Pavement Quotes

128 quotes by 116 authors

It was then I knew I'd had enough, Burned my credit card for fuel Headed out to where the pavement turns to sand With a… — Neil Young
It's the texture of New York that people miss by filming elsewhere. There are layers and layers of character - even in the pavement -… — Richard Benjamin
Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass. — Wendell Berry
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches… — John Milton
Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere? — Adele
He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman. — Lewis Mumford
It was so quiet that morning in Paris that the heels of my two companions and myself were loud on the deserted pavements. It was… — Philip Gibbs
I believe that evidence shows that there is a real spirit, a real Beach, but it is beneath no pavement whatsoever, for all pavements arise… — Ken Wilber
White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
In the city of flesh I travel without maps, a worried tourist: and Ottilie was a very Venice. I stumbled lost in the blue shade… — John Banville
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with… — Madeleine L'Engle
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few paces it looked… — Nicholas von Hoffman
How many of us are able to distinguish between the odors of noon and midnight, or of winter and summer, or of a windy spell… — Lin Yutang
Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass. — George Gissing
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of… — Thomas Carlyle
All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since. — Jeremy Piven
In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in… — Carey Mulligan
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway… — Charlie Chaplin
If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner,… — Stevie Smith

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