Automobile Quotes - Page 5

Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Running, Recovery, President

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Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

Diane Johnson

Car, Waste, Wasting Time

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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.

Ed Markey

Car, Waiting, Six Months

"Hardball" with Chris Matthews, May 5, 2005.

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In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion.

Man Ray

Photography, Horse, Perfect

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I'm sort of optimistic about what we could do, but I'm very pessimistic about what we will do. I can't tell you that Al Gore's 10-year plan is impossible. I'm old enough to remember the Second World War - if we had a World War II-type mobilization, we might accomplish Gore's plan. In 1940 we were making tens of thousands of automobiles, and in 1941 we were making tens of thousands of airplanes. We mobilized as a nation. If we get that kind of mobilization as a nation or globally, then we could solve a lot of these problems.

Paul R. Ehrlich

War, Airplane, Optimistic

"Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like big sprawling shopping malls. Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bill Bryson

Shopping, Car, Friendly

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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.

Radhanath Swami

Father, Struggle, Long

"A Swami and His Father" by Radhanath Swami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 18, 2011.

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I would never kill a living thing, although I probably have inadvertently while driving automobiles.

Don Van Vliet

Ghana, Car, Driving

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California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character.

J. B. Priestley

Philosophy, Character, Civilization

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If you design communities for automobiles, you get more automobiles. If you design them for people, you get walkable, livable communities.

Parris Glendening

People, Design, Community

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Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?

Pablo Neruda

Regret, Rain, Roots

Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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But I have to say this in defense of humankind: In no matter what era in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. And, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren't crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls' basketball.

Kurt Vonnegut

Basketball, Girl, Hate

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We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Success, Wisdom, Careers

Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date. So what if I can speak firsthand about the Spanish flu, the advent of the automobile, world wars, cold wars, guerrilla wars, and Sputnik — that's all ancient history now. But what else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

Sara Gruen

Real, War, What If

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... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.

Jean Webster

Running, Fall, Heart

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American cities are like badger holes, ringed with trash--all of them--surrounded by piles of wrecked and rusting automobiles, and almost smothered in rubbish. Everything we use comes in boxes, cartons, bins, the so-called packaging we love so much. The mountain of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use.

John Steinbeck

Cities, Mountain, Use

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Because memory is time folding back on itself. To remember is to disengage from the present. In order to reach any kind of success in automobile racing, a driver must never remember.

Garth Stein

Memories, Order, Racing

Garth Stein (2009). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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I think either party would have seen the wisdom in bailing out the American automobile industry, because one job in ten in the United States is either directly or indirectly connected to the automobile industry. You just could not let these companies go down.

Bob Lutz

Jobs, Party, Thinking

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And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it.

Barack Obama

Believe, Walks, Nations

First Speech to a Joint Session of Congress, delivered 24 February 2009

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Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

Bill Bryson

Benefits, Malls, Busier

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Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.

P. J. O'Rourke

Stupid, Passion, Ideas

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.117, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

James Norman Hall

Car, Community, Lost Friendship

"Under a Thatched Roof".

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Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christy Mathewson

Sports, Baseball, Umpires

Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.76, Penguin

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On the one hand, our minds try to probe the ephemeral reality of the quantum world; on the other, we talk, think, and act in a language adapted for discussing trees, rocks, and automobiles -- as well as poetry and emotions.

F. David Peat

Reality, Thinking, Rocks

F. David Peat (1990). “Einstein's moon: Bell's theorem and the curious quest for quantum reality”, McGraw-Hill/Contemporary

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To me the bicycle is in many ways a more satisfactory invention than the automobile. It is consonant with the independence of man because it works under his own power entirely. There is no combustion of some petroleum product..to set the pedals going. Purely mechanical instruments like watches and bicycles are to be preferred to engines that depend on the purchase of power from foreign sources....The price of power is enslavement.

Louis J. Halle

Men, Cycling, Independence

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