Quotes of Thoroughfare - somelinesforyou

“ If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well… ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ”

- Charles Kuralt

“ Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for one's crews. ”

- Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

“ I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive. ”

- Carrie Fisher

“ Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power. ”

- Gregory Corso

“ Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back. ”

- Unknown

“ We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life? ”

- Jane Elliott

“ Obedience to truth known, is the king's highway to that which is still beyond us. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ I half expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street and hang out with the Count. ”

- George A. Romero

“ I met someone on the street who said wasn't it great that we're going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and when you think about it like that, it is great, it's so American. ”

- Andy Warhol

“ Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. ”

- William Cobbett

“ Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology. ”

- Jay Leno

“ It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically. ”

- Walter Kerr

“ I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway. ”

- Greg Egan

“ Wickedness is in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets. ”

- Bible

“ From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone. ”

- Barbara Ehrenreich

“ If we would simply take about a fourth of that and all of the various pork projects that were in the highway bill, and redirect some of that to the Gulf region, we would have billions of dollars to help rebuild that area and... not waste money that would otherwise be spent on a lot of things that don't have much to do with rebuilding highways and bridges,… ”

- Jon Kyl

“ I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami. ”

- Dan Marino

“ The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. Not a select party. ”

- John Keats

“ Understanding is a two-way street. ”

- Eleanor Roosevelt

“ What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. ”

- J. G. Ballard

“ By the street of by-and-by, one arrives at the house of never. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everybody dances with the Grim Reaper. ”

- Robert Alton Harris

“ Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ I look at victory as milestones on a very long highway. ”

- Joan Benoit Samuelson

“ I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, "Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres.". ”

- Ellen DeGeneres

“ I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. ”

- Victor Hugo
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