Sidewalk Quotations

Safe Routes to School is one with great potential to get children walking and biking to school again. The program uses federal grants to make road and sidewalk repairs aimed at getting kids to school safely on foot or bicycle. The money also supports efforts to get the community, school officials and others involved.

In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to do things. Los Angeles is about kicking back, relaxing, your inner child, peace.

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Parallel parking is desirable for two reasons: parked cars create a physical barrier and psychological buffer that protects pedestrians on the sidewalk from moving vehicles; and a rich supply of parallel parking can eliminate the need for parking lots, which are extremely destructive of the civic fabric.

If you get divorced in New York, you go into therapy and will talk to anybody you meet on the sidewalk about it.

I learned early on that one of the secrets of campus leadership was the simplest thing of all: speak to people coming down the sidewalk before they speak to you. I would always look ahead and speak to the person coming toward me. If I knew them I would call them by name, but even if I didn't I would still speak to them.

I don't know what in the world happened. I don't know if it was the power of the prayer or God himself, but it just reached out, either while I was driving or walking down the sidewalk or sleeping, and it just - the power of God in Jesus just grabbed me... All of a sudden, I just believed in Jesus Christ. I did, I believed in him!

There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

Very calmly, we went out to the sidewalk in front of our office and continued our discussion.

Streets and their sidewalks-the main public places of a city-are its most vital organs.

We hope to get the sidewalk in the area open and protected with some jersey barriers, and then we will begin feeling our way up the bank to see what is left that is loose.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

We are taking small steps -- planters, new lighting and sidewalk repairs.

Let me assure you, there isn't anybody walking up and down my sidewalk these days,

She then walked toward the sidewalk to get a better view of the vehicle and noticed that it had just passed her and was now at the end of the block, making a U-turn (and) once again facing toward her.

She hit the ground so hard, she cracked the sidewalk and moved the concrete about four inches,

My favorite place is whichever sidewalk is beneath my feet because I am just constantly fascinated by walking and looking and learning. If I've already walked a street five times, then the next five times I walk it looking up, and I learn something about the cornices.

I would guess we got 20 to 24 inches at least. I'm sure we got a couple of feet. Sunday afternoon I was outside raking, picking up branches. Woke up Monday morning and the sidewalk was bare.

I didn't mention anything about the sidewalk sale, and when my dad got to the store on Monday morning, people were lined up to get in. My dad asked them what they were doing there. They told him they were there to buy more of the sidewalk sale bargains they had purchased last week,

I am housebound. There is no point to shoveling the sidewalk ... the drifts are impossibly high and gusty,

CC means 'condemned by the city'. If a structure is a threat to public safety or public health, it's going to have to come down. If you seen the CC in front of the sidewalk at your house, there's no reason to fear. We're not going to come down tomorrow and tear your house down. That's just another step in the process.

He did not come to Vegas with the express intent of driving on the sidewalk and killing people. That wasn't his intention when coming to town, ... However, the instantaneous decision was made, and he did deliberately and intentionally drive on the sidewalk.

He just drove onto a wide section of the sidewalk and took out all those people, ... He is a bad guy, and it looks like it may have been intentional. ... All I know is that he stole his mother's car and that he had had a bad day at drug court.

Green roofs, roadside plantings, porous pavement, and sidewalk gardens have been proven to reduce flooding. They absorb rainwater before it swamps the streets and sewage systems.

I was driving up on the sidewalk just to get there on time to set up.

I think the sidewalk program, I think we need to bring that back. I think that was a good idea. If we could find the money to do that again, we need to bring that program back. It's part of the infrastructure of this city. It makes it look better and you see a lot of people doing a lot more walking because of it.

I think the sidewalk program definitely needs to come back and I think that we need to get back on track, and on new developments we need to make sure sidewalks are part of that new development.

Realm Realty is agreeable to the 'right in and right out' restriction and is awaiting the county's comments to that drawing. I would think that a deceleration lane, right in - right out, headache bar and sidewalk should appease most everyone. We do appreciate all the input we have received and have diligently worked to try to incorporate many of these suggestions.

Suddenly, I see the wall falling past the window. I was afraid somebody would be walking on the sidewalk and get squashed. It was like an earthquake.

I would love to have them both come back, ... The sidewalk program was extremely well received and quite frankly it was never funded as much as I would have liked to see it.

We have a lot of sidewalk repairs throughout the city, and in some cases sidewalk damage from other work.

We're working on getting the sidewalk buttoned up.

We have always said that men in police and Interior Ministry commando uniforms use Interior Ministry vehicles, raid our houses and arrest our sons. After a short time, we find some of them tortured or killed and thrown either on a sidewalk or in the river. We have warned all the officials and the American forces, but they did not respond to our calls until the American forces found this group.

The property owners on Main Street need to take better care of their buildings and storefronts. There's so much litter and garbage. ... I clean my sidewalk daily.

The defendant was loitering on the sidewalk in drag and then approached an undercover officer in his car and offered to orally copulate him for money.

When we plan a campaign, we make sure we take care of the basics like television and print and then we add something different. The sidewalk displays, being an innovative concept, fit perfectly with our aims, stressing the innovation of Zephyr and Lincoln as a whole.

The public works subcommittee discussed using the sidewalk fund moneys for Echo Lake and connect those pieces of existing sidewalk as best we can, ... We thought we'd put it on the table, to free up Mr. Polletta to put the path around the lake.

The tree root lifts up and breaks the sidewalk. They trim the roots back from the trees and put a root barrier, a piece of material next to the sidewalk that deters the tree roots from growing in that direction again.

I started the tradition of sidewalk sales at the ripe old age of 16,

The sidewalk requests come from many places ---- community members, the Planning Group, our own field operations staff that notice where sidewalks might be needed. So every year, we apply for funds to construct as many sidewalks as we can.

The sidewalk has been out there 100 years,

You need street trees to form canopies that help unify the street. They provide shelter for the sidewalk and keep people separated from traffic. It's almost mandatory.

this is not a new element of the ordinance, that the property owner maintain the curb and sidewalk and kept it free from debris.

There was no sidewalk there so he had to walk on the street.

Absolutely we need them back, ... Do we have the money for them? I would doubt it. The sidewalk program, I could use that. Before this budget year, I knew I had to replace the sidewalks at my house, but I didn't push to get that in there because the city didn't have the money for it. But I could have absolutely benefited from that program.

It is so wonderful to come up the sidewalk and have that feeling of seeing so many people here. Some of the things that were really important to us were the comments of other athletes, other coaches and other parents about our girls at the championship. With their hard work and their positive attitude, they were a perfect example of what a team should be like.

It's the only chalk that has enough pigment to be put on sidewalk and show up with bright colors. They get a good deal because this chalk is worth $17 in the stores.

It's not an easy fix and I still don't think it's an appropriate sidewalk material. If it was, you'd see it everywhere.

They can either come inside and watch the rest of the show, or stand on the sidewalk and watch the silent-movie version of the show.

They laid down on the sidewalk without a permit, they were advised three times to leave the area, they chose not to leave therefore they were arrested.

If there was something dangerous going on or that could happen we would close it. One of the requirements (of the construction agreement) is that the sidewalk has to be open. We take all the precautions to be sure nothing happens. Up to now I think it's safe. If not, we will stop anybody from walking there.

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing

It's hard to see your destination when you're focused on the cracks in the sidewalk.

Either you were a hoodlum, or you were a puddle on the sidewalk.

I decided it was in the city's best interest that the marble, which is not a good sidewalk surface, should come up.

He often sweeps his sidewalk and cleans up in the park. It's his front yard.

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

When I moved to London, you could park your motorcycle in the pavement, on the sidewalk. We would stay here and just leave it and go about your business. But now something was sort of encroaching in London. There's cameras everywhere. You can't do anything. You're not allowed to be in a group.

All I saw was bodies on the sidewalk and in the bushes. One man in particular was face down. His legs looked like they were broken, like he had been run over.

All I saw was bodies on the sidewalk and in the bushes.

all indicate that the suspect intentionally and deliberately drove onto the sidewalk with the intended purpose of striking the victims.

The difference between an ant walking down the sidewalk and the International Space Station orbiting the Earth is about four orders of magnitude. I never really timed how fast an ant goes. Then I was thinking about a lot of the intractable contemporary conflicts that plague the world today.

The construction of this sidewalk on a dead-end lane is a complete waste of taxpayers' money.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

There is a place where the sidewalk ends.

Somebody steals from me, I'm gonna say you stole. Not talk to him for spitting on the sidewalk. Understand?

I'd been going though his trash. He knocked me down. I was glad to see him, even though he was banging my head against the sidewalk. Afterwards these bums come over and say, 'Did he get much money?' I say, 'Money'? That was Bob Dylan.

Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.

I love the rain - it washes memories off the sidewalk of life.