Sidewalk Quotes - Page 3

• I think we should only get 3 honks a month on the car horn. Then, someone cuts you off, you press the horn, and nothing happens. You're like, "Crap! I wish I hadn't seen Ricky on the sidewalk!"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Cutting

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• I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk.

  Werner Herzog

  Potato Chips, Potatoes, Restaurants

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• Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Brave, Trying, Comfort

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.162, Hamilton Books

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• I was almost impeached for getting cars off sidewalks which car owning upper classes had illegally appropriated for parking.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Class, Car, Parking

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• We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Cities, People

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• We have the right to rid our houses of ants; but what we have no right to do is to forget to honor the ant as God made it, out in the place where God made the ant to be. When we meet the ant on the sidewalk, we step over him. He is a creature, like ourselves; not made in the image of God, it is true, but equal with man as far as creation is concerned. The ant and the man are both creatures.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Men, House, Honor

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• There can be no reasonable right to live on sidewalks. Society needs order, and hence has a right to a minimally civilized ambience in public spaces. Regarding the homeless, this is not merely for aesthetic reasons because the anesthetic is not merely unappealing. It presents a spectacle of disorder and decay that becomes a contagion.

  George Will

  Order, Space, Needs

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• 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

  Basketball, Kids, House

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• My parents had a sidewalk cafe: every Sunday there was an accordion player and apparently I went through the motions, squeezing a shoebox. One of the regulars in 'the cafe said to my father: "I think you should get your son an accordion-that's what he's trying to do, with that shoebox." So they got me a little cardboard diatonic accordion-I still have it. I started to play the National Anthem, and things like that. It seems I was musically gifted-but my parents just never pushed in that direction.

  Toots Thielemans

  Father, Son, Sunday

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• A lot of artists have been persuaded into doing whatever they can do to gain attention. The media, of course, will position and promote the worst of them to the front page. The sidewalk to crime becomes the marketing campaign. These artists have seen it work and sell millions and millions of records for other artists.

  Chuck D

  Artist, Media, Marketing

  Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, progressive.org. July 20, 2005.

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• One day I was in an airport rushing to catch a plane. I was sweating and puffing when I looked to my right and saw a man walking half as fast as I was, but going faster. He was walking on a moving sidewalk. When we walk in the Spirit, eh comes underneath us and bears us along. We're still walking, but we walk dependent on him.

  Tony Evans

  Moving, Men, Airports

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• We're going to come up with a great healthcare plan, whether it's healthcare savings accounts, we have a lot of different things. We're going to get rid of the lines between states, we're going to have great competitive bidding. But I say all the time, you can call it anything you want. People are not going to die in the middle of the street. People are not going to die on the sidewalk if I'm president, okay?

  Donald Trump

  People, President, Different

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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• I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid.

  Luc Sante

  Art, Believe, Giving

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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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• Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

  Carol Burnett

  Baby, Over You, Healthy

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• The court has said you are entitled to robust speech on public sidewalks, even insulting speech.

  Jay Sekulow

  Insulting, Speech, Robust

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• Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along.

  Bernadette Roberts

  Running, Spiritual, Moving

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• Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Home, Learning, Dark

  FaceBook post by Maxine Hong Kingston from Dec 18, 2011

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• There weren't sidewalks to skateboard on and malls to hang out in. There wasn't anything to do. And I was too scrawny to play football, and so I decided I was just gonna sit at the piano, because it made more sense.

  John Fullbright

  Football, Play, Piano

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I stand upon a block of stillness. It is more secure than any sidewalk. I bring with me my own sidewalk.

  Jane Roberts

  Block, Secure, My Own

  Jane Roberts (2013). “The “Unknown” Reality: Volume Two: A Seth Book in Two Volumes”, p.477, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you're a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet.

  Megan Abbott

  Fall, Kids, Night

  Megan Abbott (2012). “Dare Me: A Novel”, p.70, Hachette UK

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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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• Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk?

  Doug Stanhope

  Fall, Oysters, Medicine

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• The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts, and bicycles which fearlessly find their way amidst the turmoil, with foot-passengers winding in and out, and covering the sidewalks with their multitude, give the effect of a single monstrous organism, which writhes swiftly along the channel where it had run in the figure of a flood till you were tired of that metaphor. You are now a molecule of that vast organism.

  William Dean Howells

  Running, Tired, Science

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