And he who gives a child a treat Makes joy-bells ring in Heaven's street, And he who gives a child a home Builds palaces in Kingdom come, And she who gives a baby birth Brings Saviour Christ again to Earth.

-Masefield,John Edward
  'The Everlasting Mercy'.

In the early morning the mill girls clumping down the cobbled street, all in clogs, making a curiously formidable sound, like an army hurrying into battle. I suppose this is the typical sound of Lancashire.

-Orwell, George pseudonym of  Eric Arthur Blair
  Diary entry,18 Feb. He used this as material for his book The Road to Wigan Pier (1937).

Up, and by coach to Sir Ph.Warwickes, the street being full of footballs, it being a great frost.

-Pepys, Samuel
  Diary entry, 3 Jan. Frost restricted the amount of horse traffic in the streets of London, making football a possibility.

   When I make a portrait,I cannot limit it tothe lines of the head, for that head belongs toa body, it exists ina setting which influences it, it is part of a totality that I cannot suppress. The impression you produce upon me is not thesame if I catchsight of youalone ina gardenor if Isee you in the midst of a group of other people, in a living room or on the street.

-Rosso, Medardo
Quoted in Edmond Claris De l'impressionisme en sculpture, 'Medardo Rosso' (1902).

I pulled to the side of the street and got out my book of road maps.But to find where you are going, you must know where you are, and I didn't.

-Steinbeck,John Ernest
  TravelsWith Charley In Search of America.

  In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer, quite the other way, I have to go to bed by day. I have to go to bed and see The birds still hopping on the tree, Or hear the grown-up people's feet Still going past me in the street.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.1,'Bed in Summer', stanzas1^2.

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; Foreverynight attea-timeand before youtakeyourseat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

-Stevenson, Robert Louis
  A Child's Garden ofVerses, no.30,'The Lamplighter', stanza1.

   When Jesus came to Birmingham they simply passed Him by, They never hurt a hair of him, they only let Him die. For menhadgrownmoretenderandthey wouldnot give Him pain, Theyonlyjust passeddownthestreet, and left Himinthe rain.

-'Woodbine Willie'
Peace Rhymes of a Padre,'Indifference'.

Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 7, l.1^4.

And ghastly through the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 7, l.11^12.

There, where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of the central sea.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto123, l.3^4.

The best time to listen to a politician is when he is on a street corner, in the rain, late at night, when he's exhausted. Then he doesn't lie.

-White,Theodore H(arold)
  In the NewYorkTimes, 5 Jan.

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by deathö Percivalöothers through sheer inability to cross the street.

-Woolf, (Adeline) Virginia ne¤  e Stephen
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