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Quotes About Transport

Adoraba sumergirse entre sus páginas amarillentas, aspirar el olor a libro viejo y dejarse llevar por el poder de las palabras. Los libros la transportaban a mundos mágicos, lejanos, infinitos, repletos de aventuras y emociones.
~ Laura Gallego García
ships had to be sufficiently small and light to negotiate the narrow waterway to the Atlantic.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Alien Parasites project themselves into human beings, live virtually in the skull (in some cases other parts of the body) and treat people as transport vehicles as they themselves are not physically allowed on Planet Earth. Alien Parasites attack the human mind by Implantation of Ideas.
~ Laurence Galian
For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.
~ Laurent Fabius
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.
~ Laurent Fabius
put in a patrol wagon.
~ Charles A. Siringo
Faith is the substance that God used to create the universe, and He transported that faith with His words. God used His words as containers to transport His faith out there into the vast nothingness, into the darkness. He said, ''Light, be!" (Gen. 1:3.) And light was!
~ Charles Capps
whip and coachman and guard, however, in combination, had read
~ Charles Dickens
The last burst carried the mail to the summit of the hill. The horses stopped to breathe again, and the guard got down to skid the wheel for the descent, and open the coach-door to let the passengers in.
~ Charles Dickens
up hill in the mire by the side of the mail, as the rest of the passengers did; not because they had the least relish for walking exercise, under the circumstances, but because the hill, and the harness, and the mud, and the mail, were all so heavy, that the horses had three times already come to a stop, besides once drawing the coach across the road, with the mutinous intent of taking it back to Blackheath.
~ Charles Dickens
Les premiers travailleurs de l'aube n'étaient pas encore sortis de chez eux. Toutefois, on voyait luire les lumières matinales. Des hommes et des femmes se préparaient aux travaux quotidiens. Troupeau écrasé par une fatigue sans fin, ils allaient bientôt gagner les moyens de transport qui les emporteraient vers les usines. C'est ce qu'on appelle vivre.
~ Charles Exbrayat
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.
~ Grant Petersen
You forget everything. The hours slip by. You travel in your chair through centuries you seem to see before you, your thoughts are caught up in the story, dallying with the details or following the course of the plot, you enter into characters, so that it seems as if it were your own heart beating beneath their costumes.
~ Gustave Flaubert
A tanker truck appeared far down the wavy surface of the highway, headlights on, its weight and shimmering cylindrical shape and dedicated purpose so great and unrelenting that it seemed to move and jitter against the sun's afterglow without sound or mechanically driven power, sustained by its own momentum, as though the truck had a destiny that had been planned long ago.
~ James Lee Burke
during our ride. As we exited, a bus
~ James Patterson
trolley car ride.
~ James Patterson
People sometimes forget that Sydney is a harbour and it's the ferries that make it unique.
~ John Torode
There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
~ Rachel Nichols
The chief purpose of the body is to carry the brain around.
~ Thomas Edison
I absolutely hate cyclists. If they use the roads for free and they don't have to pay any tax, they must obey the rules.
~ Nigel Havers
A halfman on a skatecart oared past with leather chocks.
~ Cormac McCarthy
It's bad enough sitting in a car, never mind driving it.
~ Cornelia Funke
There is no frigate like a book To take us lands away, Nor any courser like a page Of prancing poetry. This traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of toll; How frugal is the chariot That bears a human soul! Emily Dickinson, The Poems of Emily Dickinson
~ Cornelia Funke
The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it there every year. The business of the Mississippi, which it will accomplish in time, is methodically to transport all of Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico.
~ Charles Kuralt