Streets Quotes

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.

The first step is to take weapons off the streets and to put more police on them.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Before rap came along, I was, actually, actively in the streets; getting in trouble, doing the wrong thing.

Everybody was wary. This was a time when communists marched through the streets, waving flags and shouting. The unions did the same thing so you began to associate them.

If you're a gunfighter, you like to die in the street.

When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

I remember a day and time when the streets indicated what was hot online, and now I think it's starting to reverse a little bit.

Look what happened with the employment law in France-the law was withdrawn because the people marched in the streets. I think what we need is a global protest movement of people who won't give up.

I know the streets, I know the system, I know poverty, and I know how it feels to be 15 and not have a safe place to go.

I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.

Love! The poor word. How it has suffered up and down the streets of the world.

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

I am a dark-skinned, nappy-headed, scar-faced dude from the streets of Brooklyn. I can't hide from being who I am. It's all over my face.

The street is the best way to become a good footballer.

I couldn't reconcile what I was being taught at the university of Chicago, the lectures and the books I was being assigned, with what I knew to be true out in the streets.

No man is uninteresting when his hat is blown off and he has to scuttle after it down the street.

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

i am like a survivor of the flood walking through the streets drenched with God surprised that all of the drowned victims are still walking and talking

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.

My mother had a rule, obviously, that I couldn't go across the street by myself, but I had to find a way of doing it.

It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world.

Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!

One way to solve the traffic problem is to keep all the cars that are not paid for off the streets.

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.

You eat and sleep it all day long and play on the streets until mom calls you in. My story is no different than anybody else's.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

As an actor, you really want to resonate with your audience. I played a character on Oz and people still approach me in the streets today.

Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.

Where the underworld can meet the elite, Forty-Second Street.

I learned to play (baseball) on the streets in the Dominican Republic when I was 8 yrs old.

Walking the streets of New York, a lot of people are cheering me on. It feels good.

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise.

Women on the streets want money when we meet. I take them for a little ride, chop, chop, chop.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

Last night I fled until I came To streets where leaking casements dripped Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame; A nervous window bled.

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street.

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

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.

No torture has yet been devised that could get a liberal to mention the poor, beleaguered Kurds dancing in the streets because Saddam is gone.

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

I'm from the streets of New York. I know what tough talk sounds like.

Remember the people in the back streets of Derby.

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

We have seen in the past where leaders have not been open-minded or have not been flexible. That's why the people came out to the streets and shouted and chanted for more reforms and more freedoms.