Quotes About Roads

Die glücklichsten Menschen der Welt haben keine geteerten Straßen.

Britain, despite its roads, began shifting to wheeled transport early in the seventeenth century.

Early English roads were terrible. The Crown required landholders to maintain local roads at their own expense, one of three ancient obligations—to keep roads and bridges in repair, to build and maintain fortifications, and to serve in the militia—exacted to facilitate the kingdom's defense.30 Roads for ordinary communication and commerce were effectively orphans.

For at least one steam carmaker, the Stanley Motor Carriage Company of Newton, Massachusetts, that advantage was lost in 1914, when an epidemic of deadly hoof-and-mouth disease among New England farm animals led veterinary officials to shut down the many public watering troughs along eastern roads where steamers had rewatered.

Just keep moving! we're almost there. almost where? Juno chuckled. all roads lead there child. you should know that detention? Percy asked. Rome, child, the old woman said. Rome

Bib Block was sure that in any part of the country at all, whenever the name of this road was mentioned, people's hearts pivoted like Moslems to the east and flopped over. Sooner of later, he believed, at one stage of the journey or another, all roads led to the New Jersey Turnpike.

I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways with their huge signs and super cafes were for everyone else.

I realised, of course, that other people used these roads; but that night, it seemed to me these dark byways of the country existed just for the likes of us, while the big glittering motorways with their huge signs and super cafés were for everyone else.

On that walk around the building, two sets of cops coming out stopped to tell our guys to hustle us inside so they could head back out on the road. Accidents everywhere. A pileup on each of two major roads. "Welcome to winter," one said. "When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.

The roads leading from Lake Balaton to the frontier were littered with their tinny Trabant and Wartburg cars, abandoned without regret.

Dinamarca es un país llano con un buen sistema de carreteras, por lo que resulta imposible de defender contra cualquier ejército motorizado.

Well, you'd better hope I am because the world was built by sociopaths, men willing to send a million innocent boys into battle to be chopped to screaming giblets, all so a banner can be raised over another piece of land with houses and markets and roads soon after.

Obstacles in life are similar to speed bumps on roads. They are both in place for a reason. So, slow down, be observant and make it to the end of the road successfully.

Every single roundabout I come to is going to have five ways out of it, to Little Puddleby, and Upper Slaughter, and Something Parva,

A train was nearly due, and intending passengers were sitting in front of the hotels drinking beer while they waited, and various conveyances had stopped there on their way to Göhren or Sellin, and the Lonely One seemed a very noisy, busy one to me as we rattled by over the stones, and I was glad to turn off to the left at a sign-post pointing towards Göhren and get on to the deep, sandy, silent forest roads. The forest

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export.

I am absolutely a free marketeer and I believe the creation of wealth is a good thing and anyone who doesn't really needs to have their head examined - otherwise where are we going to get the schools, the roads, the universities, the third runway, dare I say it?

A well-functioning judicial or education system is just as much part of the wealth of a nation as its roads, ports and factories.

I made a commitment to the people of Louisiana to bring our federal tax dollars home to invest in our road, bridges and ports.

You are paying for petrol, roads, tolls but what are you getting? Year after year, the roads go bad and then get repaired, but the number of potholes only keep rising.

The middle class has disappeared. We have a highway to poverty and no roads coming out.

Roads and bridges can't serve us if they're continually eroded by a worsening climate crisis.

Of course you want a better culture of cycling in the U.K. Better roads. More respect.

I was elected to solve problems, and I don't think it's conservative to have bad roads; I don't think it's conservative to have bad schools. I don't think it's conservative to have to go through budget crises every two years. So I'm taking the difficult issues straight on. That's what I was elected to do.