Passenger Seat Quotes

• I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.

  Harriet Tubman

  Women, Eight, Years

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger.

  Harriet Tubman

  Track, Railroads, Lost

  Quoted in Lyde Cullen Sizer, Divided Houses (1992)

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• You love someone, you've got to let something go.

  Mark Haddon

  Love Someone

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• Why pamper life's complexities when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat?

  Steven Morrissey

  Running, Philosophy, Smooth

  "Song: 'This Charming Man'". 1984.

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• She saw herself riding in the passenger seat, Sam behind the wheel. Like two of those little peg people in a toy car. Husband peg, wife peg, side by side. Facing the road and not looking at each other; for why would they need to, really, having gone beyond the visible surface long ago. No hope of admiring gazes anymore, no chance of unremitting adoration. Nothing left to show but their plain, true, homely, interior selves, which were actually much richer anyhow.

  Anne Tyler

  Husband, Self, Long Ago

  "Ladder Of Years". Book by Anne Tyler, 1995.

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• What took you so long?” Nash asked, as he slid into the passenger seat and pulled the door closed. “I stopped to donate all your underwear to the homeless. You’re gonna wanna take care of those tighty whities—they’re all you’ve got left.” He leaned against the door, either too tired or too drunk to sit up. “And to think, most people don’t understand your sense of humor.” “Fools, all of them.

  Rachel Vincent

  Tired, Thinking, Doors

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Reaper”, p.15, Harlequin

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• I can drive. Let's just say you don't want to be in the passenger seat.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Want, Passengers, Seats

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• By setting the passenger seat of my car far back, and opening the glove compartment, I nestle in a very large sheet of thick fiberboard. It's big enough to hold a table easel, my big palette and a water container. Winter is not going to lock me indoors!

  Elizabeth Janeway

  Winter, Water, Car

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• Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you to dodge a bit quicker next time." "Sorry," he apologized meekly as he sat in the passenger seat. "Good," said Bran, shutting the door gently. "Don't let it happen again." -Bran and Charles

  Patricia Briggs

  Sorry, Doors, Hints

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• Hamilton awkwardly folded himself into the passenger seat. "Couldn't you get something bigger?" he asked as he banged his knee against the dashboard. "We're supposed to be a diversion," Jonah said. "Got to make an entrance. Can't do that in a minivan, Giganto Boy. Can't do much in a minivan except look about as uncool as it gets." "Hey! My dad drives a minivan." "Snap.

  Judy Blundell

  Dad, Boys, Knees

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• Thank you," I say, pounding his back probably too hard. "That was the best damned passenger-seat driving I've ever seen in my life." He pats my uninjured cheek with his greasy hand. "I did it to save myself, not you," he says. "Believe me when I say that you did not once cross my mind. " I laugh. "Nor you mine," I say.

  John Green

  Believe, Hands, Laughing

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• Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Lying, Rose, Diaries

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Fatality”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.

  Kevin Gates

  Morning, Writing, Night

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