“... a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He presented himself as the friend to Main Street America, and yet that aw-shucks persona ended up packaging policies and programs that… — Eugene Jarecki Copy Share Image
“the serenity of the world tugging tight the straps of its cloak around the smattering of low brick buildings; the sunlight receding… — Ronald Malfi Copy Share Image
“Main Street is as dead as ever. There's a blinding white light at the water-tower end of it and Jesus standing in… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
I remember being in church. We would do the live nativity in my little town and I remember pulling the sheep. I… — Chris Tomlin Copy Share Image
“It is, to tell the truth, just such a Main Street as Sinclair Lewis describes with such delightful malevolence, but like that… — Earnest Elmo Calkins Copy Share Image
From our small towns to our big cities, every Pennsylvania community has a main street - they are critical to our economic… — Josh Shapiro Copy Share Image
The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“It was the middle of the afternoon, on a sunny day in early August of 1952, when we pulled into the bus… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“That lying..." Jesse turned the key in the ignition before exploding. "Destroying papers that don't belong to him and acting as though… — R.C. Ryan Copy Share Image
“These were my countrymen, these were the new Californians. With their bright polo shirts and sunglasses, they were in paradise, they belonged.… — John Fante Copy Share Image
“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
“Pizza Palace?” David asks. It’s just a few doors down. I picture my friends all huddled in a booth in the back.… — Julie Buxbaum Copy Share Image
“Main Street is dead, which is no news to the families whose families ran family businesses on Main Street. When I returned...I… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“By April 1999, the plain was nearly filled, all the way to the foothills. But the fiercely independent residents refused to incorporate.… — Dave Cullen Copy Share Image
“In the course of a short city-block this frantic old woman frenetically caricatured the features of forty or fifty passers-by, in a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
What makes you think you can't call someone like (outgoing Indiana coach) Mike Davis ? Give me his number and I'll talk… — Ray Hall Copy Share Image
Look at what's happening between Main Street and Wall Street. The stock market index is up 136 percent from the bottom. Middle… — David Stockman Copy Share Image
“There is real hope for a culture that makes it as easy to buy a book as it does a pack of… — Paula Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
If I had my way, I would build a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace, with a military band playing… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other. We… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
No man should think that peace comes easily. Peace does not come by merely wanting it, or shouting for it, or marching… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Do not blame people and their attitudes: the problem is not corruption or greed, the problem is the system that pushes you… — Slavoj Zizek Copy Share Image
“To ensure that no men would be kept from the fray because they lacked equipment, the Buffalo merchant Robert Foote threw open… — John W. Davis Copy Share Image
“Richardson ran on a parallel course beside Adams Street, but despite their proximity, the two streets were worlds apart. Richardson, on its… — Adrienne Berard Copy Share Image
“When I got to the main street I saw that the town was in turmoil. To my surprise I found people breaking… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“There is a bus station in Henry, but it isn't on Main Street. It's one block north - the town fathers hadn't… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
“I get in the car and go to complex A, and look for room 23, and then I knock on the door.… — Tammy Falkner Copy Share Image
“He was almost a poet in his old age and his notion of what happened took a poetic turn. 'I had come… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
