Top 90 Avenue Quotes

I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.

It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.

My parents were like, ‘Oh my God,’ when I said I was going into fashion – they pictured me with a rolling rack on Seventh Avenue.

The Veteran’s History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America’s war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

I love walking down Clinton Hill’s Greene Avenue. It’s very neighborhoody.

Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

If I’m walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I’ll say I’m stopped 10 times.

I’ve always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.

Inspired by London’s Savile Row, I wanted to bring an American curated experience for men to Madison Avenue… a place where they cannot only shop but explore.

There’s more musical freedom on Madison Avenue than anywhere else. It’s an Eden for a composer.

It’s odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn’t what you thought it was.

I go by the name of Polo G and I’m from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.

I was walking down First Avenue, heading to CVS. And two police cars pulled over and stopped, and rolled down the window and one of them asked, ‘Are you Isaac Wright?’ When I said yes, they immediately got out and asked me to take pictures with them in front of the police car.

I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I’m going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you’d better roll boxcars, or you’re going to pay rent.

Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept of The Roots was born, as Ahmir and I started out busking on the corner of 5th & Passyunk back in the early ’90s.

I hate dentists. That’s why my tooth fell out. I was in the middle of a root canal and wouldn’t go back, so it just dropped out when I was in the middle of Fifth Avenue.

The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet – before they give you the $6,500 ‘Avenue Q’ puppet.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know ‘That Girl?’ Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it’s Park Avenue! And that’s what I can see out my window.

But there’s still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.

Driving race cars was an avenue for me to learn how to build my own car, and that was my ambition all along.

On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.

Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn’t know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County – except for a small sign that tells you.

I used to roller skate a lot in my youth on Taft Avenue, Manila. That is the reason there is always a skating area in all my SM malls. I want more people to share my love for skating.

My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn’t go down that avenue.

It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren’t far away.

I had seen ‘Avenue Q’ off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it was the smartest, funniest thing I’d seen in a long time.

First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they’ve treated me with respect.

I heard that I was off traveling around the world skiing in Argentina and things like that. I may have had a great life in somebody’s mind, but all I was seeing was 9th Avenue while going from my house down to the studio in New York City.

I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.

I have a center at 412 West Chicago Avenue. It’s called the Jesse White Community Center and Fieldhouse. It’s a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility, game room, weight room, computer lab.

Global sustainability is now the only avenue to future inclusive progress that can deliver the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.

Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.

Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I’m keen to find other avenues to release music.

It’s all about music, because music is basically what’s… been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn’t be.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

I have known Aparna Sen for many years. We worked together in her film ’15 Park Avenue’ which was in English.

Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.

When they say ‘jazz,’ I’m thinking of a word called ‘the creative process.’ It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that everyone’s living. It crosses through there, but it’s been contained.

I think if you show a player an avenue to make a difference, he’s going to bring that same intensity he brings on the field in his community.

With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child’s head – it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.

I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.

On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.

If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.

My look was based on the Madison Avenue guy who’s just lost his job. Ivy League suit a bit scuzzed up, an outgrown layer cut and five o’clock shadow.

Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.

Show-wise, I love ‘Little Shop’ and ‘Big River’, ‘Avenue Q,’ and ‘Spring Awakening’.

I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.

I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.

Engel & Volkers is international, high end and associated with the very best in real estate which is well represented by our new Park Avenue address.

The day will come – and it is not far off – when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.

I would advise anyone seriously interested in acting to study, train, and work as much as possible… You will know soon enough if it’s the right avenue for you.

Our village was built on the Ohio River, and was a halting place on this great national road, then the only avenue of traffic between the South and the North.

My family moved to York, Pa., when I was eight. As a kid I spent virtually all of my free time at Memorial Park, which was just down the street from my house on Springdale Avenue in our blue-collar neighborhood.

There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline’s train case for $75.

I’ve been writing all my life, and playing bass came later on, when I was about 26. What I recognized with poetry and music that I had a different voice – there were things I wanted to express that I could not as an actor or even as a director. It was another avenue of expression that my soul needs.