Highways Quotes - Page 15

• I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.

  Chris Rock

  People, Broken, Car

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

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• To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mistake, Errors, Land

  John Stuart Mill (1866). “Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy”, p.4

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• Speed is relative. Does it feel fast going 70 miles per hour down an eight lane highway? No, probably not, but I bet it does if you are going down some single lane dirt road. It's the same in a race car. It depends on the track.

  Kyle Petty

  Eight, Race, Track

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• I grew up on the sets of Bonanza and most of my (childhood) memory is (on the set of) Little House. I was actually an assistant cameraman on Highway to Heaven. So, I observed my father working for many years. He was a very giving person. I really respected the way he ran his sets. He never treated anyone differently - whether you were the guest star of the show or the grip. Everybody was treated with respect.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Stars, Memories, Father

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The cars of the migrant people crawled out of the side roads onto the great cross-country highway, and they took the migrant way to the West.... And because they were lonely and perplexed, because they had all come from a place of sadness and worry and defeat, and because they were all going to a mysterious new place, ... a strange thing happened: the twenty families became one family, the children were the children of all. The loss of home became one loss, and the golden time in the West was one dream.

  John Steinbeck

  Country, Dream, Lonely

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• People who picnic along the public highway leaving a clutter of greasy paper and swill (not a pretty name, but neither is it a pretty object!) for other people to walk or drive past, and to make a breeding place for flies, and furnish nourishment for rats, choose a disgusting way to repay the land-owner for the liberty they took in temporarily occupying his property.

  Emily Post

  Past, Land, Names

  Emily Post (2007). “Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home”, p.34, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.

  Todd Helton

  Baseball, Hard Work, Degrees

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• I did most of my volunteer work when I was in college because I knew of more ways to get involved. In high school, we'd do things like, there was a homeless shelter near our hometown and our church group decorated one of the rooms. In college, I was in a sorority, and we did a lot of things, like pick up trash on the highway.

  Carrie Underwood

  School, College, Volunteer

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• Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Cost, Kind, Splendid

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• If He put tribulation before you and said He will give you patience by giving you a little trouble along the way, wouldn't you take a little trouble? You say, 'Lord, I want all my highways paved.' the Lord says, 'I'm sorry, I can't accommodate you. I'm going to let you run over some bumps occasionally, so you will have patience.' You do not like the bumps, but you like the patience, and if you want the patience, you will have to take the bumps. And what is patience but experience?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Running, Sorry, Giving

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• A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline.

  Gigi Graham

  Responsibility, Air, Discipline

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• I'd rather be robbed by an armed highway man than the politicians and their bankers. A highway man gets away from you as fast as he can and lets you alone. The politician robs you and stands there and insists he did it for your own good.

  Raymond C. Hoiles

  Men, Bankers, Politician

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• Because I believe a lot of people share my feelings about the tragic landscape of highway strips, parking lots, housing tracts, mega-malls, junked cities, and ravaged countryside that makes up the everyday environment where most Americans live and work. A land full of places that are not worth caring about will soon be a nation and a way of life that is not worth defending.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Caring, Land

  Interview with Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.

  John Lennon

  Listening, Blonde, Ears

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• Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Death, Elephants, Car

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• Conservatives in general, and even so called Tea Party conservatives, are not against transportation spending. Indeed, interstate commerce is one purpose of interstate highways and byways, and is one of the things the federal government is actually supposed to spend our tax dollars on. What conservatives are opposed to is needless and excessive spending, pork-barrel spending, deficit spending, spending to pick winners and losers among American individuals and corporations, and spending to promote the social and economic whims of the Washington few.

  Barry Loudermilk

  Party, Government, Tea

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• American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just the head -- supposedly for people to drive along the highway with.

  Billy Connolly

  Sex, People, Dolls

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• I like to get that roll and pitch. I really like to take the car out on the highway for a spin.

  Ron James

  Car

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• The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Hero, Broken, Lasts

  Song: I Was Born To Run, Album: Born To Run, 1975

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• There are many rules for the elderly in the Highway Code. I have one too, and here it is: get a bloody move on.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Moving, Elderly, Bloody

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• If I'm in Malibu driving up and down Pacific Coast Highway, my '68 Dodge Charger usually is what I like to drive.

  Brody Jenner

  Dodge, Driving, Coast

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• Choices are like connecting highways. They all take you to the same place. Some just take longer to get there.

  Ione Skye

  Choices, Insomniac, Connecting

  "Fictional character: Frankie". "Dream for an Insomniac", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass. ... Music should never be harmless. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Song, Nice

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• It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.

  Robbie Robertson

  Nice, Bridges, Names

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• We humans are basically content with a two-dimensional world, which is what we-ve always occupied. We travel mostly on the ground, have traffic jams, parking problems , and we-d do a lot better to look up a little bit because there is that great aerial highway that-s always ready to go, you Don't have to pave it and the benefits are very great.

  Paul MacCready

  Two, Looks, Jam

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