Best Avenue Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I don't view the web as any other secondary medium to television or film - I just think it's another avenue.”

“Working with Tesco has been such an interesting avenue to go down that I'm keen to find other avenues to release music.”

“Passyunk Productions is our film & tv production company. The name comes from a street in Philly, Passyunk Avenue, where the concept of The Roots was born, as Ahmir and I started out busking on the corner of 5th & Passyunk back in the early '90s.”

“My family moved to York, Pa., when I was eight. As a kid I spent virtually all of my free time at Memorial Park, which was just down the street from my house on Springdale Avenue in our blue-collar neighborhood.”

“Basketball gave me an avenue to live my dream, and I just want to help other kids live their dreams through me.”

“I didn't really have a religious upbringing in my life, which was tough at times because I was searching for some kind of meaning, but it also gave me an avenue to find my own sense of connection.”

“I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.”

“My parents were like, 'Oh my God,' when I said I was going into fashion - they pictured me with a rolling rack on Seventh Avenue.”

“Inspired by London's Savile Row, I wanted to bring an American curated experience for men to Madison Avenue... a place where they cannot only shop but explore.”

“I love boliche, roasted pig, and black beans and rice. When I need a quick fix, I head to Cafe Cortadito on Avenue B and 3rd here in New York City.”

“I really do think that in life, people just want to talk about their problems. In particular, Irish people and English people don't really have an avenue to do that.”

“We want to give kids... an avenue to do what it is they want to do in life.”

“Art does not exist for itself; it is but an avenue through and by which humanity expresses itself.”

“There was a junk store in Nashville on 8th Avenue, where I bought Patsy Cline's train case for $75.”

“I belong to the Flatbush Avenue Fishing Club.”

“I'm a super creative person and have always loved drawing and painting since I was super young, but makeup was a new avenue for me.”

“With music, you can put sophisticated thoughts in a child's head - it gives you a whole new avenue to express ideas.”

“We know that trade doesn't just help Wall Street or even just Main Street; it also helps businesses on the side streets, such as Elston Avenue in my home district.”

“Show-wise, I love 'Little Shop' and 'Big River', 'Avenue Q,' and 'Spring Awakening'.”

“I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-story house on Cruger Avenue in the Bronx, and every night at 9:30, I sat by my little radio in our kitchen and listened to a half hour of Bing's records regularly spilling out over WNEW.”

“Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.”

“When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.”

“I can still remember the first time I heard a Beatles song. It was the fall of 1964, my second year in an American school after my family moved back from overseas, and I was standing on the corner of 64th street and First Avenue with my friend Larry Campbell.”

“For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.”

“In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!”

“It's odd, because I used to see pictures, on telly or wherever, of what I now know to be Shaftesbury Avenue and I used to wonder what that amazing street with all the lights was. Well, now I know. I think when you get a wee taste of something, it maybe isn't what you thought it was.”

“My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.”

“I don't look at my work as an avenue for generating more work. For me, my work itself is sufficient.”

“I'm very impressed by St. Patrick's. Another deity to me is definitely Saks Fifth Avenue. Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.”

“I had seen 'Avenue Q' off-Broadway back in 2003 and fell in love with it. I just thought it was the smartest, funniest thing I'd seen in a long time.”

“Students raised on Park Avenue are born into family situations in which overachieving merely maintains the status quo, and therefore the market is primed for anyone offering services that provide an edge on local peers.”

“If one drag queen penetrates the mainstream and opens up a new avenue for us to take with our careers, that means all of us can potentially do that.”

“When we wrote 'Avenue Q,' we worked hard to create something that could be funny and satirical but also had some surprise moments of heart, moments when the music itself could become a central player and create something sweet and moving.”

“My look was based on the Madison Avenue guy who's just lost his job. Ivy League suit a bit scuzzed up, an outgrown layer cut and five o'clock shadow.”

“The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.”

“People's eyes are so drawn to Instagram and TikTok; there's a world in which there's a better avenue to enter the industry because people take those people so much more seriously.”

“I was walking down First Avenue, heading to CVS. And two police cars pulled over and stopped, and rolled down the window and one of them asked, 'Are you Isaac Wright?' When I said yes, they immediately got out and asked me to take pictures with them in front of the police car.”

“Official boundaries are often hard to see. If you head north on Woodward Avenue, away from downtown Detroit, you wouldn't know exactly when you left the city and crossed over into Oakland County - except for a small sign that tells you.”

“My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California.”

“Administrations had come and gone in Pennsylvania Avenue, but many old entertaining traditions had survived - thru habit and not thru merit.”

“I was brought up at 3525 Decatur Avenue, in the north Bronx, right next to Woodlawn Cemetery.”

“Nan Kempner wore one of the first Saint Laurent trouser suits to one of those fancy Madison Avenue restaurants and was denied access. She famously took off her pants and walked in wearing only the jacket. And it was that kind of revolution that was echoed in fashion and in life.”

“Whatever avenue I feel like I can make a difference in, I'd love to do.”

“Comedy does offer an avenue to television and film careers for untelegenic people that great drama does not.”

“If I'm walking very, very fast down Madison Avenue in the middle of the day, I'll say I'm stopped 10 times.”

“I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff.”

“But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression.”

“You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner.”

“I literally went straight to New York City from Iraq, which was bizarre and complicated. I was walking down Madison Avenue, and it was spring, and people were smartly dressed, and it was so strange because there was no sense that we were at war. It was something to grapple with.”

“I've pursued every avenue open to me ever, so I don't really understand the idea that I walked away from opportunities.”

“Copywriters on Madison Avenue constantly grapple with the question of where their work sits on the totem pole of 'real' writing.”

“I have a very close relationship with Saks Fifth Avenue and have been a loyal customer for over 20 years.”

“I don't think there is a clear-cut avenue for what I do, and I am OK with that. I am just a lover of music.”

“I take his talent and his passion with me - to the stage of the Opry, to the podium at the CMA Awards, to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, into my own living room. I am the realization of my grandfather's dream. I am a player.”

“When they say 'jazz,' I'm thinking of a word called 'the creative process.' It intersects every vein and tributary, avenue, path, that everyone's living. It crosses through there, but it's been contained.”

“What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?”

“Whether it means having a show, or a movie, or just being on a stage, I need an avenue to say what I have to say.”

“I moved to New York on October 21, 2004, and it was the day that the Chelsea Grill, a restaurant in Hell's Kitchen on 9th Avenue between 46th and 47th Street, opened. I had never waited a table in my life, but I walked in and lied to the manager in a very J. Pierrepont Finch way.”

“Believe it or not, I kind of went into professional wrestling so I could get an avenue into acting.”

“I take football as an avenue to different opportunities. Football is not using me; I'm using football.”

“I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.”

“Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going to the hosiery mills to get a prototype made to calling Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. I had to position myself to get five minutes in the door with buyers.”

“I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.”

“First Avenue is one of my favorite places to play. All along, they've treated me with respect.”

“I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.”

“The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.”

“On an average, any short film will cost at least Rs. 60,000. Apart from film festivals, where is the avenue to get that money back?”

“It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.”

“After 'Urinetown,' 'Avenue Q' and now 'Mormon,' is there an envelope remaining to be pushed?”

“I intentionally aided them by being there and blocking an avenue of escape for the victims.”

“I go by the name of Polo G and I'm from the near North Side of Chicago, the 1300 block of Hudson Avenue.”

“In my home city of Vancouver, most people put out their recycling boxes. The organic grocery and cafe on Fourth Avenue is flourishing. Bikes are popular, and there are a few gas-electric hybrid cars gliding around. But as this new century begins, my twentysomething generation is becoming increasingly disconnected from the natural world.”

“I love walking down Clinton Hill's Greene Avenue. It's very neighborhoody.”

“I've always loved music and felt connected to it, but was too afraid to explore that avenue.”

“The great thing about 'Total Divas' is that it gives people who don't watch wrestling an avenue to see how empowering we women are.”

“If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.”

“As you get older, subconsciously you start thinking about mortality and protecting your offspring. It opens up a whole new avenue of life experiences.”

“Personally, my favorite character onscreen was in the film '15 Park Avenue' where I played a schizophrenic.”

“Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses.”

“On Gates Avenue, there's an amazing Italian restaurant: Locanda Vini e Olii. It's in an old pharmacy - the front of it still has the pharmacy's name on it - and they have all these little tchotchkes and knickknacks and things behind glass. Whenever my parents come to Brooklyn, I take them there.”

“I made a commitment and a promise to Ms. McSpadden, Michael Brown's mother, that I will pursue justice with the family at every avenue, be it on the federal level or at the state level.”

“Social media provides an avenue to build relationships with media outlets and have an ongoing relationship with reporters.”

“It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.”

“My first retailer was Saks Fifth Avenue. I didn't even know how to ship a box to a retailer. Like, how do you pack it? How do you send it to make sure it gets on the floor? You figure it out as you go along.”

“Everything is groomed in Palm Beach...the lawns, the streets, and the shops are all pristine, particularly those on world-famous Worth Avenue, one of the most fabulous shopping streets in the universe, with outposts of Gucci, Chanel, Valentino, and Louis Vuitton enticing residents and visitors.”

“I love 'Ocean Avenue' by Yellowcard. That's always been one of my favorites.”

“Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.”

“Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.”

“I was a Versace perfume girl at Saks Fifth Avenue, and Rihanna actually came up to the counter and asked for something. And she wouldn't even take her sunglasses off! She was so mean to me. Not mean, but, like, guarded. I don't blame her, though.”

“I have a center at 412 West Chicago Avenue. It's called the Jesse White Community Center and Fieldhouse. It's a state-of-the-art gymnastics facility, game room, weight room, computer lab.”

“I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area.”

“If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store to buy gummy bears.”

“It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there.”

“I love Monopoly. You know why? When I play Monopoly with you, I'm going to buy everything from Baltic Avenue to Marvin Gardens. If you get to my side of the board, you'd better roll boxcars, or you're going to pay rent.”

“I have known Aparna Sen for many years. We worked together in her film '15 Park Avenue' which was in English.”

“The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.”

“We all grew up in Bronxville, I went to Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart - in the old location on Convent Avenue - and I've lived here since 1962. I couldn't feel more like a New Yorker.”

“The day will come - and it is not far off - when the legacy of Lincoln will finally be fulfilled at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, when a black man or woman will sit in the Oval Office. When that day comes, the most remarkable thing about it will be how naturally it occurs.”

“It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.”

“Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.”