Quotes About Thoroughfare

Gough had delivered more than ten thousand speeches to audiences estimated at more than nine million people. Among his listeners was a San Francisco surveyor who named one of the city's main thoroughfares in his honor—out of either a sense of gratitude or, possibly, irony.

In retrospect, we can see all the inconsequential and unnoticed paths of our lives become necessary parts of the main thoroughfare, the road itself laid out for us from above

Her eyes lit up when she mentioned the grand thoroughfare Central Avenue, where black nightclubs flourished and where the Dunbar Hotel, home to the black elite, stood like a mighty fortress.

It was a September evening, and not yet seven o'clock, but the day had been a dreary one, and a dense drizzly fog lay low upon the great city. Mud-colored clouds drooped sadly over the muddy streets. Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy pavement. The yellow glare from the shop-windows streamed out into the steamy, vaporous air, and threw a murky, shifting radiance across the crowded thoroughfare.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.

Lower Fifth Avenue and Washington Square were already sprouting palaces of brownstone and marble. Though there was still no Central Park to give Fifth Avenue a garden view for much of its length, that wide thoroughfare running up the spine of Manhattan was already becoming the city's best residential address.

Across the gateway of my heart I wrote, "No thoroughfare." But love came laughing by and cried, "I enter everywhere." Herbert Shipman

The living being is above all a thoroughfare, and ... the essence of life is in the movement by which life is transmitted.

She walked though the broad thoroughfares between them