Streets Quotes

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.

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.

In Wall Street, the only thing that's hard to explain is next week.

I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves, I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets. That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.

That's why I was out in the streets. To make sure no one else was there.

The first CD said exactly what it was. I was just in the streets hustling. I come from a family of hustlers.

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.

When two doctors pass each other on the street they wink at each other.

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.

We must make no secret of the fact that we are a revolutionary party , prepared to give leadership on the streets as well as in the elected chambers & that we are out for a revolutionary state

I sang do-wop on the street corner before it was called do-wop.

Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the streets.

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

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

I love street, adore street. Life is about mixing things and to be divine in the streets. Voila!

Everybody that I meet inspires me. You can learn so much from any person that you meet any day on the side of the street.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

I keep my ear to the streets - that's how I know music. I live, breathe, eat, and sleep music. That's it. Nothing else.

I know that I'm kind of a big deal online, but I think that some of that is starting to seep into the streets, and you want to kind of continue to make sure it does that.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up.

We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better.

As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman.

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

A street that you have never visited is a book that you have never read! You never know what you are missing!

A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.

The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.

Nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street.

Footballers from the street are more important than trained coaches.

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

That's why I got a new dumb thing moving through the streets Got a new condo moving to the beach Heard Nicki just bought a brand new crib Got damn man she's beauty and the beast

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.

Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.

There is equality in the office but not on the street.

I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.

I walk these streets, a loaded six string on my back I play for keeps, 'cause I might not make it back; I been everywhere, and I'm standing tall I've seen a million faces an I've rocked them all.

There've been times when I've bought a whole pound of cheese and walked down the street and eaten it in one go.

Capitalists, if you think that you can play footsies with these people, you're wrong. They will come for you and drag you into the streets and kill you.

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets.

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

The suburb is a place where someone cuts down all the trees to build houses, and then names the streets after the trees.

The street is no place to race.

By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.