Out in this profane city, sometimes sidewalks seem the…

“In every day life, I try to communicate to sacred strangers in the bus, street, trains, neighbourhood, offices, shops, library, schools, university, colleagues…!”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks.”

— Emil Cioran

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

— Margaret Mead

“Sidewalks help the blind see.”

— Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in…

— George Will

I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or…

— Tom Robbins

The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small…

— Jerry A. Webman

“The sidewalks flash silver with mica. Skyline smeared with geese. By way of recognition I lost the sound of your voice.”

— Ryan Murphy

I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because…

— Sandra Cisneros

“And on the sidewalks, after they've emerged from the stations, after being sandpapered by the jostling and scraping that a city like this does,…

— Dionne Brand

“When fall comes to town, lovers, letters, and leaves reunite on the sidewalks, broken, burnt, and brown.”

— Akash Mandal

“As children get older, this incidental outdoor activity--say, while waiting to be called to eat--becomes less bumptious, physically and entails more loitering with others,…

— Jane Jacobs

Its 2013. We should have heated sidewalks.

— Anonymous

Growing up in New York City, I'd flirted with the idea of driving, but between the subway and the sidewalks, I'd never needed to…

— Lynn Nottage

Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.

— Larry Wilcox