Streets Quotes
Life lessons picked up on the block.
This collection features people reflecting on childhoods spent outside, on the block, and in cities they came to know inside out, shaping who they became. Read more in our City quotes collection.
I would have liked to be on the streets of Manhattan during 9/11. My working theory is that people are much kinder to each other in times of trauma than we tend to portray in our stories.
Background checks applied universally and nationally would take millions of illegal guns off the streets of our cities.
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I ran into Ben McKenzie a couple of times on the streets of L.A., and we hung out one time, and that's it.
Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation of laboratory-bred rice.
I like the idea of an enlightened principality. In the early eighteen-hundreds, in Germany, there were princes who built schools, streets, homes. I like that.
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.
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
Whenever I came up against presidents of other companies, I was always smarter, because I was from the streets.
When crime was spiking in our communities, Dad wrote the crime bill that put 100,000 cops on the streets and led to an eight-year drop in crime across the country.
Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.
In Alexandria, my birthplace and my home, all streets bearing Jewish names have been renamed.
When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.
