#street

I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#cape #deal #drawers #get #go

Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.' ↗

— Stephen Carter

#always #backgrounds #black #character #even

I believe that the average guy in the street will give up a great deal, if he really understands the cost of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while we're drastically cutting our energy consumption, we're actually raising our standard of living. ↗

— David R. Brower

#average #average guy #believe #consumption #cost

Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#activity #arrogant #assertion #century #comprehensible

I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide. ↗

— Young Buck

#came #doing #got #hood #i

I didn't do the marching down the streets, jumping in front of the lines and holding hands... that wasn't me. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#front #hands #holding #holding hands #i

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#about #against #down #enthusiastic #get

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#backstreet #band #metal #poison #pop

I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind. ↗

— Ruth Buzzi

#i #influence #learned #mind #power