quotes from the street » life

the family tree

Rachel Steed — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:32:33 +0000

father #1 : “my kids call me Um”

father #2: “how’s that?”

father #1: “Like, Um, i need some money”

overheard: Valletta, Malta

context: dinner party discussion on how kids talk to their parents

it wasn’t always this way

Rachel Steed — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:23:10 +0000

“i can’t see you darling, but i can tell you’re gorgeous by the sound of your voice”

overheard: Toronto, Canada

context: a blind man to a young woman at a dinner party

perspective

Rachel Steed — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:00:44 +0000

“i’d rather live like a king than be one”

overheard: Saba Island, Caribbean

context: a carribean taxi driver/real estate agent/tour guide to a family on their holiday

a childhood right of passage

Rachel Steed — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:00:39 +0000

little boy “dad, where’s my goldfish?!”

father “i’m afraid it died hunny”

little boy “oh, but mum’s goldfish is still alive – shall we kill it?”

overheard: London, UK

context: conversation between father and son

if only the world made more like you

Rachel Steed — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:00:09 +0000

“i’m literally just throwing up passion”

overheard: London, UK

context: a woman describing how she must come across when telling people of her initiative to build an orphanage in uganda

and so the journey begins …

Rachel Steed — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:50 +0000

bloke and asking me if he was a daddy, and asked me if I was a daddy, and I said yes, whose daddy am I, and he said mine, then thought about it and said ‘I don’t know whose daddy I’m going to be’.

little boy points to a man on the street and asks his father: ”is he a daddy?”

father: “i’m not sure jared”

little boy: “are you a daddy?”

father: “yes, jared you know that – whose daddy am i?”

little boy: “mine!”

pauses for thought

little boy: “i don’t know whose daddy i’m going to be”

overheard: Manchester, UK

context: a four year old boy to his father as he wondered about the ‘big stuff’ out loud

american cloan(ialism)

Rachel Steed — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:00:14 +0000

“and from that was born a lot of existential desperation”

overheard: london, uk

context: two englishman discussing the emergence of suburban life in america

liberally adapting the medium here

Rachel Steed — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:00:04 +0000

“eyes still mysterious, the rest, horribly too clear”

overheard: interview with artist Maggi Hambling, London

context: on aging and what she sees when she looks in the mirror

chacun à son goût

Rachel Steed — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:00:28 +0000

“there is always a good reason to cry”

overheard: paris, france (source: Jerome Hadey)

context: watching a woman brought to tears by a fashion show

same same but different

Rachel Steed — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:55:21 +0000

“the more similar people are, the more vigorously they defend their differences”

overheard: mayfair, london

context: two friends arguing about why they argue so much