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Quotes About Promenade

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
~ Wallace Stevens
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
~ Rebecca Solnit
The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.
~ Wallace Stevens
No one's serious at seventeen, When lindens line the promenades
~ Arthur Rimbaud
The light teaches you to convert life into a festive promenade.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Vicambulist (n.) One who walks about in the streets. Now that streetwalker has taken on connotations some people may not care to ascribe to themselves, we have a dearth of words to describe someone who simply likes to walk about in the streets of a city. Here's hoping vicambulist will enter everyday language anew. also
~ Ammon Shea
In the evenings at the time of the sunset promenade it was possible to see couples of all sorts taking the air and holding hands without embarrassment: men and men, women and women, and yes, men and women too.
~ Salman Rushdie
Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.
~ Sara Sheridan
A few whiskies in dull bars, a visit or tow to the Empire promenade, a little whoring on the Q.T.; the sort of dingy, drabby fornications that you can imagine happening between Egyptian mummies after the museum is closed for the night.
~ George Orwell
nocturnal walks along the promenade with the looming intensities of Manhattan glittering across dark water.
~ Ben Lerner
Anima is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Am a is walking along the promenade of the waterway that bisects her city, a few early morning barges cruise slowly by. This is not about feeling something or about speaking words this is about being together.
~ Bernardine Evaristo
Emma était accoudée à sa fenêtre (elle s'y mettait souvent : la fenêtre, en province, remplace les théâtres et la promenade)
~ Gustave Flaubert
You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn't.
~ Andy Grammer
Four of the ship's lifeboats were virtually useless because of their position alone. They were the first two forward on either side. In an emergency lowering, they would come down outside the enclosed promenade deck. It might well be impossible, during an emergency, to open the heavy glass windows in order to get into the boats.
~ Gordon Thomas
Yet the days I spent in Mazatlán were peaceful, strolling on the malecón—thirteen miles of seafront promenade
~ Paul Theroux
Coogee is a delightful, slightly old-fashioned suburb; it has parks and gardens and reserves, a good well-kept beach, and an excellent promenade above the beach. It is a suburb for people who appreciate those aspects of life.
~ Richie Benaud
And we clung to each other in a shelter smelling of orange peel and piss on the promenade, and shrieked with glee, like the Bacchae who dismembered Orpheus.
~ Unknown