethany Dillon

  Home, Heart, Play

  Song: Hallelujah, Album: Imagination, 2005

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• Occupy Wall Street means making Wall Street and the corporate power elite understand that the people affected by the binge of unregulated greed are not going away, and they are not going to give up.

  Dana Spiotta

  Giving Up, Wall, Mean

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• All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.

  Dana Spiotta

  Wall, Feels, Effects

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• Don't feel you have to stick to plans, because something better might come up; and try to blend in, because you see more. I've learnt that the principles of moving around a big city are the same everywhere; only the people and streets are different.

  Michael Urie

  Moving, Cities, People

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• Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.

  Rosemary Daniell

  Dream, Lovely, Tennessee

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• If they are ignored, [Alice] Callaghan worries, the dangers of handing the streets over to private security forces will only grow. 'Until they begin interfering with the rights of middle-class people,' she says, 'you won't have anybody crying about it. But by then, it will be too late.'

  Ben Ehrenreich

  Rights, Class, People

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