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Quotes About Streets

Beer must be made by food companies. It makes you wander the streets at 3 am looking for things to eat. "What's that, is it moving, get it!! It's a nun! Fry her!! Fry her!"
~ Dylan Moran
Recklessness is a species of crime and should be so regarded on our streets and highways.
~ Unknown
As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So many lamps, and they burned until morning, my father said, and so people did not need to carry lanterns.
~ Mary Antin
But often in the world's most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter the knowledge of our buried life.
~ Matthew Arnold
La pression de la ville : de toutes parts. Les maisons ne sont pas là pour qu'on y demeure, mais pour qu'il y ait des rues et, dans les rues, le mouvement incessant de la ville.
~ Maurice Blanchot
The streets are full, A horde of entitlement Scuttling out of alleys and Slithering out in tailored suits. The skyline, A glimmering canvas, Promising boundless joys Within the ambit of its crown. A life spent, Reaching and straining Towards conquests. A life spent, Blind to one's own.
~ Unknown
I spent some of my endless hours of leisure learning how to shoot a gun, which I thought might come in handy someday, if not in the war then back on the streets of New York.
~ Meg Rosoff
During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There are some masters from whom you can learn good things. Streets are one of those masters!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
It was raining outside. The little drops fell on the rooftops, on the streets … maybe also on the mountains….drops of water hung from clotheslines and played tag and sometimes one of them would fall and before it fell it would S T R E T C H and S T R E T C H because you could see it was hard for it to let go. It had been raining for a week…and the clouds were so swollen they were right on the roof tops.
~ Unknown
An oily fog had mystified the streets, sheathing the façades to either side, estranging familiar landmarks and coating the windows with a skein of liquid seemingly denser than water.
~ Unknown
As the columnist Dan Savage says, instead they point "to the suicide rate among gay teenagers—which the religious right works so hard to drive up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ as evidence that the gay lifestyle is destructive. It's like intentionally running someone down with your car and then claiming that it isn't safe to walk the streets.
~ Michael Shermer
Y siguieron los dos, Augusto y Eugenia, en direcciones contrarias, cortando con sus almas la enmarañada telaraña espiritual de la calle. Porque la calle forma un tejido en que se entrecruzan miradas de deseo, de envidia, de desdén, de compasión, de amor, de odio, viejas palabras cuyo espíritu quedó cristalizado, pensamientos, anhelos, toda una tela misteriosa que envuelve las almas de los que pasan.
~ Miguel de Unamuno
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.
~ Mike Royko
Lo, there is much hatred in the streets, The wise says, "Yes," the fool says, "No," The ignorant is satisfied.
~ Unknown
Lastly, it should be noted that the nostalgia which the reading public maintains for my former Baker Street address does not exist in me. I no longer crave the bustle of London streets, nor do I miss navigating the tangled mires created by the criminally disposed.
~ Mitch Cullin
North-south streets are called "avenues" with the location tag at the end; for instance, 24th Avenue NW or 32nd Avenue South. Roads that run east-west are "streets" with the location tag at the beginning; for instance, NE 49th Street or SW Spokane Street.
~ Unknown
Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.
~ Nalini Singh
welcome him. And in the dark crowded alleyways of the
~ Naomi Ragen
There were families everywhere, loose loud chains of them wandering down the streets, in and out of shops, young children with rings of ice-cream round their mouths and saddles of freckles across their noses.
~ Niall Williams
That was one reason why she got up in the middle of the night. The streets and lights and noises and smells of the city, the cold air of the very early morning, they were a way of controlling her thinking, of calming it, damping it down.
~ Unknown
As I moved past the big houses shrouded by dripping trees I fought the urge to look over my shoulder. Looking back would frighten her. I told myself there was nothing unusual about a woman walking the streets at midnight-I did it-but my hindbrain was stirring.
~ Nicola Griffith
Revolutions are carried out in order to change the ownership of property and the names of streets. The revolutionary who seeks to change "man's condition" ends up being shot for being a counter-revolutionary.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila