Streets Quotes - Page 40

• Rolling down the street, smoking indo, sippin' on gin and juice.

  Snoop Dogg

  Alcohol, Smoking, Drug

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• We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

  Merle Haggard

  Marijuana, Living Right, Alcohol

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• When I walk the streets, kings and queens step aside, every woman I meet, they all stay satisfied.

  George Thorogood

  Kings, Queens, Steps

  Song: Bad to the Bone

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• I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

  Alice Cooper

  Evil, Gold, Hell

  Song: Cleansed By Fire, Album: The Last Temptation

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• I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

  Bob Dylan

  Hands, Evil, Deceit

  Song: I Am a Lonesome Hobo, Album: John Wesley Harding

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• Imagine all the people, living life in peace. Well, that's hard to do when you're on this blood stained street.

  Christine Lavin

  Live Life, Blood, People

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• Stepped out into the cold, collar high, under the slate gray sky. The air was smoking and the streets were dry, and I wasn't joking when I said goodbye.

  Ani DiFranco

  Goodbye, Air, Sky

  Song: Fire Door

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• There is no whit less enlightenment under the tree by your street than there was under the Buddha's bo tree. I invite you to go sit under that tree by your street.

  Annie Dillard

  Nature, Tree, Enlightenment

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• Nature-the sublime, the harsh, and the beautiful-offers something that the street or gated community or computer game cannot. Nature presents the young with something so much greater than they are; it offers an environment where they can easily contemplate infinity and eternity.

  Richard Louv

  Beautiful, Nature, Games

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.82, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I try to walk on the sunny side of the street.

  Tim McGraw

  Inspirational, Trying, Sides

  Song: Carry On, 1999

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• It doesn't matter who you are, there are stars in every city, in every house, and on every street.

  Ray Davies

  Inspirational, Stars, Cities

  "Celluloid Heroes" (song) (1972)

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• Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Suicide, Men

  Song: Lost In The Flood, Album: Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., 1973

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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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• Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.

  Pete Townshend

  Running, Boys, Littles

  Song: Rough Boys, Album: Empty Glass, 2006

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• I've been looking for a savior in these dirty streets, looking for a savior beneath these dirty sheets.

  Tori Amos

  Dirty, Low Self Esteem, Sheets

  Song: Crucify, Album: Little Earthquakes, 1992

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• If you walk along the street you will encounter a number of scientific problems. Of these, about 80 per cent are insoluble, while 19½ per cent are trivial. There is then perhaps half a per cent where skill, persistence, courage, creativity and originality can make a difference. It is always the task of the academic to swim in that half a per cent, asking the questions through which some progress can be made.

  Hermann Bondi

  Creativity, Science, Persistence

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• Experience hobbles progress and leads to abandonment of difficult problems; it encourages the initiated to walk on the shady side of the street in the direction of experiences that have been pleasant. Youth without experience attacks the unsolved problems which maturer age with experience avoids, and from the labors of youth comes progress. Youth has dreams and visions, and will not be denied.

  William James Mayo

  Dream, Science, Vision

  William James Mayo (1921). “In the time of Henry Jacob Bigelow”

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• Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Queens, Media

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• Haven't got a girl, but I can wish. So I'll take me down to Main Street and that's where I'll select my imaginary dish.

  Dean Martin

  Girl, Wish, Select

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• I don't whistle at you down the street. I would if I could, but I can't whistle you see.

  Elton John

  If I Could, Ifs, I Can

  Song: Amy Elton John Bernie Taupin, Album: Honky Chateau, 1972

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• I seen her with the milkman, riding down the street. When you're through with my baby, milkman, send her home to me.

  Randy Newman

  Baby, Home, Infidelity

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• Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they're back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.

  Waylon Jennings

  Men, Order, Years

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• Why is it possible to rescue S&L buccaneers in the early '90s and provide guidance to levered Wall Street investment bankers during the 1998 long-term capital management crisis, yet throw 2 million homeowners to the wolves in 2007?

  Bill Gross

  Wall, Long, Bankers

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• You make a right on L, make a left on O, come to a green light and that's when you can go. You keep straight on V, until you come to E, that's when you see a big sign that say's welcome to Love Street.

  R. Kelly

  Light, Poetry, Green

  Song: Love Street, Album: Happy People / U Saved Me

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• A nation with their freezers full are dancing in their seats, while outside another nation is sleeping in the streets.

  Billy Bragg

  Sleep, Dancing, Politics

  Song: Help Save the Youth of America

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