Streets Quotes

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

The election is not very far off when a candidate can recognize you across the street.

If Instagram had been available when I was working in Nicaragua in 1978, I'm sure I would have wanted to use it as a way of reporting directly from the streets during the insurrection.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something.

The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?

The Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that's thus far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere with other men's rights.

It seems to me the mark of a civilized society that certain privileges should be taken for granted such as education, health care and the safety to walk the streets.

I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.

Across th street is a hell of a tester.

Life is a dead-end street.

Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.

I think all songs should have weather in them. Names of towns and streets, and they should have a couple of sailors. I think those are just song prerequisites.

Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story.

In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream.

I think the internal combustion engine will disappear from the streets of our cities in the next thirty years because transportation will be mass transportation, or probably electrical power.

[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

The safe time to invest is when there is blood in the streets.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

I have seen with my own eyes how the pope was carried on the shoulders of the princes, with all the pomp, being adored in the streets by the surrounding people.

Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.

We improved the environment in which our children live, learn and play by decreasing crime and clamping down on abuse and violence in the home and on the streets.

In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

When I'm not in training. I'll walk around the streets at 153, but it's not solid; it's my socializing weight.

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.

I've received a lot of compliments. People come right up to me on the street. They recognize me

On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border.

Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.

Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were.

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

Fighting George Foreman is like being in the street with an 18-wheeler coming at you.

Messi is the best that's played the game. Streets ahead of Maradona.

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters.

I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.

Let's begin to cover the main street of America... just to see what the heck occurs on it.

Rap is from the streets and I'm from the streets. That's why a lot of people accept me.

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.

When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a child, between walls and trees that are hers.

A good guide will take you through the more important streets more often than he takes you down side streets; a bad guide will do the opposite. In philosophy I'm a rather bad guide.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

Life begins to happen. My hoppped up husband drops his home disputes, and hits the streets to cruise for prostitutes

Fame is like getting across the street. It's like, if there's nothing to be across the street for, it's a pointless destination.

Decriminalization would take the profit out of drugs and greatly reduce, if not eliminate, the drug-related violence that is currently plaguing our streets.

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.