Sidewalk Quotes - Page 2

• Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspirational, Life, Cute

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.

  Russell Baker

  Running, New York, Cities

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• People hide their truest nature. I understood that; I even applauded it. What sort of world would it be if people bled all over the sidewalks, if they wept under trees, smacked whomever they despised, kissed strangers, revealed themselves?

  Alice Hoffman

  People, Tree, World

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• The wind outside nested in each tree, prowled the sidewalks in invisible treads like unseen cats. Tom Skelton shivered. Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows' Eve. Everything seemed cut from soft black velvet or gold or orange velvet. Smoke panted up out of a thousand chimneys like the plumes of funeral parades. From kitchen windows drifted two pumpkin smells: gourds being cut, pies being baked.

  Ray Bradbury

  Cat, Cutting, Night

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• I will not play at tug o' war, I'd rather play at hug o' war

  Shel Silverstein

  War, Play, Hug

  Shel Silverstein, “Hug O'War”

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• On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.

  E. O. Wilson

  Running, Queens, Fire

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• I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.

  Woody Allen

  Memories, Rain, Love Rain

  Woody Allen, Richard J. Anobile (1977). “Woody Allen's Play it again, Sam”, Not Avail

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• 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

  Daughter, Children, Fall

  FaceBook post by Tony Hawk from Dec 17, 2012

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• There was a point in the '80s when I looked out at my audience and I saw people that - were I not on the stage - they'd sooner slug me as they walked by me on the sidewalk. And I realized that I was way beyond the choir.

  Michael Stipe

  People, Way, Saws

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• If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

  David Ignatow

  Flower, Smell, Cracks

  "Poems, 1934-1969".

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• Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

  Henry Miller

  Lying, Doe, Moments

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• I like these people swarming on the sidewalks, wedged into a little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs, cold lands, and the sea streaming like a wet wash. I like them, for they are double. They are here and elsewhere.

  Albert Camus

  Space, Fog, Sea

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• The screech and mechanical uproar of the big city turns the citified head, fills citified ears - as the song of birds, wind in the trees, animal cries, or as the voices and songs of his loved ones once filled his heart. He is sidewalk-happy.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Love, Song, Heart

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Kids, Scotch, Bird

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• It is in the small things we see it.
  The child's first step,
  as awesome as an earthquake.
  The first time you rode a bike,
  wallowing up the sidewalk.

  Anne Sexton

  Courage, Children, Earthquakes

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I had a mother who walked to the library with me, and you can't walk to a lot of libraries in San Antonio because - guess what? - there are no sidewalks, except in the neighborhoods. And they're across big boulevards, and it's so hot, you can't even walk to the corner. So things like that affect how children can get to libraries. So there are a lot of things involved.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Children, Library

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Interview with Ruth Behar.

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• I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

  Tom Waits

  Ice Cream, Two, House

  Song: Ice Cream Man, 2006

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• Let's say that life is this square of the sidewalk. We are born at this crack and we die at that crack. Now we find ourselves somewhere inside the square and in the process of walking outside of it. Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless? Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?

  Bill Watterson

  Squares, Important, Doe

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• You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm.

  Larry Page

  Track, Worms, Rainstorms

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• Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

  Mark Twain

  Feet, Long, Yards

  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ch. 2 (1876)

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• 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

  Small Changes, Cities, Wealth

  "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".

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• Curiosity restores is a state of heightened awareness. Culturally, this has been considered a child's activity. By the time we're grown, we're supposed to know enough not to get bogged down in life's miraculous detail. But the spiritual journey reactivates our sense of miracle and invites us to pause again, squatting over the sidewalk cracks, to ponder the lives of ants and stars.

  Christina Baldwin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Stars

  Christina Baldwin (1991). “Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest”, Bantam

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• 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

  Flower, Garden, Pavement

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• I think it's important as a performer, no matter where I travel, if I run into someone at the airport or I'm having a conversation on an airplane, run into someone on the sidewalk, or you're waiting on a long line and you start talking to somebody, who doesn't really share a lot of your same views, but then you come to commonality, I think that's very very important as well.

  Reggie Watts

  Running, Airplane, Thinking

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• I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

  Bob Dylan

  Bob, Trash, Dylan

  "Why Bob Dylan deserves the Nobel Prize in Literature". Interview with Robert Chalmers, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 13, 2016.

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