Quotes About Mobility

We've only had aircrafts for a hundred years, and yet look at us. So, I've become absolutely fascinated by this strange, bizarre world of airports, air travel and transportation. It's interesting.

There are no practical alternatives to air transportation.

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.

Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

I don't own a car.

The MOUSE , The KEYBOARD and The Monitor over the years came closer and closer and became a family known as LAPTOP

Motion however will not help unless we have things moving.

I don't really believe in cars, but I drive one every day and I love that it gets me places and makes life so much easier and faster and I don't know what I would do without it.

I am in love with cars; I love anything that moves.

All ancient empires suffered from revolts, often led by provincial governors; and even when no overt revolt occurred, local autonomy was almost unavoidable except when conquest was recent, and was apt, in the course of time, to develop into independence. No large State of antiquity was governed from the centre to nearly the same extent as is now customary; and the chief reason for this was lack of rapid mobility.

In 1914, there were two countries in the world that required you to have a passport if you wanted to enter - Czarist Russia and the Ottomans. Anywhere else, you could come and go as you pleased.

As devices become more portable and content is increasingly digital, connectivity is fast becoming a fundamental expectation and lifestyle requirement.

The Indians, however, could not migrate from one part of the United States to another; neither could they obtain employment as readily as white people, either upon or beyond the Indian reservations.

It's damage to a nerve. It pretty much shut down the whole lower part of my left leg. I wasn't able to step anymore. It's called foot drop - basically, you can't lift your foot.

I took my sight and mobility for granted.

I can't really walk well. The muscles don't get the electronic signals from my brain, not that there's anything wrong with the muscles themselves. It's just my brain.

Mauma came down with a limp. When she was in her room or in the kitchen house for meals, she didn't have any trouble, but the minute she stepped in the yard, she dragged her leg like it was a dead log.

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel.

Pretty soon both the air and the roads would be so full that no one could move in comfort and everyone would have to go back to the railways for quick travel. Progress, that was.

Bogotá, como todas las capitales latinoamericanas, es una ciudad móvil y cambiante, un elemento inestable de siete u ocho millones de habitantes: aquí uno cierra los ojos demasiado tiempo y puede muy bien que al abrirlos se encuentre rodeado de otro mundo

ideal de los villeros no es el de cultivar el comunitarismo, ni formar una microsociedad, ni preservar su "identidad cultural", sino salir de allí lo más pronto posible; incluso las familias de villeros más organizados y con mejor situación envían a sus hijos a escuelas lejos de las villas y los que tienen un trabajo dan un domicilio falso.

Ride-sharing is inevitably going to be 100% electric.

As kids, we all wanted a bike. But a lot of people don't have that opportunity, especially in the inner city.