“A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of gelded bulls - whereas a city of anarchy is a city of promise.” LawCitiesStreetsFieldsFineInternetPromiseCleanArchitectureAnarchyClassroomFree SpeechBullsObedientCleanlinessTranquil Author:Mark Helprin
“In Middle America men are awakening. Like awkward and untrained boys we begin to turn toward maturity and with our awakening we hunger for song. But in our towns and fields there are few memory haunted places. Here we stand in roaring city streets, on steaming coal heaps, in the shadow of factories from which come only the grinding roar of machines. We do not sing but mutter in the darkness. Our lips are cracked with dust and with the heat of furnaces. We but mutter and feel our way toward the promise of song.” MenWayFeelsAmericaSongTurnsMemoriesCitiesBoysDarknessStreetsMiddleFieldsPromiseShadowMachinesTownsLipsHungerAwakeningDustMaturityHeatFactoriesAwkwardCoalCrackedRoaringFurnacesOur TownCity StreetsMiddle America Author:Sherwood Anderson
“We must uphold the promise of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Carter, and Clinton and never allow the President and his Republican friends to threaten Social Security by putting it on the Wall Street trading block.” SocialPresidentStreetsSecurityWallPromiseRepublicanClintonBlockTradingSocial SecurityJohnsonCarterTruman Author:John F. Kerry
“Beware of the thief on the street that's after your purse. But also beware of the thief in your mind that's after your promise.” MindStreetsPromiseThievesPurses Author:Jim Rohn
“We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.” SocialStepsStreetsSecurityWallPromiseResponsibleSocial Security Author:Barack Obama
“The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.” WayShouldYearsLittlesHas BeensNightBlackWaterDarknessAirTreeSkyStreetsFinePromiseMoonFairsShould HaveWoodsLampsShould Have BeenFrostCrispsPuddlesFruitionMain Street Book:Winesburg, Ohio Source: Winesburg, Ohio
“I don't know who had the training of you," he continued doggedly, "but your morals are shocking. You spent a night in my bed, remember, after a night in a bawdy house. You go about collecting street urchins and letting inebriated vagabonds kiss you, and then you get into brawls in pawnshops. You are probably past all redemption, but I'm going to reform you anyhow. If you behave yourself, perhaps I'll let you reform me on occasion, but I make no promises.” IfsKnowsPastRememberNightHouseMoralStreetsPromiseBedKissingTrainingRedemptionReformOccasionsBehaveShockingCollectingVagabonds Author:Loretta Chase
“It's Will who ought to be sorry." Jem's eyes darkened. "We shall throw him out onto the streets," he proclaimed. "I promise you he'll be gone by morning." Tessa started and sat upright. "Oh - no, you can't mean that -" He grinned. "Of course I don't. But you felt better for a moment there, didn't you?" "It was like a beautiful dream," Tessa said gravely.” MeanSaidMomentsDreamEyeBeautifulCoursesFeltMorningGoneStreetsOughtPromiseSorrySatI PromiseJemBeautiful Dreams Book:Clockwork Angel Source: Clockwork Angel
“You should have taken me with you," I whisper to him. Then I lean my head against his and begin to cry. In my mind, I make a silent promise to my brother's killer. I will hunt you down. I will scour the streets of Los Angeles for you. Search every street in the Republic if I have to. I will trick you and deceive you, lie, cheat and steal to find you, tempt you out of your hiding place, and chase you until you have nowhere else to run. I make you this promise: your life is mine.” IfsShouldMindRunningLife IsLyingTakenStreetsCryMinesBrotherPromiseShould HaveSilentTricksStealingMy BrotherLos AngelesRepublicHidingKillersDeceivingCheatHuntsHiding Place Book:Legend Source: Legend
“Time is so strange and life is twice as strange. You must promise me not to live to be too old, William. It if is at all convenient, die before you're fifty. It my take a bit of doing. But I advise this is simply because there is no telling when another Helen Loomis might be born. It would be dreadful, wouldn't it, if you lived on to be very very old and some afternoon in 1999 walked down Main street and saw me standing there, aged twenty-one, and the whole thing out of balance again?” IfsWholeMightWould BeLife IsDiesBitsBornSawsStreetsStrangeBalancePromiseStandingTwentiesFiftyAfternoonAdviseConvenientTwenty OneStanding ThereHelenMain StreetPromise Me Author:Ray Bradbury