Lowly, unpurposeful and random as they may appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life may grow. — Jane Jacobs
Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs. — Jane Jacobs
Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. — Dolores Huerta
Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street. — Dorothy Fields
As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears. — Lu Xun
Pedestrian accessibility is the key. — Kim Delaney
The middle of the road is all of the usable surface. The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations. — Jane Jacobs
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. — William H. Whyte
If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. — Stanley Crouch
I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise. — Tom Waits
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides. — Margaret Thatcher
The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. — John Madden
If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked. — Lao Tzu
It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk. — Gene Simmons
And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet. — Shel Silverstein
But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself. — Shel Silverstein
There is a place where the sidewalk ends. — Shel Silverstein
I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk. — Joshua Homme
You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm. — Larry Page
Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere. — Simon Sinek
Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children. — Margaret Mead
Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk. — Jerry Garcia
Sidewalk Image Quotes
Inspiring Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott! — Dolores Huerta
I hate fashion. Or the word fashion, which sounds colorful, extravagant, expensive and gorgeous. “I never wanted to walk the main street of fashion. I have been walking the sidewalks of fashion from the beginning, so I’m a bit dark. — Yohji Yamamoto
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!? — Bruce Sterling
For many people, the unwritten rules of sidewalk choreography now include this: If what I’m reading or watching on my phone is sufficiently interesting to me, it’s entirely up to you to get out of my way. — Oliver Burkeman
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. — Jack Kerouac
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
On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one’s body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty. — Jim Carroll
My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you." — Rodney Dangerfield
There is a place where the sidewalk ends, And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind. — Shel Silverstein
We have to do what we have to do. Miracles happen. The life force of this planet is very strong. Dandelions poke through sidewalks. We don't know enough to give up. We only know enough to know that we have to try to change the course of human events. — Elizabeth May
My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk. — Al McGuire
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness. — Jack Kerouac
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
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends. — Shel Silverstein
There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. — Matthew Fox
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
There was a time when I liked a good riot. Put on some heavy old street clothes that could stand a bit of sidewalk-scraping, infect myself with something good and contagious, then go out and stamp on some cops. It was great, being nine years old. — Warren Ellis
In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent. — Roman Polanski
Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby. — Lee Marvin
For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter. — Tony Hawk
I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking. — Enrique Penalosa
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. — Robert Benchley
Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? — Doug Stanhope
This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table. — Patricia Highsmith
If we believe [Obama] to be a good man who would never kill noncombatants in a cafe in Houston, sitting out in a sidewalk cafe, smoking - oh, that's right you're not allowed to smoke cigarettes anymore. — Rand Paul
One bright pansy popping through a sidewalk crack will get weeded or stepped on; it's not until twenty fabulous flowers bust through and the pavement is ruined anyway that someone decides maybe it isn't a sidewalk at all, but a flower garden. So please, for the love of gender--go bloom. — S. Bear Bergman
the garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion. — Cecily von Ziegesar
down the sidewalk
where laborers feed their dirty
glistening torsos sandwiches
and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets
on. They protect them from falling
bricks, I guess. — Frank O'Hara
You could start at a path leading nowhere more fantastic than from your own front steps to the sidewalk, and from there you could go… well, anywhere at all. — Stephen King
I've sucked way too much cement for this year. Bad juju rising off them city sidewalks. I need to babble with a brook or two, inhale starlight, make friends with some trees. — Tom Robbins
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