Pavement Quotes

If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.

There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.

On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.

I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.

I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?

Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.

People are the nature of the city, and you can feel it in the pavement.

One function, at least, of true wilderness is to provide a refuge from the crassitudes of civilization-whether visible, intangible, audible-whether of billboard, of pavement, of auto horn-all of these are urban essences; all are negations of wilderness.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

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.

Dreamers of dreams may be pathfinders; but they may be mere vagrants. Of those who depart from the pavements, only a few are explorers: the rest are mere jaywalkers

He who touches the soil of Manhattan and the pavement of New York, touches, whenever he knows or not, Walt Whitman.

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

He's out of his depth on a wet pavement.

I would tell the Democrats in Washington who are trying to be civil with the "bipartisanship" to please stop and let the joker die once and for all, let the agents of chaos hit the pavement, stop picking them up.

When insolvent, pack minimally, with a valise tough enough to be thrown onto a London pavement from a first- or second-floor window. Insist on hotel rooms no higher.

It’s been a long time since Sherlock Holmes jumped off that roof - it’s time to reveal the truth about what happened between him and the pavement.

As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

We leave our presence in the pavement. We're walking over it, sitting on steps.

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

Suppose I lay down on the pavement and you run over me a few times with my own car...just for old times.

Commuting in a wheelchair is not easy. I live in a very old part of Rome. These cobbles everywhere... terrible! In London, it is the same. Every pavement is uneven.

You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Volkswagen; cloudy fingerprints evaporated seconds ater he did. "We all listen to you, Sam." He jumped to the pavement. "You just don't always talk to us.

Mrs. Murdo, walkind even more briskly to keep her spirits up, was crossing Harken Square when something fell to the pavement just in front of her with a terrific thump. How extraordinary, she thought, bending to pick it up. It was sort of a bundle. She began to untie it.

And there it is: Even though we’re standing in the same patch of sun-drenched pavement, we might as well be a hundred thousand miles apart.

All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.

She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

Data is the fabric of the modern world: just like we walk down pavements, so we trace routes through data, and build knowledge and products out of it.