Streets Quotes

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Main Street is almost alright.

Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.

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

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

The street finds its own uses for things.

I'm that neighborhood blizzard flooding these streets with snow.

Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.

The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

Savannah is a . . . lovely pastel dream of tight cobbled streets. . . . There are legendary scenes . . . to rival any dreamed up by Tennessee Williams.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

After the film it was raining, a light steady rain. Ruthless neon on the wet streets like busted candy.

Ten years ago, we were seen as a virtually failed state, but today we are a vibrant democracy. You can walk safely through the streets of Bogota these days.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

There are people much less fortunate than us, and I don't mean people hungry sleeping in the streets either

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.

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

The streets were dark with something more then night.

I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game.

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end.

You must stand for free speech in the streets.

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

I always had an intelligence with me, I was always in the streets, I was always trying to do good. I was always looking for something to guide me. In the beginning church wasn't it.

British men are peacocks. You see a lot more style on the streets here than you see anywhere else, on every level.

I love getting out on the streets and helping people.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.

The streets are safe in Philadelphia. It's only the people who make them unsafe.

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display.

You see in the streets of London, great and little boys running about in long blue coats, which, like robes, reach quite down to the feet, and little white bands, such as the clergy wear.

Not by appointment do we meet Delight And Joy; they heed not our expectancy; But round some corner in the streets of life, They, on a sudden, clasp us with a smile.

The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

Just one more word. If I ever run into any of you bums on the street corner, just let's pretend we never met before.

Everything in the street today seems soft focus.

To fill a world with ... religions of the Abrahamic kind, is like littering the streets with loaded guns. Do not be surprised if they are used.

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.

All the posters on the walls All the leaflets in the streets Are mutilated, destroyed or run in rain, Their words blotted out with tears, Skins peeling from their bodies In the victorious hurricane.

Whenever we touch someone's life, we leave a trace over there. Always leave good traces so that you can walk in the streets freely!

Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.

Compassion is never compassion until you cross the street and go do something about it.

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

I'm really afraid of getting hit by cars, like terrified of it. I'm terrified of crossing streets. I'm also very accident-prone...I think people aim for me.