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Quotes About Mobility

Why do I always forget that traffic is a social affair?
~ Stefan Emunds
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
~ David Brooks
Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.
~ George W. Bush
The power of hanging Pawns is based precisely in their Mobility, in their Ability to create acute situations instantly.
~ Boris Spassky
In this country, where workmen move about frequently and with facility, the unions suffer in their harmony and stability. It
~ William Graham Sumner
Their analysis clearly revealed the existence of a color line that effectively blocked black occupational, residential, and social mobility. They demonstrated that any assumption about urban blacks duplicating the immigrant experience had to confront the issue of race.
~ William Julius Wilson
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
~ David Brooks
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.
~ David Byrne
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
~ David Byrne
My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.
~ Michael Chang
To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
~ Ted Turner
I found myself being helped down to the car. That sort of help is actually a hindrance. If you ever see someone with a walking stick, that stick, and their arm, are actually a leg.
~ Jo Walton, Among Others
A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.
~ Russell Baker
A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.
~ Demetri Martin
I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born.
~ Bill Gates
Cycling also offers a sense of independence, of being able to get up and go wherever and whenever you want. That's invaluable.
~ Adrian Bell
Movement is the essence of life.
~ Bernd Heinrich
I can't dance anymore. Total knee replacements. I can't do anything anymore.
~ Annie Dillard
The diagram shows three streets with heavy, moderate and light
~ Jan Gehl
F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had suspense, surprise, and a faint hint of danger; above all, they had the supreme quality of transience, which puts the keenest edge on beauty and makes it touch some spring in the heart which more enduring excellences cannot reach.
~ Jan Struther
34,000 passengers
~ Janet B. Pascal
For a lot of people a car means freedom and social status, but if a city provides you no choice but to drive, a car isn't freedom, it's dependence. If you have no choice but to drive for every trip, it's not your fault. Your city has failed.
~ Janette Sadik-Khan
Education, a force meant to erode class barriers, now fortifies them.
~ Jason DeParle
His mentor, Master Kung always used to tell him about the importance of warm up. He used to say, "Steve, if you don't warm up, your body will become rigid and you will become slow. Never miss out on your warm-ups." Jeffery
~ Alex Anderson