Wide Streets

Famous quotes containing the words wide and/or streets:

    “Yet therein now doth lodge a noble peer,
    Great England’s glory and the world’s wide wonder,
    Whose dreadful name late through all Spain did thunder,”
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    “I am afraid if there is anything to be afraid of. A precipice cannot hurt you. Lions and tigers can. The streets of New York I consider more dangerous than the Matterhorn to a thoroughly competent and careful climber.”
    —Annie Smith Peck (1850–1935)