Greyhound Bus Quotes

• I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.

  John Lewis

  Philosophy, Night, Bridges

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• I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.

  David Morrissey

  America, Backpacking, Greyhounds

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2009.

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• Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Travel, Yards

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• You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

  Robert Johnson

  Evil, Body, May

  Song: Me And The Devil Blues

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• Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Success, Being Yourself, Secret

  "Edith Sitwell, a Unicorn Among Lions". Book by Victoria Glendinning (p. 54), 1981; later quoted in "An Uncommon Scold" edited by Abby Adams (p. 74), November 1, 1989.

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• If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Trying, Looks, Pekingese

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Eye, Technique, Stories

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• I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'

  Little Richard

  Ems, Bops, Greyhounds

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• I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.

  Shane MacGowan

  Hate, America, Age

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.

  John Waters

  Running, New York, Weekend

  Source: www.timeout.com

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