Quotes About The Other Side Of The Tracks

#1. Growing up I always felt like I was living on the other side of the tracks. I knew the people on the other side had more resources, more money, happier families.

Howard Schultz

#2. There was no way to kiss her like a good boy. You could start out that way, but you always ended up on the other side of the tracks. If you hated her, it didn't make any difference; it worked just the same.

Charles Williams

#3. There's always a side of a woman that likes a man from the other side of the tracks.

Laura Dern

#4. I don't believe in typecasting. Just because all my characters may come from the other side of the tracks doesn't mean they are all the same. You don't stereotype people and generalize people, everyone's different.

Michael K. Williams

#5. I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

Matt De La Pena

#6. I'm not actually posh; I'm really rough and from the wrong side of the tracks. I grew up in Putney, which is pretty rough.

Jack Whitehall

#7. I come from a background where you don't really talk about yourself much.

Michael Keaton

#8. I don't see the necessity to be friends with anyone you've dated, but definitely out of respect of the time, you have to be kind of respectful, and that's what I try to do.

Joel Madden

#9. I always feel like I am on the dark side of the tracks. I feel I'm no good. I can't read.

Ozzy Osbourne

#10. I grew up on the rough side of the tracks. If you looked like you were soft, you would be fodder for the wolves. I came up in my neighbourhood like, 'I'm just gonna be me,' and all the thugs just said, 'It's OK, he's special.' They knew I had the talent with the rhymes, so they kept me around.

Q-Tip

#11. It doesn't matter which side of the tracks your from, the train still rolls the same.

Robert M. Hensel

#12. I have not failed; I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Edison
I like this attitude ...

Davee Jones

#13. I need a lot of support ... Life is really hard, and I don't see some active benevolent force out there. I see it as basically a really cool survival game. You get on the right side of the tracks, and you now are actually working with what some people would call magic.

Robert Downey Jr.

#14. I'm the granddaddy of this side. I'm the oldest person playing in the team, so I've got a mentoring role. I've been around the tracks and achieved a few things. I try to make sure that the younger players reach their full potential, and stay on the right track.

Filo Tiatia

#15. There are three things in speech that ought to be considered before some things are spoken
the manner, the place and the time.

Robert Southey

#16. Caleb tossed him an explosive and Japhet lunged to catch it before it hit the ground. He glared but Caleb didn't notice. Instead, he started to whistle I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier as he made his way down the left side of the tracks, laying bombs at intervals.

Jack Lewis Baillot

#17. No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Lydia Rodriguez-Clement

#18. Some people I see - people who do more or less have prerecorded tracks - their persona is such that the visual side of just them is way more important and multi-dimensional. Me, I'm boring to look at.

Andrew Wyatt

#19. 'The Notebook' gets me every time. It's a great love story. Boy from the wrong side of the tracks. They get on each other's nerves, but they can't live without each other. It almost makes me shed a tear.

Michael Strahan

#20. Keep yourself focused with no side tracks be kind and compassionate.

Kishore Bansal

#21. I am regarded as a usurper, as an imposter and dilettante, because I do technically come from the wrong side of the tracks in musical terms.

Rufus Wainwright

#22. A player's ability to rebound is inversely proportional to the distance between where he was born and the nearest railroad tracks. The greater distance you live from the poor side of the railroad tracks, the less likely that you will be a good rebounder.

Pete Carril

#23. One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I might be seen as wanting leadership-wise, was to be someone I was not.

Kevin Allen

#24. Punctuality is the politeness of kings.

Louis XVIII

#25. Given a little wine, you will find folks are the same no matter what side of the railroad tracks they came from.

Nancy B. Brewer

#26. Always I am speaking English on behalf of fools

Michael Pitre

#27. She was from the wrong side of the tracks no matter how you gerrymandered the town.

James Lileks

#28. I started here in Australia, playing a lot of roles but never the lead guy in shows here. I always tended to play the rougher guy, the criminal who gets caught or shot by the cops. Or the boyfriend from the wrong side of the tracks.

Sullivan Stapleton

#29. A TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the boy had known enough to steal the whole railroad he would be heralded as a Napoleon of finance.

Mother Jones

#30. A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

Stephen King

#31. People get the impression that we approach football without method: that we're a bunch of skilled individualists. This just isn't so. I'm all for individuality. But I personally go through every tactical plan before every match.

Matt Busby

#32. I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

Faye Dunaway

#33. I fell for a boy from the wrong side of the tracks.

Ellen Hopkins

#34. When your heart is open and soft, it isn't actually vulnerable: it can withstand anything.

John De Ruiter

#35. In the end these things matter most: How well did you love? How fully did you live? How deeply did you let go?

Gautama Buddha

#36. I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

Eddie Vedder

#37. You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.

Andrew McMahon