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Quotes About Roads

If you love good roads, conveniences, good inns, plenty of postilions and horses, be so kind as to never go into Sussex. We thought ourselves in the northest part of England; the whole country has a Saxon air, and the inhabitants are savage. - To George Montagu, Esq., August 26, 1749
~ Horace Walpole
So you're going to Las Vegas,' said Bond. 'Funny coincidence department.' He told Leiter about his conversation with Shady Tree. 'Sure,' said Leiter. 'No coincidence about it. We're both travelling bad roads and all bad roads lead to the bad town. I
~ Ian Fleming
I have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.
~ Henrik Fisker
Argentina has decided to take its place in the global landscape. We need important companies of the world to finance and construct roads, ports, waterways, energy, trains. We're a huge country that only depends on trucks today. It's impossible.
~ Mauricio Macri
Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks.
~ Rob Ford
One day,' he said, 'we shall walk the Roads to the Abyss. And so witness all the wonders of the universe.
~ Steven Erikson
It's a well-known fact that Washington-area drivers are completely inept in the rain.
~ Susan Coll
For countries such as Kenya to emerge as economic powerhouses, they need better infrastructure: roads, ports, smart grids and power plants. Infrastructure is expensive, and takes a long time to build. In the meantime, hackers are building 'grassroots infrastructure,' using the mobile-phone system to build solutions that are ready for market.
~ Ethan Zuckerman
For my disciples, the map is simple. All lonely roads lead back to music. I embrace you. I forgive you. I will never leave you. Can humans say the same?
~ Mitch Albom
Non sono mai andato fuori strada nella vita. Il problema in questo nostro amato paese sono le strade, non chi le percorre.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Every member of Congress has highways in their district.
~ Blake Farenthold
I got my driver's license in Milan, so if you can drive in Milan you can drive all over the world.
~ Danilo Gallinari
The probable accumulation of the surpluses of revenue beyond what can be applied to the payment of the public debt... merits the consideration of Congress. Shall it lie unproductive in the public vaults?...Or shall it rather be appropriated to the improvements of roads, canals, rivers, education, and other great foundations of prosperity and union
~ Thomas Jefferson
Like so many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts--census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
~ Thomas Pynchon
San Narciso lay further south, near L.A. Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Like many named places in California it was less an identifiable city than a grouping of concepts—census tracts, special purpose bond-issue districts, shopping nuclei, all overlaid with access roads to its own freeway.
~ Thomas Pynchon
You may come as a proud prince today young Habsburg. But you shall travel many more roads in Castile in death than you ever will in life
~ C.W. Gortner
my soul is sore I leave my mountain home walk the long roads to the sea no-one remembers me except the dead no-one remembers the dead… no-one remembers the dead except the dead no-one remembers me walk the long roads to the sea I leave my mountain home my soul is sore
~ Candas Jane Dorsey
Cities are sustained by similar network systems such as roads, railways, and electrical lines that transport people, energy, and resources and whose flow is therefore a manifestation of the metabolism of the city.
~ Geoffrey West
Hari Seldon called Trantor 'Star's End,' he whispered, 'and why not that bit of poetic imagery? All the universe was once guided from this rock; all the apron strings of the stars led here. 'All roads lead to Trantor,' says the old proverb, 'and that is where all stars end.
~ Isaac Asimov
Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.
~ Nadine Labaki
Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.
~ William Blake
In California, the lines on the road are just a suggestion. They're in the left lane with the left indicator on, so naturally it's time to turn right! Are you kidding me? In your Prius? I know, you're saving the Earth by trying to kill the people!
~ Adam Ferrara
I feel it is my duty to help the migrants, the heartbeats of our country. We have seen migrants walking on the highways with their families and kids. We just can't sit in the AC and tweet and show our concern till we don't go on the roads, till we don't become one of them.
~ Sonu Sood