Driving Quotations
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| The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key. | |||
| - Edward Abbey | |||
| You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe. | |||
| - Edward Abbey | |||
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| It takes 8,460 bolts to assemble an automobile, and one nut to scatter it all over the road. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Car sickness is the feeling you get when the monthly payment is due. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| A pedestrian is someone who thought there were a couple of gallons left in the tank. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| Stupidity is not a handicap. Park elsewhere! | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| The speedway ends at the cemetery. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
| I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we ALL believe that we are above average drivers. | |||
| - Dave Barry | |||
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| Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him. | |||
| - Art Buchwald | |||
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| Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. | |||
| - Albert Einstein | |||
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| The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet. | |||
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
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| Walking isn't a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage. | |||
| - Evan Esar | |||
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| No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means. | |||
| - Garrett Hardin | |||
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| Remember the street car cannot turn out. | |||
| - Charles M. Hayes | |||
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| If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. | |||
| - Doug Larson | |||
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| The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man. | |||
| - Marshall McLuhan | |||
| The car has become... an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete. | |||
| - Marshall McLuhan | |||
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| Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. | |||
| - Lewis Mumford | |||
| Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities. | |||
| - Lewis Mumford | |||
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| A tree never hits an automobile except in self defense. | |||
| - American Proverb | |||
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| I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian.... That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday. | |||
| - Will Rogers | |||
| Another way to solve the traffic problems of this country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars be allowed to use the highways. | |||
| - Will Rogers | |||
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| A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man. | |||
| - Arnold Toynbee | |||
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| A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. | |||
| - Bill Vaughan | |||
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| A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. | |||
| - Peter De Vries | |||
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| Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. | |||
| - H.G. Wells | |||
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| Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. | |||
| - E.B. White | |||