Highways Quotes

• There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Night
  • Simple
  • Dark

• I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Looks
  • States
  • United

• What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Disaster
  • Highways

• Between a quarter and a third of Los Angeles's land area is now monopolized by the automobile and its needs-by freeways, highways, garages, gas stations, car lots, parking lots. And all of it is blanketed with anonymity and foul air.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Car
  • Air
  • Los Angeles

• More time is wasted in front of computers than on highways.

  

  Ben Shneiderman
  • Time
  • Computer
  • Highways

• There is no rest stop on the misinformation highway.

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Stop
  • Rest
  • Misinformation

• I don't think that it's appropriate for the government to say, in effect, we're going to slow down the growth of housing or that we're going to slow down the extension of the highway and the freeway system.

  

  George Deukmejian
  • Thinking
  • Government
  • Growth

• I'm not a prophet of doom, I'm a prophet of love. But love will bid a warning doom to the children who play on the freeway. We need to wake up.

  

  Keith Green
  • Children
  • Caution
  • Warning

• We're beginning to realize that drowsiness or sleep deprivation, fatigue, is beginning to outstrip alcohol as a cause of accidents in transportation, particularly on the highway.

  

  William C. Dement
  • Accidents
  • Transportation
  • Fatigue

• I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Wonder
  • Vacuums
  • Forged

• So how are you supposed to learn how to drive with this guy yapping at you? My brothers were the ones who got to practice. So when you have to get on the expressway, you're afraid. That's what I think. That's why I take back routes on two-lane highways.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Thinking
  • Guy
  • Practice

• Without land, how can you have development of roads, highways, townships, etc?

  

  Kushal Pal Singh
  • Development
  • Land
  • Highways

• Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.

  

  Miriam Toews
  • Understanding
  • Stones
  • Avalanches

• Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Speed
  • Aggression
  • Highways

• What's important on a comedy show, or any show, is that some stories have to go somewhere. There have to be ends to the beginnings and middles you create. But sometimes it's like a way station on the highway, then the actual thing doesn't have to be this giant, climactic, life-changing, game-changing thing.

  

  Michael Schur
  • Comedy
  • Sometimes
  • Giants

• The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

  

  Theodore Roethke
  • Journey
  • Walking
  • Wind

• I know there are a lot of women who are afraid of driving on highways.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Knows
  • Driving
  • Highways

• The way to war is a well-paved highway and the way to peace is still a wilderness.

  

  Paul P. Harris
  • War
  • Stills
  • Wilderness

• Summer coming like a car from down the highway.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Nature
  • Car
  • Summer

• 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
  • Child
  • Bicycle
  • Transport

• We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

  

  Enrique Penalosa
  • Children
  • Happiness
  • Businesses

• I've been on every interstate highway in the lower forty-eight states by now and I never get tired of the view.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Tired
  • Highways
  • Interstate

• During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun setting in the distance, it was somehow easier to say things aloud, and regardless of what was said, we just kept moving toward that horizon.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Long
  • Moving
  • Distance

• People talk about the highway of life, but I think that’s crap. Highways are nice and paved, and they have signs telling you which way to go. Life isn’t like that at all. There are days when great things happen and everything is beautiful and perfect, and then, just like that, everything can go straight to hell. It’s like getting drunk. At first it feels kinda nice and all relaxed. And all of a sudden the room is spinning and you are throwing up, and, well, maybe life is a little like that.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Life
  • Drunk
  • Sings

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