Transportation Quotes - Page 2

• The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.

  John Cotton Dana

  Library, Needs, Use

  "Libraries; addresses and essays".

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• You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered.

  Joel Achenbach

  Men, Long, People

  "The Car of the Future". voices.washingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

  Butch Cassidy

  Cycling, Machines, World

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• If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

  John Sherman

  Kings, Economic Inequality, Political

  "Elizabeth Warren’s Consolidation Speech Could Change the Election" by Paul Glastris, washingtonmonthly.com. June 30, 2016.

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• People across America who value bicycling should have a voice when it comes to transportation planning. This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized.

  Ray LaHood

  Should Have, Voice, America

  "Feds Deem Pedestrians, Cyclists and Motorists Equals" by Jason Kambitsis, www.wired.com. March 19, 2010.

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• A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Mean, Long

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• Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level.

  Ronald Reagan

  Character, Air, Water

  Ronald Reagan, Michael Reagan (2016). “The Last Best Hope: The Greatest Speeches of Ronald Reagan”, p.55, Humanix Books

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• I'm suspicious of any mode of transportation that requires a running start.

  Alan Kotok

  Running, Suspicious

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• About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks.

  Sherwood Boehlert

  Light, Oil, Car

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• Whenever calamity howlers shake their heads and impress upon you that this, that, and the next dire catastrophe is to befall this nation or the nations of the world-such as, for example, that exhaustion of the world's oil supply will bring all transportation and machinery to a standstill through lack of lubrication, or that exhaustion of the earth's stores of coal will make life unlivable in these cold climates-just smile and reply that the worst troubles of all are those that never happen [and] that you prefer not to cross shaky bridges until you come to them.

  B. C. Forbes

  Bridges, Oil, Next

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• I went to work at seven in the morning. Around noon time we got the watery soup. And we worked until seven or eight or nine at night, sometimes later. And then I walked back home - there was no public transportation - into that shared room. And if there was food we would prepare an evening meal depending on what was available. And then probably go to bed because it was cold most the time. And then start the day all over again, six or seven days a week.

  Lucille Eichengreen

  Morning, Home, Night

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• . . . It wasn't until the jet engine came into being and that engine was coupled with special airplane designs - such as the swept wing - that airplanes finally achieved a high enough work capability, efficiency and comfort level to allow air transportation to really take off.

  Joe Sutter

  Airplane, Jet Engines, Wings

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• I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products, which cause more greenhouse gases than all of transportation combined. The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking that if people are vegetarian for just one day a week, that makes a huge difference!

  Emily Deschanel

  Thinking, Animal, Years

  "Organic Living with Emily Deschanel". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.health.com. September 5, 2001.

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• Along with planes, running water, electricity, and motorized transportation, the internet is now a fundamental fact of modern life.

  danah boyd

  Running, Water, Modern Life

  danah boyd (2014). “It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens”, p.26, Yale University Press

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• In my opinion, one of the greatest animal-welfare problems is the physical abuse of livestock during transportation.... Typical abuses I have witnessed with alarming frequency are; hitting, beating, use of badly maintained trucks, jabbing of short objects into animals, and deliberate cruelty.

  Temple Grandin

  Animal, Abuse, Hitting

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• If food was no longer obliged to make intercontinental journeys, but stayed part of a system in which it can be consumed over short distances, we would save a lot of energy and carbon dioxide emissions. And just think of what we would save in ecological terms without long-distance transportation, refrigeration, and packaging--which ends up on the garbage dump anyway--and storage, which steals time, space, and vast portions of nature and beauty.

  Carlo Petrini

  Distance, Thinking, Journey

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• James Russell offers a timely and compelling blueprint for a realistic transformation of America's energy consumption by refusing to fall victim to conventional thinking. Accessible?pragmatic even?Russell's proposals speak to goals on the immediate horizon and underscore the role that intelligent design can play now in America. On a longer horizon, his analysis points to a range of issues about land use, transportation, and coordination of public and private investments to which the design professions have an enormous contribution to make. Here design and policy find common ground.

  Barry Bergdoll

  Fall, Thinking, Intelligent

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• I think transportation and corrections are not the first two areas that I would go looking for massive change.

  William Weld

  Change, Thinking, Two

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• He testified that when you looked at it through the eyes of 'let's do it,' the costs were very small. They were less than they'd had to spend to host a convention of transportation executives. The cost was not that great.

  Major Owens

  Eye, Cost, Host

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• Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, Food

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• Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation.

  David Suzuki

  Light, Environmental, Truck

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• Locally produced foods - defined as those harvested within a 100-mile radius of one's home - have a lesser impact on the environment because of the decreased need for transportation from source to consumer.

  Tyler Florence

  Home, Impact, Needs

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• If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.

  Rudy Gutierrez

  Art, Self, Medicine

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• Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

  Spike Lee

  Use, Vote, Human Nature

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• Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels, contributing to a decline in oil consumption in the United States in particular starting in 2006... The 93 billion liters of biofuels produced worldwide in 2009 displaced the equivalent of an estimated 68 billion liters of gasoline, equal to about 5 percent of world gasoline production.

  Christopher Flavin

  Oil, Impact, Fuel

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