Transport Quotes

• Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Flower, Victory

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• An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Cities, Car, Use

  "Why buses represent democracy in action". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2013.

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• Transport a handful of earth everyday and you will make a mountain.

  Confucius

  Everyday, Mountain, Earth

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• There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Writing

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• If we’re going to talk about transport, I would say that the great city is not the one that has highways, but one where a child on a tricycle or bicycle can go safely everywhere.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Cities, Tricycles

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• No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.

  Russell Simmons

  Past, Matter, Rich

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• Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Simple, Issues, Decision

  "Cities bear the brunt of air pollution - they can also solve it" by Leo Hollis, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2014.

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• I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.

  Martha Beck

  Believe, Light, Shadow

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• Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Should Have

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• The finest mode of transport known to man.

  Adam Hart-Davis

  Men, Cycling, Finest

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• People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

  Simeon Strunsky

  People, Democracy, Library

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• If transport, housing and Olympic projects do not work, I will crawl away under a stone.

  Ken Livingstone

  Stones, Projects, Housing

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• Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Food, Years

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• The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Air, Average, Essence

  Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

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• There isn't a train I wouldn't take, no matter where it's going.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Matter, Train

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.162, eBookIt.com

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• Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Communication, Men, Voice

  "'Terre des Hommes' ('Wind, Sand and Stars')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, translated by Lewis Galantière. Chapter III: "The Tool", 1939.

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• Only electricity can give the transport sector the flexibility to switch fuels when one or more become too expensive.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Giving, Fuel, Electricity

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• A great song can make you cry and transport you to another dimension.

  Charli XCX

  Song, Dimensions, Cry

  Source: coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Air, Village, Earth

  America and Cosmic Man ch. 2 (1948)

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• Our motor car is our supreme form of privacy when we are away from home.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Home, Car, Privacy

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• Without natural resources life itself is impossible. From birth to death, natural resources, transformed for human use, feed, clothe, shelter, and transport us. Upon them we depend for every material necessity, comfort, convenience, and protection in our lives. Without abundant resources prosperity is out of reach.

  Gifford Pinchot

  Use, Shelter, Comfort

  Gifford Pinchot (1998). “Breaking New Ground”, p.505, Island Press

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• The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.

  Arthur Erickson

  Tourism, Tourists, Demand

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• Slander, whose whisper over the world's diameter, as level as the cannon to its blank, transports its poisoned shot.

  William Shakespeare

  World, Levels, Blank

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• It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Book, Doe, Able

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.

  Jaime Lerner

  Alternatives, Problem, Traffic

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