Pedestrians Quotes

• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle—or instruction.

  Harold Brodkey

  Real, Miracle, Events

  16 Copy quote

• There are two kinds of pedestrians... the quick and the dead.

  Bill Vaughan

  Two, Kind

  7 Copy quote

• It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.

  Stone Gossard

  Thinking, Cities, City Streets

  Active Living Network Interview, www.activeliving.org.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pedestrian accessibility is the key.

  Kim Delaney

  Keys, Accessibility

  57 Copy quote

• God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Running, Animal, Order

  23 Copy quote

• Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.

  Robert James Thomson

  Looks, Cyclists, Drivers

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

  Lewis Mumford

  Travel, Mean, Cooking

  25 Copy quote

• The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Talking, Hiking

  16 Copy quote

• The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

  Frank Herbert

  Differences, Rabbits, Hitting

  11 Copy quote

• Watch out for that pedestrian!" "It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!

  Neil Gaiman

  Risk, Watches, Streets

  4 Copy quote

• A pedestrian is a man in danger of his life. A walker is a man in possession of his soul.

  David McCord

  Health, Exercise, Men

  17 Copy quote

• I think that is where poetry reading becomes such an individual thing. I mean I have friend who like poets who just don't say anything to me at all, I mean they seem to me rather ordinary and pedestrian.

  James Laughlin

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, People, Bells

  160 Copy quote

• The importance of pedestrian public spaces cannot be measured, but most other important things in life cannot be measured either: Friendship, beauty, love and loyalty are examples. Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Loyalty, Things In Life, Cities

  34 Copy quote

• A man used to riding in a car cannot understand a pedestrian.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Men, Car, Understanding

  "The Oak and The Calf" by John Leonard, www.nytimes.com. May 6, 1980.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

  Bill Bryson

  Shopping, Car, Friendly

  8 Copy quote

• Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

  Alex Steffen

  Jobs, Creating, Done

  "Alex Steffen on Carbon-Zero Cities". Interview with Theresa Riley, billmoyers.com. March 19, 2013.

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• I kicked off my shoes and pulled his hand away from the wheel so I could straddle his lap and hold him. His grip on me was excruciatingly tight, but I didn't complain. We were on an insanely busy street, with endless cars rumbling past on one side and a crush of pedestrians on the other, but neither of us cared. He was shaking violently, as if he were sobbing uncontrollably, but he made no sound and shed no tears. The sky cried for him, the rain coming down hard and angry, steaming off the ground.

  Sylvia Day

  Crush, Rain, Past

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.499, Penguin

  30 Copy quote

  Show source

• I guess I have a gift for expressing pedestrian tastes. In a way, it's kind of depressing.

  Bill Watterson

  Depressing, Way, Taste

  Source: www.tcj.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

  Thomas Sowell

  Safety, Car, Realizing

  5 Copy quote

• A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

  Brendan Behan

  Hands, Modern Life, Toss

  6 Copy quote

• Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of wandering about in the open air to examine the architecture, the spectacles, and the stuff for sale, will still hanker after surprises and strangers. That the city as a whole is one of the most pedestrian-unfriendly places in the world suggests something of the problems to be faced, but that its attraction is a pedestrian oasis suggests the possibility of recovering the spaces in which walking is viable.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Garden, Vegas, Oasis

  5 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• Being a pedestrian again is very exciting because in L.A. you live in your car, and you're on a freeway all the time.

  Nicole Ari Parker

  Car, Exciting, Freeways

  4 Copy quote

• A pedestrian hit me and went under my car.

  Unknown

  God, Car, Stupidity

  20 Copy quote