Sidewalk Quotes

• 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

  Cities, Ballet, Improvisation

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.50, Vintage

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• 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

  Moon, Wind, White

  Shel Silverstein, “Where The Sidewalk Ends”

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• There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

  Shel Silverstein

  Ends

  Shel Silverstein, “Where The Sidewalk Ends”

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• It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

  Gene Simmons

  Cracks, Destination, Hard

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• 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

  Cracks, Patterns, Awareness

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• 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

  Dog, Lying, Sick

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• Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Towns, Urban Design

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• 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

  Path, Steps, Fantastic

  Stephen King (2017). “It: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

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• Safe is good for sidewalks and swimming pools, but life requires risk if we are to get anywhere.

  Simon Sinek

  Swimming, Risk, Safe

  Twitter post from Nov 23, 2011

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• 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

  Girl, Baby, Responsibility

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• I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

  Joshua Homme

  Feet

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• Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

  Jane Jacobs

  Cities, Streets, Organs

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.27, Vintage

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• 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

  Paris, Car, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Men, Band, Aging

  Robert Benchley (1932). “No Poems”

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• We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. 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. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

  Matthew Fox

  Beauty, Blow, Cracks

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• I feel really passionately about safe, comfortable roads, crosswalks, and sidewalks. Everyone of all economic backgrounds should be able to get to school or the grocery store safely and efficiently so they can live better lives.

  Ben Sollee

  School, Safe, Able

  "Ben Sollee Interview | Activism by cello? On a bike?". Interview with Amanda Taylor, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• And all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.

  Shel Silverstein

  Stay Strong, Life Lesson, Color

  Shel Silverstein, “Colors”

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• Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

  Shel Silverstein

  Inspiring, Children, Life Lesson

  Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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