Language Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The street is full of humiliations to the proud.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the fine souls who serve us, and not what is called fine society. Fine society is only a self-protection against the vulgarities…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remember the street car cannot turn out.

— Charles Melville Hays

I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;…

— Colum McCann

I have had a few people recognize me in public. But I wouldn't like everybody to recognize me. I can still walk across the…

— Bonnie Wright

'Nobody goes to jail.' This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one that saw virtually every major bank and financial company on Wall…

— Matt Taibbi

Sometimes I feel people can move past what they've grown up around and their surroundings while in a place and some people need closure…

— Dianna Agron

I'm married to the street; I ain't gonna switch over. I ain't gonna go religion on nobody. I believe in God - God is…

— Trick Daddy

I do have a really good memory. I mean, like, I can remember all the phone numbers of everybody on the street I grew…

— Mary Karr

I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.

— Mike Pence

When you're running down the street on fire, people get out of your way!

— Richard Pryor