Pavements Quotes
26 quotes by 22 authors
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How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with…
— Charles Lindbergh
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I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't…
— Julie Christie
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Do not ride in cars: they are responsible for 20% of all fatal accidents. Do not stay at home: 17% of all accidents occur in…
— Mark Leslie
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I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray, I hear it…
— William Butler Yeats
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We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.
— Jay Griffiths
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All our institutions rest upon business. Without it we should not have schools, colleges, churches, parks, playgrounds, pavements, books, libraries, art, music, or anything else…
— Charles Gates, Jr.
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On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
— Mark Tobey
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate…
— David Johansen
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People think that I popped out of my mother's womb singing 'Chasing Pavements'.
— Adele
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Men, women and children too, ran hysterically, falling and stumbling, getting up, tripping and falling again, rolling over and over. Most of them managed to…
— Martin Caidin
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The roar of the traffic, the passage of undifferentiated faces, this way and that way, drugs me into dreams; rubs the features from faces. People…
— Virginia Woolf
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Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now…
— Virginia Woolf
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What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze…
— Andre Breton
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Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products…
— Ben Goldacre
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The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.
— Martin H. Fischer
Who Wrote These Pavements Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 26 Pavements Quotes as follows: