Discover the most popular and inspiring quotes and sayings on the topic of Highways. Share them with your friends on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, or your personal blogs, and let the world be inspired by their powerful messages. Here are the Top 100 Highways Quotes And Sayings by 88 Authors including Wendell Berry,Neal Stephenson,J.r.r. Tolkien,Ishmael Reed,Jack Kerouac for you to enjoy and share.
The road is a word, conceived elsewhere and laid across the country in the wound prepared for it: a word made concrete and thrust among us.
Parking lots and chaos.
See your road through.
What is the American fetish about highways?
They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers.
Because something is after them, Black Herman adds.
But what is after them?
They are after themselves. They call it destiny. Progress.
It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhowRoad-- Jack Kerouac
I'd like to invoke the Native American Navajo because their word for road is used as a verb. Their whole relationship to road has to do with how you travel it, who you are traveling it with, what the environment might be, where you're headed, in what direction, the weather and so on.
heading west on the 495.
I followed those highway signs and I've run down those thin white lines.
The story of 'Highway' is completely about travel. It is about the fascination of travel to an extent that I don't want to even reach the destination and also being away from society gives you a certain view of the society, so that was the intention of the film.
Let me close with a word of caution: when you're on the turnpikes and freeways of America, watch out for those Winnebagos and Bounders. You never know who might be inside. Or what.
You look out of the car window on your right and are surprised to find that the narrow, worn strip that carries you has turned into a wide, smooth elegant road. The asphalt shines, and soon it separates out, rising to a hill with classy building, and you realize it leads to a settlement.
Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to find rest, refreshment, and time for what matters most in life.
The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.
I was used to driving my sun chariot across the sky, where every lane was the fast lane. I was not used to the Long Island Expressway. Believe me, even at midday in the middle of January, there is nothing express about your expressways.
Eventually we all run out of road.
All the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel
the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.
There's two lanes running down this road which ever side your on, accounts for where you want to go or what you're running from.
These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.
As we must always remember, the most important freight that a road carries may be neither household goods, nor livestock, nor munitions of war - but ideas!
That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
Face it, friends. For this journey, roads are optional.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.
The traffic was moving about the speed of a government
Some roads are born to be admired and born to be travelled!
Hate-on-the-highway is an institution occupying a high place in our modern civilization ... The godawful glares that drivers exchange as they pass each other, the mutual hatred between motorist and pedestrian, these manifestations seem to constitute the ultimate in righteous wrath.
every 60 miles of interstate, add one hour; for every 50 miles of state highway, add another hour; and add an hour for every 40 miles of back roads and another for every 20 miles of city streets.
A driver reaches a destination by driving on that road, not by laying back to enjoy the view.
The Lincoln Highway is to be something more than a road. It will be a road with a personality, a distinctive work of which the Americans of future generations can point with pride - an economic but also artistic triumph. (1914)
Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.
I hate the road so much. I almost go into a cocoon with my own people out there.
turnpike itself. Garraty
And roads, new roads probing endlessly, shamelessly, as though all that mattered was to be elsewhere.
The only people who believe in straight roads are generals & mail coach drivers.
Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.
People are sitting in traffic longer, and the types of solutions that are needed to relieve that congestion are ones that are paid for by the Highway Trust Fund.
As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others.
The road, Hwel felt, had to go somewhere. This geographical fiction has been the death of many people. Roads don't necessarily have to go anywhere, they just have to have somewhere to start.
If building roads actually resulted in less traffic, then surely after sixty years of interstate highway construction we would all be cruising at highway speed.
The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.
Roads are made for horses and men of business. I do not travel in them much, comparatively, because I am not in a hurry to get to any tavern or grocery or livery-stable or depot to which they lead.
What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.
Louisiana, the state road maintenance forgot.
I love driving my car on any highway.
I love the fast lane.
If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.
We're taking a ride down the Kashirksy Highway
They say that every person, every venture, every city has a place where the road splits and you have to choose your direction.
The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.
One always wonders about roads not taken.
The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.
Roads never end, only your ability to continue the road may end!
In this era, I-ways are as essential as Highways ... We need both Information Ways and Highways.
Highway 1 could be today's Route 66 with a view.
Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.
The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.
Doubtless there are other roads.
We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.
car. I headed down CA-116 - the winding road
When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.
Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
the road, so he must have driven the
Without Warning
Sometimes you're traveling a highway, the only road you've ever known, and wham! A semi comes from nowhere and rolls right over you.
you must everywhere build on piles of your own driving.
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!
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.
The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.
Every road has dangers, but not every road has obvious dangers! Watch out the hidden ones!
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.
That's where the money is, on the road.
A bridge. A big bridge with lots of traffic. You can't be serious. I've almost killed us at least twice going up and down these crazy hilly roads!" I yelped with true fear in my quivering voice.
You have got to connect your land use decisions with transportation decisions.
Just drive down that road until you get blown up.
There are many roads even though you have only one destination.
Roads are long; make them short with a good company!
Roadway. We didn't stop at the house, but instead rounded the corner and stopped a block away. Stepping out and
The highway's closed at a certain point. You have a certain amount of miles that you can make. It's a recognition of mortality.
detours in the road. Because without them, this life
highway after the boy.
The dead have highways." Clive Barker
roads are rarely what they appear to be and are not predictable. Maybe safe is about the company you keep and not about the road you take?
valley. After a half mile the road deteriorated into a
Do not complain about the length of the road! What will you do when the road finishes? Let it continue!
Everywhere I go, I see incredible examples of communities that have a vision for transportation and how it will impact the quality of life, mobility, economics and opportunity.
Too many accidents with all the traffic ...
It is my conviction that highways and I-ways have similar importance these days. My effort is to connect all 600,000 villages with optical fiber networks in the next five years.
When stuck, hit the road.
My district includes the two urban centers of Charlotte and Fayetteville, as well as large rural areas. Obviously, these diverse segments of North Carolina require different approaches to meeting current and future transportation demands.
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
streets with no signs,
By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.
some twenty more miles on an old two-lane country road. Traffic was light, just a couple of pickups and a Volkswagen,
There's a simple solution to our traffic problems. We'll have business build the roads, and government build the cars.
The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented.
Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.
One time in your life
You've got the route in hand
But the map is stuck
They said it's not your fault
The tires are tired the camera moves
And your driver's been pulled
America's infrastructure is now so wretched that, in some areas, the only people who drive straight are the drunks.