Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced by the bag lady and the welfare mother. Women have even taken over Skid Row.
Quotes about bowery (9 Quotes)
Welcome, ye shades ye bowery Thickets hail Ye lofty Pines ye venerable Oaks Ye Ashes wild, resounding oer the steep Delicious is your shelter to the soul.
For my part, I believe that the vain, glorious and the violent will not inherit the earth.... In pursuance of that faith my friends and I take the hands of the dying in our hands. And some of us travel to the Pentagon, and others live in the Bowery and serve there, and others speak unpopularly and plainly of the fate of the unborn and of convicted criminals. It is all one.
I am going a long way With these thou sestif indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt) To the island-valley of Avilion, Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly but it lies Deep-meadow'd, happy, fair with orchard lawns And bowery hollows crown'd with summer sea, Where I will heal me of my grievous wound.
He told me to put on a suit and go downtown to the old Bowery Bank - because it has neo-Roman architecture - where they'd like to interview me on tape about Rome.
You scour the Bowery, ransack the Bronx, Through funeral parlors and honky-tonks. From river to river you comb the town; For a place to lay your family down.
Then I moved down to the Bowery to this building where Debbie Harry lived. It was there that I started combining some clothes for her and continued doing the art and photography.
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
Before that I had one day's work in The Bowery Boys Go To Africa. I played Tarzan. The Bowery Boys were about to take Jane back to civilization, and I discouraged them from doing that.