Quotes About Mobility

Unlike features of a landscape like trees and mountains, people have feet. They move to places where opportunities are best, and they soon invite their friends and relatives to join them.

Inequality is seen as a harbinger of opportunity, a sign that education and other routes to upward mobility might pay off for them and their children.

half of American eighteen-year-olds do not have a driver's license.

Forty years ago two-thirds of children walked or biked to school; today 10 percent do. A generation ago 70 percent of children played outside; today the rate is down to 30 percent.209

Either way, I suspect that it's less effective to aim at the Gini index as a deeply buried root cause of many social ills than to zero in on solutions to each problem: investment in research and infrastructure to escape economic stagnation, regulation of the finance sector to reduce instability, broader access to education and job training to facilitate economic mobility, electoral transparency and finance reform to eliminate illicit influence, and so on.

And it explains why human beings have always been peripatetic, moving to wherever they can make the best lives. Roots are for trees; people have feet.

Roots are for trees; people have feet

There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall.

Ja sam biciklista. Možda sam iznad svega biciklista. (...) Ali ?ovek je kao biciklista prinu?en da bude izopštenik. Prinu?en je da živi na društvenoj margini, nasuprot ustaljenom saobra?ajnom sistemu u kome su svi motorizovani, ?ak i zdravi ljudi.

Carroll v. United States, in 1925, involved a search of a car without a warrant, for bootleg liquor.65 The Court, in an opinion written by Chief Justice Taft, explained that the mobility of cars justified allowing police to search them without needing a warrant because the "vehicle can be quickly moved out of the locality or jurisdiction in which the warrant must be sought."66

I really do like being independent, and I don't want to have to rely on anyone else to cart me around if I break a bone.

When I spend a lot of time in New York, or somewhere when I don't have a car, I miss that mobility and freedom that you have when you have a car. You don't have to rely on anyone else.

I'm tired of relying on someone to drive me around. I just want my freedom.

Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well.

I figured my body always would be able to repair itself. I think all of us believe that - until you begin to age and get hit with deteriorating joints.

Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.

I'm happy to report that the first Chromebook designed from the ground up to run Android apps out of the box has arrived, albeit a little past the end of 2016.

I know what I need to do to make myself and make my legs, most importantly, feel good.

It's not much different to Formula One where they are improving the cars constantly. The difference is every hand biker needs a different bike depending on their residual ability.

She likes to walk barefoot inside the house, even in winter It's one of the secretes of her long-lasting mobility, keeping her toes spread and feet grounded, same as all the other beasts of nature Hooves, that's what she's got hooves

it's one of the secrets of her long-lasting mobility, keeping her toes spread and feet grounded, same as all the other beasts of nature

Civilization can not be put into a ship and carried across an ocean.

You wrestle one night, get up the next morning and fly out to the next city. You try to work out, you try to get some food into you and, lo and behold, you have to go work again. You are living out of a suitcase.

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