Quotes about City Streets

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning. Votes: 7

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone. Votes: 5

We must shed the old stereotype of anarchists as bearded bomb throwers furtively stalking about city streets at night. Votes: 5

Assault weapons pose a grave threat to all Americans, but most especially to law enforcement officers on our city streets. Votes: 5

Today barbarism has taken over many city streets, or people fear it has, which comes to much the same thing in the end. Votes: 5

It doesn't matter what you're trying to accomplish. It's all a matter of discipline. I was determined to discover what life held for me beyond the inner-city streets. Votes: 5

Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign of Jesus Christ but city streets tell us of the reign of Satan. Votes: 5

Our children need to be able to see us take a stand for a value and against injustices, be those values and injustices in the family room, the boardroom, the classroom, or on the city streets. Votes: 5

[We're] told cars cause pollution. A 100 years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want? Would you rather die of cancer at eighty or typhoid fever at nine? Votes: 5

The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El. Votes: 5

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I know that when I see someone running on my street, my instincts tell me to let the dog go after him. Votes: 5

Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem. Votes: 5

A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil of fields. A song with the smell of sun-dried hay, where the nimble pitchers handle the pitch-fork; A song tasting of new wheat, and of fresh-husk'd maize. Votes: 5

I miss that time. The cities back then, just after the forests died, were full of wonders, and you'd stumble on them--these princes of the air on common rooftops--the rivers that burst through the city streets so they ran like canals--the rabbits in parking garages--the deer foaling, nestled in Dumpsters like a Nativity. Votes: 5

The idea (for the painting 'Room in New York', 1932, ed.) had been in my mind a long time before I painted it. It was suggested by glimpses of lighted interiors seen as I walked along city streets at night, probably near the district where I live (Washington Square, New York, fh) although it's no particular street or house, but is really a synthesis of many impressions. Votes: 5

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility. Votes: 5

I'm a creature of the New York City streets. Votes: 3

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design? Votes: 3

You can be alone too in the city streets, among the crowds. We are all alone. Votes: 3

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty. Votes: 3

When I grew up in Flatbush, 'we played football, stickball and baseball all the time, right out there on the city streets. Football was my favorite. Votes: 3

It doesn't have to be the Grand Canyon, it could be a city street, it could be the face of another human being - Everything is full of wonder. Votes: 3

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 risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. Votes: 3

My heart has become as hard as a city street, the horses trample upon it, it sings like iron, all day long and all night long they beat, they ring like the hooves of time. Votes: 3

To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets. Votes: 3

It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think. Votes: 3

In the holy solipsism of the young Now I can't walk thru a city street w/out eying each single pedestrian. I feel thier vibe thru my skin, the hair on my neck --- it rises. Votes: 3

Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings. Votes: 3

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood. Votes: 3

I love just seeing shots of New York inside of a fictional movie that are not controlled. I do not like shots with extras, I have to say. I don't mind extras in other scenes, but I love New York City streets just as they look. I don't even care if someone looks at the camera. It doesn't bother me. Votes: 3

Street and park trees provide tremendous benefits to cities. Votes: 2

I love street races; there's something about racing in the middle of a city. Votes: 2

Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts. Votes: 2

I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. Votes: 2

In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings. Votes: 2

You are safer here tonight than you would be on the streets of any other city in the world. Votes: 2

The design of a dress, furniture, a house, a room, a street and a city are all the same process. Votes: 2

What could be better than walking down any street in any city and knowing you're the heavyweight champion of the world? Votes: 2

Every person on the streets of New York is a type. The city is one big theater where everyone is on display. Votes: 2

I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets. Votes: 2

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. Votes: 2

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy. Votes: 2

If you want to get an education in how to get a story and how to survive, then get a street reporter job in New York City. Votes: 2

The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from the city treasury. Votes: 2

As a child I thought it was very boring when I had to sit with [my mother] on the city streets, but the time sank deep and surfaced later. Votes: 2

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets. Votes: 2

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. Votes: 2

We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities. Votes: 2

Bonuses balance my budget in New York City. The bigger the bonuses on Wall Street, the more money I had to spend on poor people. The New York City budget is determined greatly by the bonuses given on Wall Street. Votes: 2

Time, my twin, take me by the hand through the streets of your city Votes: 0

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. Votes: 0

New York City was the world's biggest vibrator. Everything vibrated above, and below the streets. Votes: 0

I grew up on the streets of Baltimore, a city I love to this very day. Votes: 0

Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales. Votes: 0

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. Votes: 0

The murder of John Kennedy in broad daylight in the streets of an American city remains, to me, an unsolved crime. Votes: 0

The modern city consists of...dark, narrow streets full of gasoline fumes, coal dust, and toxic gasses, torn by the noise... Votes: 0

People die when you crowd the streets of New York City with protesters. You can do plenty of protesting on the sidewalk. Votes: 0

I couldn't think of another city in the world that lined its streets with stone leviathans honoring failed rebels against the state. Votes: 0

While wishing a beautiful snowing for the streets of your city, do not forget also to wish a warm house for the homeless! Votes: 0

I would teach U.K. parents how to stop their children throwing litter. London is a beautiful city but its streets are disgusting. Votes: 0

...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. Votes: 0

On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again Votes: 0

My ideal city would be one long main street with no cross streets or side streets to jam up traffic. Just a long one-way street. Votes: 0

Weekdays, New York City's financial district bustles with activity. Its streets are rivers of rushing humanity, its air is thick with the sounds of traffic. Votes: 0

All of the factors that make up a quality city - safe streets, high paying jobs, strong neighborhoods, etc. - emanate from a strong educational premise. Votes: 0

As Mayor, I will lead city government, businesses, and community groups to support innovative projects that will make San Francisco streets and public places vibrant and healthy Votes: 0

He liked the fact that Venice had no cars. It made the city human. The streets were like veins, he thought, and the people were the blood, circulating everywhere. Votes: 0

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished. Votes: 0