Sidewalk Quotes

142 Sidewalk quotes by 120 unique authors

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
If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them. — David Ignatow
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
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
Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand? — Robert De Niro
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
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
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
Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk. — Robert De Niro
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk. — Jerry Garcia
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
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
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
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
Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is for vandals to break a… — James Q. Wilson
We are bored in the city, there is no longer any Temple of the Sun. Between the legs of the women walking by, the dadaists… — Ivan Chtcheglov
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past… — Jack Kerouac
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building,… — Bruce Sterling
Suddenly I realized that I wanted everything to be as it was when I was younger. When you're young enough, you don't know that you… — Heather O'Neill

Who Wrote These Sidewalk Quotes

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