Quotes About Mobility

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

I don't have a car. How am I going to get around?" "Taxi. Skateboard. Drone pickup. Figure it out!

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

In New York you can actually run into people on the street, unlike in California where you're always in the car.

Our vision for the world is making car ownership unnecessary.

I don't think I'm unusual in preferring my laptop to be thin and light.

One of the worst things about ageing is the waning of your physical powers. I live in a house with 64 stairs, and I cannot run up and down them any more; my knee has conked out.

The American middle class always wants to be upper class and is scared to death of being lower class. It's a highly mobile group of people. They're not like the people that want to be shopkeepers forever, have always been shopkeepers and want always to be shopkeepers. These people mostly are insulted by being called middle class.

That the actual practice of meritocracy mostly involves a strenuous quest to avoid any kind of downward mobility, for oneself or for one's kids, is something every upper-class American understands deep in his or her highly educated bones.

People need physical mobility in order to have upward economic mobility.

Low rents mean families have more resources to improve their quality of life and invest in the next generation, facilitating upward mobility.

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en masse; it wasn't so much a phenomenon of great numbers of people rising from one class to the next as it was standards of living rising sharply for all classes. You didn't have to be exceptional to rise.

My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then new affluence.

We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.

We must promote upward mobility, starting with solutions that speak to our broken education system, broken immigration policy, and broken safety-net programs that foster dependency instead of helping people get back on their feet.

We should continue to grow our economy and create employment opportunities, particularly quality jobs to help the upward mobility of young people.

Atlanta has a lot going on and part of that is upward mobility of the people who live there.

Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.

Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking, walking, and other low-energy forms of transportation.

The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

We must do all we can to reduce congestion in our urban areas and increase access and mobility in our rural areas, and this extra funding will help us get there.

My home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream.

Technology enables us to work every minute of every day from any place on the planet.