Streets Quotes - Page 30

• He found that he had this sudden desperate longing for the fuming, smoky streets of Ankh-Morpork, which was always at its best in the spring, when the gummy sheen on the turbid waters of the Ankh River had a special iridescence and the eaves were full of birdsong, or at least birds coughing rhythmically

  Terry Pratchett

  Spring, Rivers, Water

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.91, Random House

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• My birthplace was California, but I couldn't forget Armenia, so what is one's country? Is it land of the earth, in a specific place? Rivers there? Lakes? The sky there? The way the moon comes up there? And the sun? Is one's country the trees, the vineyards, the grass, the birds, the rocks, the hills and summer and winter? Is it the animal rhythm of the living there? The huts and houses, the streets of cities, the tables and chairs, and the drinking of tea and talking? Is it the peach ripening in summer heat on the bough? Is it the dead in the earth there?

  William Saroyan

  Summer, Country, Drinking

  "Antranik and the Spirit of Armenia" by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.

  Mark Haddon

  Distance, Father, Fall

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• As I said in my last book, birds are mean. They're the only pet that, when they escape, the owners are relieved. You can tell a species is evil by doing this simple math. If my blond lab Molly was the size of T-Rex, that would just mean more kibble, more work for the gardener in the backyard, and a harder time moving her to my wife's side of the bed at night. If birds were the size of a T-Rex, the streets would be littered with human remains.

  Adam Carolla

  Moving, Book, Mean

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• Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'What's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.

  Alexander Masters

  Fall, Fighting, Mushrooms

  Alexander Masters (2006). “Stuart: A Life Backwards”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Maturity, Stories

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

  Althea Gibson

  Leadership, Sports, Wimbledon

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• Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."

  Winston Churchill

  Crush, Firsts, Approval

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• If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

  Mario

  Bananas, Prison, Ifs

  "The Italian Exception" by Sean Wilsey, www.newyorker.com. June 24, 2014.

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• DEVO was like the punk band that non Punk America saw as Punk and so when people who were really into Punk rock would be walking around on the streets the jocks who learned about Punk through Devo would roll down their windows and yell at the Punks: 'HEY, DEVO!!'

  Thurston Moore

  America, Rocks, People

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• Churches that make an impact are more focused on putting boots on the streets than butts in the seats

  Miles McPherson

  Impact, Church, Boots

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• People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.

  Kristanna Loken

  Athlete, Thinking, People

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• One of the things I learned on the street was to trust life and to keep hands off of it, and that feeling continues in the rest of the works that I do, the portrait, the landscapes, or any interest that I have. Things are good enough as they are, there's no reason to tamper with them.

  Joel Meyerowitz

  Hands, Feelings, Portraits

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• The only thing which completely was an amazement to me and brought me to photography was the work of Munkacsi. When I saw the photograph of Munkacsi of the black kids running in a wave, I couldn't believe such a thing could be caught with the camera. I said, 'Damn it', I took my camera and went out into the street.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Running, Believe

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• Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

  Malcolm Turnbull

  Jobs, Struggle, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Rockefeller and his associates did not build the Standard Oil Co. in the board rooms of Wall Street banks. They fought their way to control by rebate and drawback, bribe and blackmail, espionage and price cutting, by ruthless efficiency of organization.

  Ida Tarbell

  Wall, Cutting, Organization

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• It's easy to set a story anywhere if you get a good guidebook and get some basic street names, and some descriptions, but, for me, yes, I am indebted to my travels to India for several of the stories.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Names, India, Stories

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• I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

  Will Durant

  Darkness, Sun, Reason

  "The Story of Civilization Part VI the Reformation". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1957.

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• The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk.

  Mark Helprin

  New York, Careers, People

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• I remembered standing in the middle of the street in front of The Crooked Bookshelf, filled with the certainty of a future. I had heard the wolves howling behind the house and remembered how glad I had been to be human.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  House, Middle, Certainty

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.567, Scholastic Inc.

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• We too need to protect, guide, and encourage our young people, helping them to build a society worthy of their great spiritual and cultural heritage.  Specifically, we need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected.  And we need to care for our young people, not allowing them to be robbed of hope and condemned to life on the streets.

  Pope Francis

  Spiritual, Children, People

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• Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen
  may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Zoos, Animal, Royal

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1982). “Dialogues”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Whenever I give a talk about my work I am invariably asked who my influences are.  Not what my influences are, but who.. As if the gutter, misunderstandings, memories, sex, dreams, and books matter less than forebears do.  After all, in terms of influences, it is as much the guy who mugged me on Tenth Street, or my beloved dog who passed away much too early, as it was Giotto or Diane Arbus.

  Robert Gober

  Dream, Dog, Sex

  Charles Ephraim Burchfield, Robert Gober, Cynthia Burlingham, Dave Hickey, Tullis Johnson (2009). “Heat waves in a swamp: the paintings of Charles Burchfield”, Prestel Pub

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• I'm not wedded to covering the markets. I'm intrigued by the markets. If I can connect Main Street with Wall Street, then I've succeeded.

  Neil Cavuto

  Wall, Covering, Literature

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