Pavement quotes
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Should I give up or should I just keep chasing pavement, even if it leads nowhere?
-- Adele -
There can be no doubt that a society rooted in the soil is more stable than one rooted in pavements.
-- Aldo Leopold -
Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
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.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
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Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.
-- Bob Goff -
The language we're exchanging, the fillings in our teeth, the pavement on the road outside, everywhere you look, for better or for worse, you're going to see evidence that accepting reality is not a human's tendency, and not what we're good at, and not, in my speculation, what God or Natural Selection hired us to do. We've been hired, by this universe, to dream, to aspire, to make things that weren't real real - and because that involves a lot of failure, we're damn good at doing that, too.
-- Dan Harmon -
When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.
-- Evel Knievel -
She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.
-- Francine Pascal -
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Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.
-- George Gissing -
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
-- Gilbert Ryle -
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.
-- Hugh Bonneville -
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.
-- Jeanne DuPrau -
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All I've done is work... I arrived in Los Angeles in my early 20s and I've been pounding the pavement ever since.
-- Jeremy Piven -
Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.
-- Josie Maran -
I started noticing how stained the pavements are in London. The pavements in Beverly Hills aren't used; in London, they're used for everything. It doesn't matter how much they're cleaned, they still reflect light
-- Julie Christie -
If you cannot convince a Fascist, acquaint his head with the pavement.
-- Leon Trotsky -
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I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.
-- Maggie Grace -
On pavements and the bark of trees I have found whole worlds.
-- Mark Tobey -
I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.
-- Mary Roberts Rinehart -
Hip-hop is about the brilliance of pavement poetry.
-- Michael Eric Dyson -
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Leaves covered pavement like soggy cereal.
-- Patricia Cornwell -
I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
-- Patrick Carney -
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.
-- S. Bear Bergman -
Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.
-- T. S. Eliot -
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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.
-- Virginia Woolf -
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.
-- Vladimir Mayakovsky -
The soil under the grass is dreaming of a young forest, and under the pavement the soil is dreaming of grass.
-- Wendell Berry -
Under the pavement the dirt is dreaming of grass.
-- Wendell Berry -
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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.
-- Benton MacKaye
