Crowded Streets Quotes:

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Country, Boys, Noise, Crowded, Crowded Streets

Life is like walking along a crowded street--there always seem to be fewer obstacles to getting along on the opposite pavement--and yet, if one crosses over, matters are rarely mended.

- Thomas Huxley

topic: Life, Opposites, Matter, Getting Along, Crowded Streets

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

- Princess Diana

topic: Wedding, Three, Crowded Streets

There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, our pace would slacken, We would step more oft with care, Lest our careless feet be treading To the earth some jewel rare.

- Rudyard Kipling

topic: Lying, Knowledge, Jewels, Crowded, Gems

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Character, Personality, Triumph, Clamor, Clamour

I have always loved to sit in ferry and railroad stations and watch the people, to walk on crowded streets, just walk along among the people, and see their faces, to be among people on street cars and trains and boats.

- Ella Reeve Bloor

source: Ella Reeve Bloor (1940). “We are Many: An Autobiography by Ella Reeve Bloor”, New York : International Publishers

topic: People, Car, Watches, Ferry, Crowded Streets

Vimes stalked gloomily through the crowded streets, feeling like the only pickled onion in a fruit salad.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.92, Random House

topic: Fruit Salad, Feelings, Onions, Crowded Streets

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets, But often, in the din of strife, There rises an unspeakable desire After the knowledge of our buried life; A thirst to spend our fire and restless force In tracking out our true, original course; A longing to inquire Into the mystery of this heart which beats So wild, so deep in us—to know Whence our lives come and where they go.

- Matthew Arnold

source: Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.24, Courier Corporation

topic: Heart, Fire, Desire, Crowded Streets

It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they would wander to her; they would bring back the scene,- not of his repulse and rejection the day before but the looks, the actions of the day before that. He went along the crowded streets mechanically, winding in and out among the people, but never seeing them, -almost sick with longing for that one half-hour-that one brief space of time when she clung to him, and her heart beat against his-to come once again.

- Elizabeth Gaskell

source: Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1528, BookCaps Study Guides

topic: Heart, Space, People, Crowded Streets, Him And Her

Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

- Dalton Trumbo

source: Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

topic: Morning, War, Coffee, Trough, Vietnam War

I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places of the crowded street, to solace myself with sounds which I was not obliged to follow and get rid of the distracting torment of endless, fruitless, barren attention!

- Charles Lamb

topic: Music, Pain, Italian, Crowded, Crowded Streets