Sidewalk Quotes

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac
Life Matter Suitcases Our Sidewalk Ways Battered Had Road Longer Piled Go Were Again
If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing. Betty White
You Man Hate Lost Sidewalk Those See Something Disappearing Like Opens Protect Still Traffic Up Walking Get Lady Door Grew Chivalry Your Fast
Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. John Updike
Light Lonely Sidewalk Bookstores Neighborhoods Spilling Onto
If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it. Elizabeth Strout
You Will Meet Sidewalk About Divorced New Talk Go Get York New York Anybody Therapy
Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems. Frances Beinecke
Before Sidewalk Sewage Systems Absorb Roadside Reduce Proven Been Green Pavement Gardens Flooding Streets
I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic. Grace Abbott
Responsibility Baby Sidewalk Mine Carriage Must Take Firm Because Traffic Very Wheel Hold Stand Watching
Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric. James Howard Kunstler
Car Rich Pedestrian Sidewalk Extremely Destructive Parallel Fabric Civic Physical Parked Parking Supply Vehicles Buffer Protects Lots Psychological Which Moving Create Reasons Barrier Eliminate Desirable Two Need
The last thing the theatre owners wanted was for people who spent $200 to see 'Les Miserables' to come out again and see the real miserable children of America, right there on the sidewalk. Jonathan Kozol
Theatre People Miserable Sidewalk Spent Out See Come Real America Owners Children Wanted Again Les Les Miserables Who Right Thing Last
I only come up with things when I am talking to myself, which I do constantly. The sidewalk and the subway are the best places for this. I speak at full volume and then laugh at myself if I like what I just said. Kate McKinnon
Best Myself Speak Sidewalk Laugh Constantly Only Volume Come Like Talking Said Am Up Just Which Places Subway Then Full Things
I had this dream in my head of, if I got hired by 'SNL, what that moment would be like. And I dreamed that I would, like, collapse on the sidewalk and cry to the heavens. I got this call, and it didn't happen naturally. But I did it anyway because I wanted to have that moment. So I did collapse. Kate McKinnon
Sidewalk Collapse Dream Would Would-Be Dreamed Had Head Like Cry Call Because Got Hired SNL Did Heavens Wanted Happen Anyway Naturally Moment
Most Americans probably have no idea how hostile anti-abortion sidewalk counseling outside clinics can be. There's a reason pro-choicers volunteer to escort patients as they make their way past angry crowds to the clinic door. Katha Pollitt
Angry Past Sidewalk Way No Idea Crowds Counseling Outside Hostile Volunteer Idea Most Make How Clinic Clinics Escort American Patients Door Reason
I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips. Louise Erdrich
Long Before Tree Sidewalk Favorite Wear Rarely Trips Touch Step Cracks Going Watch
On Tuesday 26 July 2011, I was arrested in front of the White House along with a dozen other pro-immigrant advocates and clergy. We sat down on the sidewalk in front of the White House with a banner that read 'One Million Deported Under President Obama' and refused to move when the police ordered us to. Luis Gutierrez
Police White White House Down Other President President Obama Sidewalk Obama Along Clergy House Read Advocate Arrested July Front Tuesday Move Refused Ordered Banner Us Sat Dozen Million
I was famous in a way that was kind of terrifying. I had no protection. When reporters showed up at my house, there wasn't even a sidewalk. They were literally parked on my front lawn. Marcia Clark
Protection Sidewalk Way Kind Lawn Parked Had House Terrifying Were Up Reporters Front Famous Literally Even
I promise you a police car on every sidewalk. Marion Barry
You Police Car Every Sidewalk Promise
At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris. Michael Dirda
Money Down Saved Sleeping Sidewalk Once Backpack Stations Paris Through Cheap Thumb Readily Pillow Yellow Mexico Train Lemon Warmth Europe Rides Even Traveled Early Early 20s Night
People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with. Michael Zaslow
People Dog Try Too Much Will Sick Too Aid Lying Sidewalk Find Sooner Deal Shelter Than Person Much
It was precisely my love of the First Amendment that made me join sidewalk activists in 2010 to support an Islamic community center's right to open in Lower Manhattan. Mona Eltahawy
Love Me Made First Community Sidewalk Join Open Support First Amendment Islamic Amendment Precisely Manhattan Center Lower Activists Right
The worst thing you can do to a filmmaker is to walk out of his film and go, 'That was a nice movie.' But if you can cause people to walk out and then argue about the film on the sidewalk... I think we're all seeking dissension, and we love to affect an audience. Paul Haggis
Love You People Cause Walk Nice Think Sidewalk Worst Worst Thing Out Seeking About Argue Audience Go Affect His Movie Then Film Thing Filmmaker
Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our lives inside one form of corporation or another. Robert D. Kaplan
Living Our Sidewalk Corporation Our Lives Out Inside Like Another Venues Private Mall American Form Public Lives Playground
In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk. Roz Chast
People Holding Sidewalk Brooklyn Catch Feel Up Wheel
If you are walking through the hood and you notice the cracks in the sidewalk where all the weeds, pebbles, dirt and grit settle in, that's me. Stephen Jackson
Me You Settle Sidewalk Hood Dirt Weeds Through Walking Cracks Where Grit Notice Pebbles
When I was 4 years old I used to draw on the sidewalk with broken brick. Bud Luckey
Broken Old Sidewalk Draw Years Used Brick

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