Quotes about passerby (6 Quotes)


    Once the scent caught me on the street in Greenwich Village. I stopped in my tracks and looked around. Where was it coming from? A shop? The trees? A passerby? I could not tell. I only knew the smell made me cry. I stood on the sidewalk in Greenwich Village as people brushed by, and felt suddenly young and terribly open, as if I were waiting for something. I live in an ocean of smell, and the ocean is my mother.

    If you are a black man in America and get stopped by the police, make sure you have a video camera. Don't rely on some passerby to film the beating. Rodney King was just lucky.


    If I pushed the poor person out onto the street and his wife or passerby called 911, there would be no charge, ... This is a punishment fine, not for services rendered.

    You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses because it is she that I have watered.


    The land now desolate will be tilled, instead of lying waste for every passerby to see. Everyone will say that this land which was waste has now become like a Garden of Eden.



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