Streets Quotes

One can beg, buy, be presented with and find love in the streets, but it can never be stolen.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

Rap music came along and saved my life. I started to tell the stories of the streets and that was my way out.

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

I'm not in Wall Street for my health.

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.

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

You walk out in the street, we don't know if we're going to get across. It's a test.

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.

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error.

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.

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

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.

Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

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."

No one will ever follow you down the street if you're carrying a banner that says, "Onward toward mediocrity."

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.

The best thing about the E Street Band was we had the best lead singer around.

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world.

I felt Holyfield was using his head illegally. I told the referee I wasn't getting any help, so I went back to the streets. I cannot defend it, but it happened.

The star of revolution will rise high above the streets of Moscow, from a sea of blood and fire, and turn into a lodestar to lead a liberated humanity

To visit certain streets was to realise that only the sky remained unchanged there.

Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.

Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.

A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.

When I began making my own albums, the songs became funkier. They were more about the streets.

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.

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.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I have always said that we did not expect a revolution in the streets.

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England.

Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise.

You are now about to witness the strength of street knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

If I'm going to make music for the streets or the clubs or whatever, I go at it with 110 percent.

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

How weird it was to drive streets I knew so well. What a different perspective.

France? I don't want to be anti-French but there isn't a more unattractive group of people on the streets.

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.

Have you ever walked down the streets of New York and been given the right of way? It's an amazing feeling.

Hip-hop went through different stages, from the beginning in the streets of the Bronx, to the whole Tri-State area and then to the rest of the United States and the rest of the world.

I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.

I can't wait to be racing through the streets of Chicago. As a notoriously fast course, I am out there to run a PR and compete with some of the world's best until the very end.

I'm not worried about walking the streets and looking over my shoulder because of something I might have said.