Sidewalk Quotes
142 quotes by 122 authors
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Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and…
— Robert Benchley
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If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.
— David Ignatow
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My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches…
— Rodney Dangerfield
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My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a…
— Al McGuire
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Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?
— Robert De Niro
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The best pitch I ever heard about cocaine was back in the early eighties when a street dealer followed me down the sidewalk going: I…
— Denis Leary
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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and…
— Jack Kerouac
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The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk.
— Robert De Niro
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Look, it's terrible, I know, but weakness really, really bugs me, to the point that if there is a wounded bird on the sidewalk, I…
— Jodie Foster
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When your house contains such a complex of piping, flues, ducts, wires, lights, inlets, outlets, ovens, sinks, refuse disposers, hi-fi re-verberators, antennae, conduits, freezers, heaters…
— Reyner Banham
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The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
— Jane Jacobs
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This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make…
— Patricia Highsmith
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I learned early on that one of the secrets to campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk…
— Sam Walton
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He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat…
— Stephanie Davis
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Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.
— Jerry Garcia
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We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We…
— Elizabeth May
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I was the greenest rookie that ever was. One evening I was standing out on the sidewalk when a stranger approached and said, 'You're famous…
— Walter Johnson
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Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own…
— Jack Kornfield
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Those 4 guys in the late 60's who attacked a jewel merchant on New York's West 46th St. on the sidewalk, so they could steal…
— Donald E. Westlake
Who Wrote These Sidewalk Quotes
122 authors contributed a total of 142 Sidewalk Quotes, led by these top contributors: