Streets Quotes
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.
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.
In the long dusks of summer we walked the suburban streets through scents of maple and cut grass, waiting for something to happen.
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.
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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.
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.
As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.
No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."
People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, "Where have you been?" The second comment they make is always, "Oh, you've grown up."
There are a lot of messages that need to be sent to the criminal who is out there dealing in this on the streets of the United States. We need to send the message of swiftness and certain punishment.
Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
Mean Streets dealt with the American Dream, according to which everybody thinks they can get rich quick, and if they can't do it by legal means then they'll do it by illegal ones.
We have got to go out there and deliver, go on the streets and find athletes, improve facilities around the country and find coaches. We have got to go out there and search for a star.
Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
There are children who are working in textile businesses in Asia who would be prostitutes on the streets if they did not have those jobs
I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.
What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.
When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.
Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.
It's a culture. It's - I mean, people obsess over this. And people create subcultures that identify - and there are people in the streets who will recognize certain patterns and signifiers.
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
I have had a few people recognise me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognise me. I can still walk across the street and not be noticed.
We have to convince the people of Bucharest, who are dog lovers, to treat dogs like they treat their children and not just let them roam the streets.
A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.
Every spring he vowed to quit teaching school, and every summer he missed his pupils and searched for them on the streets.
I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting.
You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.
People with mental illnesses are dying on our streets. More than 350,000 are in jails and prisons. Most are people whose only real crime is they got sick.
When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.
Life in a shelter or on the streets puts homeless kids and youth at a higher risk for physical and sexual assault and abuse, physical illness, including HIV/AIDS
On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.
You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.
My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.
When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite.
Though times have changed, it's a nice surprise to see that youthful feeling of anti-war sentiment returning once more to the cobbled main streets of Europe.
You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.
The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.
And, because there was an honesty about all that was going on. It connected with the people in the street.
If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.
When a man is starving in the streets he is not thinking of bread and water, but of caviar and champagne!
