#streets

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#brooklyn #hot #i #i was raised #raised

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#began #better #cast #ever #far

I had taken on the color of the climate around me and had driven back all the emotion that rose from the Brooklyn streets so that I could belong to the exclusive club of Congress. ↗

— Emanuel Celler

#back #belong #brooklyn #climate #club

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#always #bleak #family #family life #father

I look forward to working with the NRA to come up with ways in which we can use common sense approaches to reduce the level of violence that we see - in our streets, and make the American people as safe as they possibly can be. ↗

— Eric Holder

#american people #approaches #come #common #common sense

The epiphany for me was that I wasn't a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#had #i #me #posters #put

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. ↗

— Tama Janowitz

#armored #bomb #cars #cockroaches #deeds

When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me. ↗

— R. Kelly

#i #knowing #loved #me #no pressure

People on the streets are ready for hockey. ↗

— Eric Lindros

#people #ready #streets

I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#ask #did #doubt #give #handling