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Sidewalk Quotes by Jane Jacobs
- 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.
- Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life must grow.
- Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.
More Sidewalk Quotes
- Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Denis Leary
- I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac
- The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds,… — 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… — 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,… — Reyner Banham
- The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete… — Jane Jacobs