Quotes About Ford

I was driving to school at Reseda High School - I was a junior, and it was early 1956. I had a '49 Ford. I was listening to the country station, and 'Folsom Prison Blues' comes on... It didn't sound like the stuff I was hearing on the pop stations.

All play, all sport, until Ferdia came to the ford. I thought beloved Ferdia would live forever after me - yesterday, a mountain-side; today, nothing but a shade.

He grasped him in his two hands and ground and rattled him until the dung was forced out of him. The ford grew foul with his droppings.

They put their animals to the ford and crossed, the water up under the horses' bellies and the horses picking their way over the rocks and glancing wildly upstream where a cataract thundered out of the darkening forest into the flecked and seething pool below.

I know of no pleasure more reliable than consuming a great American brand against the backdrop featured in its advertising. Driving a Ford pickup down brown dirt roads. Swigging a Coke on the beach in Malibu. Flying Great West over central Colorado. It's a feeling of restfulness and order akin, I suspect, to how the ancient Egyptians felt watching the planets line up over the Pyramids. You're in the right place, you're running with the right forces, and if the wind should howl tomorrow, let it.

When I wrote The Betsy, I spent a lot of time in Detroit with the Ford family. The old man running the place had supplied me with Fords, a Mustang, that station wagon we still have…. After he read the book and I was flying home from New York the day after it was published, he made a phone call to the office on Sunset and asked for all the cars to be returned. I guess he didn't like the book.

Cuando en 1914 Ford empezó a tener dificultades para mantener una fuerza de trabajo estable debido a la monotonía y el aburrimiento de la línea de montaje, anunció que pagaría a sus trabajadores cinco dólares diarios. Siempre dijo que ese había sido uno de los «recortes de costes de producción más inteligentes que hemos hecho».

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

The stuff that I got in trouble for, the casting for The Godfather or the flag scene in Patton, was the stuff that was remembered, and was considered the good work.

EOG ended up focused on the Eagle Ford Shale, which underlies South Texas.

Reading musses up my mind.

Chadwick Boseman work as an actor, I think, is truly remarkable, and I had a great time working with him.

FROM THE EARTH COME THE MATERIALS, read the huge letters Teague inscribed on the wall behind the display, TO BE TRANSFORMED FOR HUMAN SERVICE BY FORD MEN, MANAGEMENT AND MACHINES.

My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.

The shout, "Stop those men!" went largely unheeded as they galloped off down the street. Trappers and hunters as a breed were seldom inclined to mix themselves in other men's affairs, and Garion, Silk, and Belgarath had passed through the village and were splashing across a ford before any kind of pursuit could be organized

Thus, Ford was willing enough to participate in Nazi anti-Semitism if it turned a profit.

I travel in a Ford Econoline van with a trailer. So it's not quite so glamorous.

Down on Cyprus Avenue With a childlike vision leaping into view Clicking, clacking of the high heeled shoe Ford and Fitzroy, Madame George

This is my 1963 Ford. It was the only car I could A-Ford.

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.

I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car.

When Henry Ford said, "The customer can have a car in any color as long as it's black," he was not joking.

Ford can't sell trucks currently, and GM is not selling as many cars as it would like to. That is a problem of product and pricing, not a systemic problem of abandonment by consumers.

I got my first car when I was 16 but I didn't have a license; it was a Ford Escape and I just let it sit there for two years because I enjoyed having my mom drive me.