Quotes from Keith Robertson

Of course, now that we've made the glorious Fourth safe by banning fireworks, he said, people take to the highways in droves and kill each other with their automobiles. I suppose I should take you down to the shore today but frankly I'm afraid to. I wouldn't drive anywhere for all the tea in China

During the Depression, much of my career was dictated by a fanatical aversion to washing dishes. The only job I could find to finance college involved washing dishes,so I joined the Navy instead.

Mr. Glass kept complaining about having to drive up to the hotel with that bag on top of the car, but the people didn't even glance at us. My father says Los Angeles is full of lunatics, so I guess they thought we were normal.

They came to a bumpy stretch in the country road. The jeep jounced up and down, and the tools and equipment bounced and clattered until it was impossible to talk over the noise. To Cloud the din was a symphony. That was the way a jeep was supposed sound. It wasn't a limousine for softies but a car for tough outdoorsmen who carried tow chains, crowbars, and camp stoves. The Year of the Jeep by Keith Robertson (also called The Jeep