Streets Quotes - Page 23

• My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

  Haruki Murakami

  Mean, Self, Hands

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• This wasn’t just an attack against the Boston Marathon... It was an attack against the American public and our democratic use of the streets. We have used our public roadways for annual parades, protest marches, presidential inaugurations, marathons, and all manner of other events. The roads belong to us, and their use represents an important part of our free and democratic tradition.

  Amby Burfoot

  Boston, Presidential, Important

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• The fight to save family farms isn't just about farmers. It's
  about making sure that there is a safe and healthy food supply for all of us.
  It's about jobs, from Main Street to Wall Street. It's about a better
  America.

  Willie Nelson

  Jobs, Wall, Fighting

  FaceBook post by Willie Nelson from Jan 07, 2014

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• In masks and gown we haunt the street
  And knock on doors for trick or treat
  Tonight we are the king and queen,
  For oh tonight it's Halloween!

  Jack Prelutsky

  Kings, Queens, Halloween

  Jack Prelutsky (1977). “It's Halloween”, Scholastic Paperbacks

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• And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up - because every girl’s life matters. Every daughter deserves the same chance as our sons. Every woman should be able to go about her day - to walk the streets or ride the bus - and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that.

  Barack Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Brother

  Barack Obama's Address to the People of India at Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi, India, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. January 27, 2015.

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• The longing for initiation is universal and for modern youth, it is a desperate need. When nothing is offered in the way of spiritual initiation to prove one's entry into the world of men and women, initiation happens instead in the road or the street, in cars at high speed, with drugs, with dangerous sex, with weapons. However troubling, this behavior is rooted in a fundamental truth; a need to grow.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Sex, Men

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• We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.

  Dick Durbin

  Police, Needs, Safe

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• Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Lying, Science, Average

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.301, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

  Artur Davis

  Jobs, Children, Wall

  Speech At 2012 Republican Convention, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 28, 2012.

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• We must make no secret of the fact that we are a revolutionary party , prepared to give leadership on the streets as well as in the elected chambers & that we are out for a revolutionary state

  Seamus Costello

  Party, Giving, Secret

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• By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Ice Cream, Expression, Nurse

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• Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Sky, Ideas

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• I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.

  Howard Finster

  Men, Light, Vision

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• Wear what you feel comfortable with. People say nasty things about what I wear in the street. I'm always in worst dressed lists, but you just have to dress for yourself and ­nobody else.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Dresses, Lists

  "Helena Bonham Carter unworried by Oscars after Bafta success" by Dean Piper, www.mirror.co.uk. February 20, 2011.

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• We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.

  Ruby Dee

  Spiritual, Party, Struggle

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• It's quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on.

  Charlie Sheen

  Stars, Sleep, Rose

  "Charlie Sheen Honors Slash, Slams Axl Rose at Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony" by Arati Patel, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 11, 2012.

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• You may have noticed that society is rapidly going downhill. Inflation, lack of fuel and even war cast deep shadows over the world. And the most serious part of this is that drugs, both medical and street drugs, have disabled a majority of those who could have handled it, including the political leaders, and have even paralyzed the coming generations.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  War, Leader, Political

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• Usability is not everything. If usability engineers designed a nightclub, it would be clean, quiet, brightly lit, with lots of places to sit down, plenty of bartenders, menus written in 18-point sans-serif, and easy-to-find bathrooms. But nobody would be there. They would all be down the street at Coyote Ugly pouring beer on each other.

  Joel Spolsky

  Beer, Ugly, Coyotes

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• I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

  Oscar Wilde

  Horse, Sex, Practice

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• Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

  Russell Brand

  Numbers, Letters, Today

  Russell Brand @rustyrockets, twitter.com. September 23, 2010.

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• Your fingertips across my skin, The palm trees swaying in the wind, Images. You sang me Spanish lullabies, The sweetest sadness in your eyes, Clever trick... I cannot go to the ocean, I cannot drive the streets at night, I cannot wake up in the morning without you on my mind, So now you're gone and I'm haunted, And I bet you are just fine. Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?..

  A Fine Frenzy

  Morning, Clever, Ocean

  "Almost Lover". Song by Alison Sudol (A Fine Frenzy), May 22, 2007.

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• Ella's supersonic voice followed her all the way to Bleecker Street and then dissolved amid the noisy profusion of shops, cafes, and restaurants and the crush of people that made the West Village of Manhattan unique in the world. In a single block you could buy fertility statues from Tanzania, rare Amazonian orchids, a pawned brass tuba, Krispy Kreme doughnuts, or the best, most expensive cup of coffee you ever tasted. It was the doughnuts, incidentally, that attracted Gaia.

  Francine Pascal

  Crush, Block, Coffee

  Francine Pascal (2001). “Sam”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.

  Thuy Trang

  School, Engineering, Interesting

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• Trees are contagious; as soon as one neighborhood or street is planted, citizen pressure builds up for action from the next street.

  William H. Whyte

  Tree, Citizens, Next

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