Quotes About Pedestrians

#1. Military parades roll down the Champs-Elysees, but pedestrians stroll up ["East Meets West on the Champs-Elysees," Metropolis, March 2006, p73]

Veronique Vienne

#2. Halfway through the afternoon the sun appeared from behind the blanket of clouds left by the storm. The shining streets were transformed into mirrors, on which pedestrians walked, reflecting the amber of the sky.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#3. It was bad enough to be swallowed up by the intrinsic anger of New York City traffic and its seemingly mad competition between cars, cabs, the ubiquitous delivery trucks, the kamikaze bike messengers and the always-in-a-damn hurry pedestrians.

Nora Roberts

#4. Pedestrians never seem to realize that they are a threat to the safety of cars.

Thomas Sowell

#5. In India, there are real consequences to inattention; drivers who jeopardize pedestrians can be lynched on the spot.

Bharati Mukherjee

#6. Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile 'cigarette and sweets' stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road turned local byway.

Jennifer S. Alderson

#7. Doc went automotively groping in this weirdness east on Olympic, trying not to flinch at what came popping up out of the gloom in the way of city buses and pedestrians in altered states of consciousness.

Thomas Pynchon

#8. There are two kinds of pedestrians ... the quick and the dead.

Thomas Dewar

#9. Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

Alex Steffen

#10. The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

Mark Twain

#11. God made us walking animals - pedestrians. As a fish needs to swim, a bird to fly, a deer to run, we need to walk, not in order to survive, but to be happy.

Enrique Penalosa

#12. Traffic growled and snarled, rising at times to a machine-gun rata-tat-tat, while pedestrians were scuttling about with that desperate ratlike urgency characteristic of all big American cities, but which reaches its ultimate in New York.

Fritz Leiber

#13. Drivers tend to look for other drivers, rather than for pedestrians or cyclists.

Robert James Thomson

#14. It's going to look pretty good, then, isn't it," said War testily, "the One Horseman and Three Pedestrians of the Apocalypse.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.

Lewis Mumford

#16. It was chilly weather. Through the window the rays of the sun touched my feet, and the slight warmth was very welcome. It was almost eight o'clock, and the early pedestrians were returning home with their heads covered.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. In Minneapolis, the overhead sky walks protect pedestrians from the winter cold and snow.

Bill Dedman

#18. You know what we call pedestrians in Morganville? Mobile bloodbanks.

Rachel Caine

#19. Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bill Bryson

#20. You can make the assumption that most human drivers are not out to kill pedestrians. Well, maybe in some parts of Boston they are. But with a person at the wheel who you can see, you behave accordingly. With the robotic car, how do you know what assumption to make?

Rodney Brooks

#21. I'd rather any kind of business on the ground floor than the utter lack of respect for pedestrians with which buildings are put up in this city today. . . . Nobody cares any more about pedestrian identity.

Claudia Pineiro

#22. She described to us six lanes' worth of unadulterated fear, populated exclusively by motorists whose driving education had been paid for by the blood of pedestrians.

Jeff Deck

#23. Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.

A.C. Grayling

#24. That hedge provides almost complete privacy from cars and pedestrians, and I would bet he and his wife do it more than the national average.

Cassandra Danz

#25. Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying
'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.'

Ellen DeGeneres

#26. Here in Prague they say that although the traffic police are communists the drivers are fascists, which would be all right if it were not that the pedestrians are anarchists.

Len Deighton

#27. She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if she might look back. But of course she didn't. He knew she wouldn't. She wasn't the looking-back kind.

Robert Harris

#28. Ah ... so many pedestrians, so little time ...

Robin Williams

#29. Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?

Lawren Harris

#30. The argument that women who become pregnant have in some sense consented to the pregnancy belies realityand others who are the inevitable losers in the contraceptive lottery no more 'consent' to pregnancy than pedestrians 'consent' to being struck by drunk drivers.'

Dawn Johnsen

#31. There were a few nighttime pedestrians on the block, but they continued on their way, dutifully ignoring the zombie vomiting blood out of the back of my car. Good old New Yorkers. They really couldn't care less.

Nicholas Kaufmann

#32. When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

Eliza Coupe

#33. Cyclists. I really hate them. I wish they would not be so self-righteous and realise they are a danger to pedestrians. I wish cyclists would not vindictively snap off wing mirrors on cars when they were trying to cross in front of the car at a danger to motorists and pedestrians.

A.S. Byatt

#34. Every scandal has its road kill: the pedestrians who stumble into the headlights of the oncoming 18-wheeler.

Bill Dedman

#35. The driver seems to have no regard for traffic lights, or other cars, or pedestrians, or roads, or even life itself.

Karina Halle

#36. A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

Brendan Behan

#37. Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well.

John Sculley

#38. Pedestrian accessibility is the key.

Kim Delaney

#39. There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

Jane Jacobs

#40. A collison is what happens when two motorists go after the same pedestrian.

Bob Newhart