Airports Quotes - Page 4

• Strengthening local airports in Iowa is important for economic development and improving the quality of life our rural areas and urban communities

  Chuck Grassley

  Iowa, Community, Quality

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• The day that I can land at the airport in Baghdad and ride in an unarmed car down the highway to the Green Zone is the day that I'll start considering withdrawals from Iraq.

  John McCain

  Land, Iraq, Car

  "FOX News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. August 15, 2005.

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• You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

  Taylor Lautner

  Morning, Thinking, Paris

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• I've never been lucky. The day my ship came in, I was at the airport.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Lucky, Ships

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• When I see the crumbling roads and bridges, or the dilapidated airports, or the factories moving overseas to Mexico, or to other countries, I know these problems can all be fixed, but not by Hillary Clinton - only by me.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Moving, Bridges

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Sometimes I would make left turns all the way around a block, and when I returned to the original intersection, I would feel disappointed to find all the drivers were new. It wasn't like a square dance, where you miraculously end up with your original partner, laughing and feeling giddily relieved to find him after dancing with everyone else in the world. Instead, they swung around and kept on going, some people were at work by now, or halfway to the airport. In fact, driving might be the thing most opposite of dancing.

  Miranda July

  Block, Squares, Opposites

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• We are going to sign a treaty with Mexico. We are competing internationally. We need another international airport for international cargo, international travel, international businesses.

  Richard M. Daley

  Travel, Needs, Mexico

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• Flying while Muslim is nerve-racking in itself. Every time I prepare to fly, I have to make sure the anxiety I feel from all the stares I get from the moment I walk into the airport doesn't show on my face. This is what every woman in a hijab or bearded Muslim man experiences. But we are not alone: Sikh men who wear a turban experience the same anxiety because they encounter Islamophobia by dint of being perceived as Muslim.

  Debbie Almontaser

  Men, Anxiety, Flying

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• A fuel prices remain unstable and our nation's highways and airports suffer ever-increasing congestion and delays, Amtrak offers an invaluable alternative upon which Americans have come to rely

  Jim Jeffords

  Fuel Prices, Suffering, Delay

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• Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And leadership can't be given as a gift - even if you've been blessed with an abundance of leadership skills to share with someone else. Leadership must be earned by mastering a defined set of skills and by working with others to achieve common goals.

  David Cottrell

  Blessed, Skills, Goal

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• The next time you see a Muslim or Sikh at the airport, don't judge us - sympathize with us. Understand our humiliation every time we're pulled to the side for additional screenings simply because of who we are.

  Debbie Almontaser

  Judging, Who We Are, Next

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose, trembling mouth... People talking were meant to look at a face, the disastrous cupcake of it, the hide-and-seek of the heart dashing across. With a phone, you said words, but you never watched them go in. You saw them off at the airport but never knew whether there was anyone there to greet them when they got off the plane.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heart, Eye, Phones

  FaceBook post by Lorrie Moore from Jan 21, 2012

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• People in this country need to understand when you go to any airport in the United States, you are not protected by the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. They can do anything they want to you, and there is no where you can go to seek redress.

  Jesse Ventura

  Country, Rights, People

  "Jesse Ventura No Longer Flies, Thanks To Transportation Security Administration" By Andrea Stone, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 3, 2012.

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• My wife's nagging is like living near the airport. After a while you don't notice it any more.

  Tom Arnold

  Love, Wife, Nagging

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• I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

  Emir Kusturica

  New York, Years, Cities

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• In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  People, Soul, Devil

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2014). “Changing Planes: Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.

  William Faulkner

  Memorable, Perfection, Sainthood

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• The first word you see at the airport is 'terminal'.

  Beano Cook

  Humorous, Profound, Insane

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• When you are lying drunk at the airport you're Irish. When you win an Oscar you're British.

  Brenda Fricker

  Lying, Winning, Drunk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A shortage of airports runways and gates along outmoded air traffic control systems have made U.S. air travel the most congested in the world.

  Ray LaHood

  World, Air Travel, Runway

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

  George Pendle

  Prayer, Other Worlds, Temples

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I am very pleased to see this project moving ahead. The Hamilton Airport serves as an international gateway to south-western Ontario. This new facility will allow the airport to expand its air cargo business and help strengthen the local economy. This is another example of Ontario's commitment to public infrastructure that contributes to long-term growth for the region.

  Ted McMeekin

  Moving, Commitment, Long

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• Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you are the only person in line.

  Rich Hall

  Humorous, Mazes, Rope

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• If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or effort that's involved with it. The difficulty of travel, getting all your bags packed and your work done and navigating the airports and all that. That sort of struggle.

  Ian Bogost

  Fun, Struggle, Thinking

  Source: app.longform.org

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• You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mexico City airport, I decided I was in the middle of a movie and walked out on the wing on takeoff. My body... my liver... okay, my brain... went.

  Dennis Hopper

  Running, Cities, Wings

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