Quotes About Mobility

I can't jump in a car and drive it like most able-bodied people as we have to make pedals fit me and how my legs work.

I have a bit of a dodgy back so I'm trying my best to to keep it strong. Lots of squats and dead lifting.

Because I'm one of five people in Los Angeles who doesn't drive, I walk a lot.

I always try to travel as light as possible. I feel really embarrassed having loads of luggage.

But many southern whites were not under the racist hold of the Democrats. As they became more prosperous, these whites came to see the GOP reflect their beliefs in economic opportunity and upward mobility. They also found Republicans more in tune with their patriotism as well as their socially conservative views. Quite naturally, they moved over to a party that better reflected their interests and aspirations.

In a remarkable book, The End of Southern Exceptionalism, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston make the case that white southerners switched to the Republican Party not because of racism but because they identified the GOP with economic opportunity and upward mobility.

Cars, with their air conditioning, windows, sound systems, and great speed, keep us isolated from our environment... Self-propulsion, such as biking, walking, canoeing, puts us in touch with the land below and the world around us.

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.

The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.

There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls.

Consider all the demands that are placed on government, then factor in the gargantuan changes that have taken place in the past seven decades: the end of colonialism, the lifting of the Iron Curtain, the narrowing of the North–South divide, the revolution in technology, and the increased mobility of people. By any objective standard, democracy—though everywhere tested—has not failed and is not failing. Why, then, do we feel so often that it has and is?

Since the court migrated so often from place to place, horses, mules, coaches, carts and litters were essential

Education is the key to opportunity. It's a ticket out of poverty.

Everyone should ride the bus so that I can drive.

I hate to travel with stuff.

The people are like water and the army is like fish.

All the drug dealers and gang members with whom I dealt had [a cell phone] long before any police officer I knew did.

I felt that I was not penetrating to the full depth of my impression, that something more lay behind that mobility, that luminosity, something which they seemed at once to contain and to conceal.

So far the FDA has only approved them for Hadens. But paraplegics and quadriplegics can benefit from threeps. So can other Americans with mobility issues. So can older Americans whose bodies are failing them in one way or another. The FDA has kept threeps to Haden's victims because jamming a second brain into your head is inherently dangerous, Buchold said. You do it if you have no other choice. But everyone else should still _have_ that choice, Hubbard said.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.

The fire was followed by a period of grieving and then by an incredible lightness, freedom, and mobility.

Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.