Streets Quotes

African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble.

The urge to transform one's appearance, to dance outdoors, to mock the powerful and embrace perfect strangers is not easy to suppress." --Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets, 260.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own; we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

The streets was basically my parents.

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

Take away Toto Wolff's Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street - nobody would recognize him.

When we go... to bear witness to life on the streets, we're offering ourselves. Not blankets, not food, not clothes, just ourselves.

I was a street performer for two years.

I didn't get into this position by being like a stiff sitting on the set in a folding chair. I did it by walking around on the streets and stirring things up.

It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.

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

I'm not a dishwasher anymore. But I'm still from Sangamon Street.

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets.

There were people in the South who were ardently opposed to slavery. And maybe, if we get into truth and reconciliation, those will be the people we want to name schools and streets after.

What I made depended on what I found on the street. At least in the beginning, my materials came from the street.

I was one of the first post-studio artists. I used to do my works in the streets. I used to find them in the streets, and I used to leave them in the streets.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

I feel like my behavior goes over better on the streets of New York.

I was just a folk singer. I cut my teeth on the streets, you know.

Your city is under attack," he said. 'The wards are down, adn the streets area full of demons. And you want to know why I haven't called you?" Magnus to Alec

But I still feel like a normal person... I've walked the streets and I know what it feels like. I speak with humility, and apparently those songs connect with people.

The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"

I went down to Miami, and somebody saw me on the streets, and that's how I got into modeling.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

The Japanese drive on the left side of the road. Most streets literally do not have names.

I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was very young, and shift for hisself. It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir.

If people want safer streets, they want police supported, then they should vote for Donald Trump because that's what he'll do.

Success can be obviously a two way street.

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

I don't like to be recognized on the street or in restaurants, and I don't like the whole celebrity thing.

New situations inspire new thoughts. Here is the benefit of travelling, much more than in mere sight-seeing. We lose ourselves in the streets of our own city, and go abroad to find ourselves.

I haven't hit the bestseller list, but I consider myself one of the luckiest writers in the world, and this is mainly because of Grub Street.

I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

It appears to me that no one has learned a thing; that Wall Street is still operating as if 2008 never happened.

I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.

That old ball and chain had me chained up for weeks, So of course I'm off the chain as soon as I hit the streets.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

I'm going to give the people what they want. Sensation, horror, shock. Send them out in the streets to tell their friends how wonderful it is to be scared to death.

It's that anonymous person who meanders through the streets and feels what's happening there, feels the pulse of the people, who's able to create.

If you're wandering the streets, talking in gibberish, nobody ever asks you to change anything about your art because there's no context for people to look at what you do.

Look at labor policy. What's the point of making everybody work too much? It's not very useful. It is destroying the planet, actually. But it's great at keeping people off the streets.

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.