Highways Quotes - Page 2

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

Baron de Montesquieu

Philosophical, Reason, Footwear

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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

Joseph Conrad

Sea, Doe, Use

Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Mirror of the Sea”, p.64, Xist Publishing

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We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

Al Stewart

Running, Reality, Peers

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We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

Corrine Brown

Moving, Citizens, Way

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When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

Brownie McGhee

Appreciate, Ems, Path

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America's highways, roads, bridges, are an indispensable part of our lives. They link one end of our nation to the other. We use them each and every day, for every conceivable purpose.

Christopher Dodd

Bridges, America, Purpose

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We continue to subsidize highways and aviation, but when it comes to our passenger rail system, we refuse to provide the money Amtrak needs to survive.

Corrine Brown

Needs, Amtrak, Aviation

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It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway,' but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Mike Royko

Views, Bipolar, Lunatic Asylums

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Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

John Keats

Cheer, Failure, Errors

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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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With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Dennis Hastert

Moving On, Believe, Quality

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This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don't subsidize, we don't want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

Joe Biden

Impact, Environmental, Gasoline

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A certain number of people have to live their lives outdoors between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and a certain number of people can only leave their homes between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. So basically, public life has to be lived in these shifts, in order for everyone to fit on the streets because there's just no more room for any more infrastructure, any more highways. So it polarizes the community into day people and night people, and it becomes sort of a metaphor for racism and classism.

Chuck Palahniuk

Home, Night, Order

Interview with Jeff Sartain, strangehorizons.com. October 16, 2006.

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While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

John Engler

Jobs, Mean, Opportunity

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After two years of hard work and debate, Congress has passed a highway bill that will help fuel our economy by creating roughly 500,000 new jobs, as well as address many critical transportation needs in Ohio and the 18th Congressional District.

Bob Ney

Jobs, Hard Work, Ohio

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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.

Warren Rudman

Airports, Bridges, Earthquakes

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During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Three, Youth, Frank

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As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

LeBron James

Kids, Office, House

Interview With Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.

J. G. Ballard

Death, Children, Car

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I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Anne Sullivan Macy

Kings, Hem, Stones

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Safety on our highways has improved significantly, with the help of the Legislature and the media.

Jane D. Hull

Media, Safety, Helping

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Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

Dan Bartlett

Thinking, May, Als

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Nowhere in this country should we have laws that permit drinking and driving or drinking in vehicles that are on American highways. This is not rocket science. We know how to prevent this, and 36 states do.

Byron Dorgan

Country, Drinking, Law

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I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

Greg Egan

Thinking, Decision, Lost

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Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.

Evel Knievel

Hands, Feet, Motorcycle

Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.

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