Quotes About Transportation

The waste of capital, in proportion to the total capital, in this country between 1800 and 1850, in the attempts which were made to establish means of communication and transportation, was enormous.

In effect, our bodies and brains are a device or vessel 'birthed' by our Divine Spark out of DNA to act as information gathering equipment, as well as earthly transportation vehicles and as energy harvesting and processing devises. Additionally, the Divine Spark is capable of "morphing" our bodies into a star or light-gate for entrance to Sion and to be able to function there.

a high degree of narrative transportation impairs one's critical facilities.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I don't listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don't have a car.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

In the words of Enrique Peñalosa, who instituted bike and pedestrian streets and rapid transit in Bogotá when he was mayor, if a bike lane isn't safe for an eight-year-old child, it isn't really a bike lane.

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.

I drive an electric car.

California today is responsible for more than 40 percent of the nation's seagoing trade. That's why you can't talk about California without talking about its ports, as we will.

Like many of his contemporaries, Lincoln was troubled by what he perceived as the rapid rate of change in American life. Canals and railroads were bringing about a transportation revolution; the population was swiftly spreading across the continent; immigration was beginning to seem a threat to American social cohesion; sectionalism was becoming ever more divisive as the controversy over slavery mounted; the political battles of the Jackson era had destroyed the national political consensus.

If God had meant for us to walk, why did he give us feet that fit car pedals?

The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.

If God had intended us to fly, he'd have never given us railways.

I imagined loading the God of the Sea into a taxi and taking him to the Upper East Side.

The future of the airlines lay in hauling people, not in hauling mail for the government.

Beginning in 1973 and then acts in '77, '78, 1980, 1994 and then into the 21st century in the international arena, governments have steadily gotten out of the transportation business.

Not every innovation in transportation is going to come from government or even a large enterprise. There are smart people out there with tools and skills to come up with great ideas.

No great city has ever been known for its abundant supply of parking.

If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

I always try to say, 'If you want to help the environment, try to do just two things. One, use less of your car. Second, separate your garbage.'

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

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.