A Quote by Roseanne Barr

My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.

Roseanne Barr

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Roseanne Barr
American - Actress
Born: November 3, 1952

In 1900, as the immigrants come down the gangplank into Jersey City, they expect the streets to be paved with gold, and they were only paved with gold in Frank Baum's 'The Wizard of Oz,' of course.

David Levering Lewis

Living in Pakistan, you didn't have a sense of how huge and varied America was geographically. I had visited once. I thought of it as this crazy, happy, exciting place where everybody's rich, and there's stuff everywhere. Compared to Pakistan, it's not untrue. Compared to Pakistan, the streets are paved with gold.

Kumail Nanjiani

Romanians have a saying, 'Not every dog has a bagel on its tail.' It means that not all streets are paved with gold. When I began my career, I just wanted to do cartwheels.

Nadia Comaneci

I don't know, but I've been told, the streets of hell are paved with gold.

Alice Cooper

If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

Brigham Young

The streets of Vienna are paved with culture, the streets of other cities with asphalt.

Karl Kraus

People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.

Desmond Tutu

The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.

Jon Gordon

The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

Steve Novick

You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved.

Bob Marley

The streets of hell are paved with good intentions.

Shania Twain

Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn.

Dorothy Parker

Even on the poorest streets people could be heard laughing. Some of these streets were completely dark, like black holes, and the laughter that came from who knows where was the only sign, the only beacon that kept residents and strangers from getting lost.

Roberto Bolano

L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.

Steve Erickson

My favorite thing about my grandmother is her lust for life and how much she has shown me about living every day to the fullest. To say my grandmother has paved the way for me and so many women out there like me is an understatement.

Meghan McCain

My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.

Steven Morrissey

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