Quotes with streets

  • The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
  • And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
  • A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
  • The new American finds his challenge and his love in the traffic-choked streets, skies nested in smog, choking with the acids of industry, the screech of rubber and houses leashed in against one another while the town lets wither a time and die.
  • The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
  • Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.
  • A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
  • 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.
  • In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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  • P. D. James A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English hedgerow than in the meanest streets of a great city.
    P. D. James
    English crime writer (1920 - 2014)
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  • Cass McCombs A lot of people don't know what it's like to actually be hungry. I do. I've also slept on the streets.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • John Milton And when night, darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Oscar Wilde Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Billy Joe Saunders Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • Agnes Smedley For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Victor Hugo I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Martin Luther King If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Bruce Springsteen In the day we sweat it out in the streets Of a runaway American dream At night we ride through mansions of Glory in suicide machines.
    Born to Run (1974)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bob Schaffer In the late afternoons and early evenings, the crowd is easily over 1 million. That many people simply can't fit in Independence Square. The demonstration spills in to the streets for several blocks.
    Bob Schaffer
    American politician (1962 - )
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  • Carice van Houten In the streets, they're very nice. On Twitter, there are people who love to hate me. Sometimes people get mean. I tend to answer like, 'Careful now, know who you're dealing with...' They're like, 'I'm sorry! Don't send the Lord of Light after me!' It's fun to play with that.
    Carice van Houten
    Dutch actress, singer and radio presenter (1976 - )
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  • Cal Thomas In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Wilma Rudolph 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.
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  • Bernard Marcus Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
    Bernard Marcus
    American billionaire businessman (1929 - )
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  • Tama Janowitz Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.
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  • Barry White Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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