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Quotes About Roads

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere—particularly if they form loops. Loop drives are extremely popular with the petroleum industry—they bring the motorist right back to the same gas station from which he started.
~ Edward Abbey
The driver is safer when the roads are dry; the roads are safer when the driver is dry.
~ Anonymous
her shoes. The world seems to sway gently back and forth, as though the town is drifting lightly away. As though back onshore, all of France is left to bite its fingernails and flee and stumble and weep and wake to a numb, gray dawn, unable to believe what is happening. Who do the roads
~ Anthony Doerr
The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you because you are saying public health is the priority, not roads. Of course they are right to press for that issue, but so are we right, I believe, to argue, for example, that millions of children could and should be vaccinated.
~ Bono
The bottom line is that the federal government is an important partner in addressing issues like funding our public schools, fixing our crumbling roads and infrastructure, protecting our natural resources and ensuring that healthcare is affordable and protects people with pre-existing conditions.
~ Tony Evers
These landscapes aren't breaking news or necessarily even illegal. These are intentional, purposeful landscapes, whether to extend our cities or build a mine or put a road in or clear a forest. I've been photographing that which has been intended by us; it's not an accident.
~ Edward Burtynsky
If you're not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.
~ Kevin Spacey
I don't fund county roads.
~ Jeff Fortenberry
Instead of winding and skirting, Roman roads tend to go straight to the top. The chariots were light and the shortest distance between two points seemed to have governed their surveyors. I've read that some of their roadbeds go down twelve feet.
~ Frances Mayes
Everybody likes driving through scenic, winding roads. It's hard to find people who like sitting in traffic in cities.
~ Karl Iagnemma
Kelley Blue Book is raising awareness for distracted driving and trying to grow that awareness for people to make our roads safer. The biggest issue is people texting and being on their phone while driving, but it goes further than that. The safety and the awareness is so important.
~ Chase Elliott
Thankfully, roads have opened that could lead us out of this Brexit crisis. One obvious solution, which is fast gaining support, is to hand the issue back to the country. I would add that we also need formally to take no deal Brexit off the table, because that way lies chaos and disaster.
~ Dominic Grieve
To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.
~ Rolf Potts
Anxiety is the state of man…when he confronts his freedom…Whenever possibility is visualized by an individual, anxiety is potentially present in the same experience…Such possibilities, like roads ahead which cannot be known since one has not yet traversed and experienced them, involve anxiety…To Kierkegaard, the more possibility…an individual has, the more potential anxiety he has at the same time.
~ Rollo May
What progress requires inexorably of human beings and of continents is that they should renounce their strangeness, that they should break with mystery; and somewhere along that road is inscribed inexorably the end of the last elephant. The cultivated lands must encroach upon the forests, and the roads will bite more and more deeply into the quietude of the great herds. There will be less and less room for natural splendor. A pity.
~ Romain Gary
The Basics: The canals of Venice are a wonder to behold. There are no cars in Venice. There are no roads. Want to get somewhere? Walk, take a boat, or swim. Just kidding. Don't swim. The water's disgusting.
~ Sarah Mlynowski
There are a million roads into hell, but not one road out of it.
~ John Blanchard
Say no to asphalt!
~ John Bytheway
The snow fell straight and slow, adding another layer to the drifts and covering roads, trees, bushes, and bodies, the living and the dead as one beneath its veil.
~ John Connolly
In silvergreen rainy April they went down to Glastonbury on the long straight roads ...
~ John Crowley
Country roads, take me home To the place I belong West Virginia, mountain mama Take me home, country roads
~ John Denver
So much of the day was pointless repetitions, stacking things up and then knocking them down so you could pick them up again, driving back and forth over the same roads.
~ Edward Riche
The system of transportation is not coherent; it is not treated as integral. Roads compete with with railroads and airlines in chaotic fashion, and at immense cost to the nation.
~ Anthony Stafford Beer
A fringe minority of ordinary population put on slightly mask over mouth only at times on roads for fear of undue penalty or unnecessary tussle with the marshal, but the majority of people wear the face mask most of the time for fear of non-existent virus as their head is empty that easily believed fake news & forged stories spread 24x7 hours from all corners and channels
~ Anuj Somany