Streets Quotes

3183 Streets quotes by 2214 unique authors

When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived… — Unknown Author
I am not a terrorist, but neither am I a pacifist. I am simply a regular guy from the Palestinian street advocating only what every… — Marwan Barghouti
Speaker Boehner needs to understand the urgency for reform. Until the House passes a bill that includes a pathway to citizenship, we will continue to… — Unknown Author
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is:… — Unknown Author
Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city — Ilya Kaminsky
At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once… — Jillian Michaels
There's a place down the street; Seven Xs. What does that mean? Maybe it's... girls without skin. — Tom Waits
When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart… — Tom Waits
If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the… — Maria Schell
We have learned that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness. And the surest… — George W. Bush
I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy. — Giuliana Rancic
I can't walk down the street with my head up. I'm not a hat wearer, but now I'm a hat wearer. — Randy Harrison
If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother… — Babe Ruth
Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down… — Wallace Stegner
Children used to be outside. Now the streets are empty. People are indoors looking at television or something. — Helen Levitt
I take everything I learned from the streets and put it in my NBA game. — Allen Iverson
If I dreamt this, while walking, walking in the London streets, the subconscious of each and every other life, past and present, brushing me in… — Nadine Gordimer
You know, I'm the President during this period of time, but I think when the history of this period is written, people will realize a… — George W. Bush
That's the test of street art – to see if anybody stopped. People would cross out ones they didn't like and would star others. I… — Jenny Holzer
But I do think the idea that basic cooking skills are a virtue, that the ability to feed yourself and a few others with proficiency… — Anthony Bourdain
I think of [street food] as the antidote to fast food; it's the clear alternative to the king, the clown and the colonel. — Anthony Bourdain
We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be… — Camille Paglia
She only maintains that it is possible, under some circumstances, for a lady to murder her husband; but that a woman who wears ankle-strap shoes… — Judith Martin
Everyone who is educated today wants to sit at a comfortable desk under a fan and live in an air-conditioned house surrounded by a garden,… — Tayeb Salih
If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but… — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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