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When you're ... stepping over a guy on the sidewalk ... does it ever occur to you to think, 'Wow. Maybe our system doesn't work?' — Bill Hicks

Eastlake High makes Buffy's hellmouth look like a crack in the sidewalk. — Rachel Vincent

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

Before modern medicine, would pussies just generally rot up inside you and fall out of you like spoiled oysters on the sidewalk? — Doug Stanhope

M. and I ground against each other as if we were ill-fitting jigsaw pieces determined to jam together, even though one showed sidewalk, the other sky. — Dexter Palmer

I like the rain. It washes memories off the sidewalk of life. — Woody Allen

I want to collapse. I want to fall on the sidewalk right them and drag myself to the ivy. — Jay Asher

If you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk. — Lee Child

Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk. — Jack Kerouac

It looked like someone had taken sidewalk chalk and smudged the colors across the sky with their fingers. — R.J. Palacio

Tourists and locals are watching from sidewalk cafes. Non-racers. The emptiness of those lives shocks me. — Tim Krabbe

I despise formal restaurants. I find all of that formality to be very base and vile. I would much rather eat potato chips on the sidewalk. — Werner Herzog

Lowly, unpurposeful, and random as they appear, sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city's wealth of public life must grow. — Jane Jacobs

Cold rain, the sidewalk shining, the shhh of car tires on the wet street. Thinking about the terrible gulf of years between eighteen and fifty. — Emily St. John Mandel

We're all a little broken, on the sidewalk. On the street. In the city. — Corey Ann Haydu

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. — Robert Benchley

I thought how when I got out of the hospital I would never again walk down the sidewalk without giving thanks for being one of those people, — Elizabeth Strout

I felt sorry for myself since my wimpy dom can't catch a snail crossing the sidewalk. — Cherise Sinclair

Every crack in the sidewalk has a story to tell. — Marty Rubin

My heart drips into the cracks on the sidewalk as he leaves. — Amy Kinzer

Life's wildest moment
she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies. — Henry Miller

Through those drooping branches the city sprawled out haphazardly like a drunk on a sidewalk, fallen where he may. — Kevin Powers

One symbol of lack of democracy is to have cars parked on the sidewalk. — Enrique Penalosa

I want to stumble across something on the sidewalk and pretend she dropped it: a flower petal, a scarf. And then I want to set it on fire. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

In Brooklyn, I don't feel that I'm holding up people with briefcases if I catch a stroller wheel in the sidewalk. — Roz Chast

Americans consider the sidewalk an anonymous backstage space, whereas for the French it is the stage itself. — Edmund White

Dived through the rain across the sidewalk, found — Rex Stout

I twirl through the driveway with angelic grace
Till I slip on the sidewalk and fall on my face — Owl City

I am watching parts of me evaporate like sidewalk water. This wet grey, this nighttime dew, gone before morning. — Sarah Kay

The suburban mind cannot comprehend the emergent complexity of a New York sidewalk. — Robin Sloan

People will sooner aid a sick dog lying on the sidewalk than to try to find shelter for a sick person. It's too much to deal with. — Michael Zaslow

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. — Matthew Fox

I'd rather lie bare-assed naked on the sidewalk and be trampled by tourists from South Dakota than be an accountant. — J.D. Robb

Spiritual life is like a moving sidewalk. Whether you go with it or spend your whole life running against it, you're still going to be taken along. — Bernadette Roberts

You could take winos off the sidewalk in front of the drugstore and teach them to be poets in half an hour. — Nell Zink

His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk. — Fannie Flagg

I was on the sidewalk, buffering, wondering if it was okay to follow people in real life. — Olivia Sudjic

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

It was a frightening thing, to see two mentally incompetent sidewalk buskers, with battered folk musicians, who might any moment burst into song. — Bruce Sterling

New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian. — Russell Baker

... we stood there on the quiet sidewalk, stuck between mutiny and mediocrity — David Arnold

On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents. — Patrick Modiano

For those that say I endanger my child: it's more likely that you will fall while walking on the sidewalk than I will while skating with my daughter. — Tony Hawk

I turned off the ignition, locked my car, and stepped onto the sidewalk. — Aleatha Romig

The first day of school, we walked till we reached a stretch of black graffiti on the sidewalk. Somebody named Ken blew dead bears, it said. — Mary Karr

If only we could dance on the sidewalk, look up at the sequined sky, and wish upon the same shooting star. — Sarah Tregay

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk. — Josh Homme

Stood on the sidewalk and looked down the street — Sarah Addison Allen

Thank God for the rain to wash the trash off the sidewalk. — Robert De Niro

Have you had to hide your children's eyes when a tiny, furry streaker crosses the sidewalk in front of you? We — Amazon Reviewers

that - I would remember the view from the hospital window and be glad for the sidewalk I was walking on. To — Elizabeth Strout

I am tired of tripping over these Cracks in the Sidewalk,these cracks in my life. — Lillis Lish

Bookstores are lonely forts, spilling light onto the sidewalk. They civilize their neighborhoods. — John Updike

They kissed in the middle of the sidewalk, letting the crowds of people flow around them like water around an island. — Lawren Leo

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor. — George Will

You growing up to be who you are is like a flower growing through a crack in the sidewalk. — Anne Malcom

She sounded like she really meant it, and I wondered if I actually was standing here on the sidewalk with her, and not still asleep in my room. — Claudette Melanson

... He also said, if you can't acquaint an opponent with tease, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk. He was a man of sound instincts. — Lee Child

sidewalk, waited until the butt cooled, and — Jonathan Kellerman

I always give money to a sidewalk con if the story is a good one, even if I don't believe a word of it. Art deserves to get paid. — Luc Sante

A discarded newspaper skimmed the sidewalk with a sound like the whisperings of a dead lover. — John Connolly

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

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

If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them. — David Ignatow

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life — Jack Kerouac

You're like a flower that grew through a crack in the sidewalk, he told me — Kristen Ashley

My rule was I wouldn't recruit a kid if he had grass in front of his house. That's not my world. My world has a cracked sidewalk. — Al McGuire

Want me to run with you?" he asks, nudging his head toward the sidewalk behind me.
Yes, please.
"No, it's fine. — Colleen Hoover

Ellen was motionless on the sidewalk, — Lois Lowry

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

I promise you a police car on every sidewalk. — Marion Barry

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

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

My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias. — Rodney Dangerfield

My hopes for pie died on the sidewalk. There went my grin. — Carrie Butler

But the truth is, the star was just on the sidewalk. Where people walk right over it. — Ava Dellaira

You're probably on the right track if you feel like a sidewalk worm during a rainstorm. — Larry Page

Oh wow, there's another fly on the wall! Look, there's a new dog sleeping on the sidewalk. Yippee. — R.J. Palacio

The garbage cans and mailboxes on the sidewalk would stay the same, but the people would be just a beautiful blur of motion. — Cecily Von Ziegesar

If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable. — Mitch Hedberg

They were an indistinct blur of pastel and white uniforms, like chalk doodles on a sidewalk in the rain — Gabrielle Zevin

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

Like God's own chocolate, I'd lick her shadow off a hot sidewalk — Christopher Moore

I rarely step on sidewalk cracks. I don't wear a watch. I touch my favorite tree before going on long trips. — Louise Erdrich

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott! — Dolores Huerta

Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. — Dolores Huerta

God, it was hot! Forget about frying an egg on the sidewalk; this kind of heat would fry an egg inside the chicken. — Rachel Caine

Whenever we'd pass a penny on the sidewalk, Matt wouldn't touch it. 'Let someone else have a lucky day,' he'd say. — Sarah Ockler

Gratitude is confidence in life itself. In it, we feel how the same force that pushes grass through cracks in the sidewalk invigorates our own life. — Jack Kornfield

San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. — Dave Barry

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise. — Tom Waits

We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street. — Aimee Bender

A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned. — Ani DiFranco

Early bird gets the worm. But the worm eats the early bird from inside. Slithering out to the sidewalk to melt beneath the sun. — Xavier Cockroachal Damon

I want to lie down in the grass on the sidewalk and I want to run and keep running. — Marlon James

She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk — Susan Crandall

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