Streets Quotes · Page 13

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

— Anonymous

Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy.

— Scott Joplin

I like Harvey Keitel. I liked him in 'Mean Streets.' I'm a fan.

— Richard Ben-Veniste

I believe Wall Street needs serious ongoing regulation.

— Andrew Cuomo

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm a just a mom when I walk down the street.

— Alice Barrett

Life is a one-way street and you're not coming back.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

— William Arthur Ward

When I was 5 years old, my best friends were Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen because we lived across the street from each other.

— Troian Bellisario

I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling.

— Tupac Shakur

If a person sweeps streets for a living, he should sweep them as Michelangelo painted, as Beethoven composed, as Shakespear wrote.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The…

— Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Wall Street gives money to both [Democrats and Republicans] because they want to be on the good side of whoever becomes president .

— Jamie Dimon

I will sing in San Francisco if I have to sing in the streets, for I know that the streets of San…

— Luisa Tetrazzini

People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a…

— Kristanna Loken

I'm a very sensitive person. I do like to be respected. I'm very loyal. I like it to be a two-way street.

— Jim Brown

Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price,…

— Dennis Lehane

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem…

— Olivier Martinez

Yesterday the CEO of Citigroup said that he can understand why all these Occupy Wall Street protesters are so frustrated. In fact,…

— Jimmy Fallon

I almost tell him that I'd never be able to do something like that, just take out my instrument and begin playing…

— Andrew Clements

Gender segregated shelters are inaccessible to many trans people, and trans women in particular are often forced to choose between going into…

— Dean Spade

Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from…

— Eliot Spitzer

People were consuming on average less calories after the war than during the war. Things were still very tough. If you look…

— Sara Sheridan

As a kid, I was getting information in areas that no one else was getting. I think that was one of the…

— Paul Laffoley

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course…

— Christopher Bollen

The majority of Latinos in this country are 28 years old or younger. All of those people out there attacking the Latino…

— Dolores Huerta

He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and…

— David Nicholls

As for music and my place in it, maybe things are changing a little bit. I know this: a good song is…

— Vanilla Ice

The unwritten rules of behaviour are infinite in number, finely shaded, and subtle to the last fraction of a degree. They are…

— Hal Porter

When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with them -- that…

— Charles Lamb

One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the…

— Ella Baker

While I did a lot of research, I ended up feeling that the best way to write about grief was to describe…

— Meghan O'Rourke

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day.

— Steve Clevenger

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Nelson Mandela

It sounded as if the streets were running, And then the streets stood still.

— Emily Dickinson

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

— Studs Terkel

it is strange how the dead leap out on us at street corners, or in dreams

— Virginia Woolf

Since becoming Mayor, I have advocated for safer streets.

— London Breed

Weapons of war have no place on our streets

— Barack Obama