Highway Quotes

I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

Because you remember Meredith was walking along the highway there and somebody shot him.

While America's infrastructure needs are substantial, there is no reason to delay completion of the highway bill. Every day of delay means jobs lost, investment opportunities missed and growth sacrificed.

Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.

The best path through life is the highway.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

We all know we have a problem, a broad problem. Ninety-eight percent of the fuel that is used by our vehicles, our autos and trucks for personal and commercial purposes, for highway and air travel operates on oil. The world has the same problem.

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who... looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space... on the infinite highway of the air.

The man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the surface and made known, but tries to hide them, is unfit to walk the highway of truth.

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

We measure our days out in steps of uncertainty not turning to see how far we've come. And peer down the highway from here to eternity and reach out for love on the run.

That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death.

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

I think the Internet is absolutely extraordinary. It's very, very useful and I think one of the things we've got to do is make sure that the African continent gets on to that information super highway.

Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.

They came out over the highway and they stopped and that's when Barney got out, with the binoculars to try and identify the craft. I mean, he'd been in the military in World War Two, he's puzzled.

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

I'm not a Gingrich fan. He's just difficult to work with. It's either Newt's way or the highway.

I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

As a former lifelong Republican, it pains me to tell you that today's Republicans - and their standard-bearers, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan - just aren't up to the task. They're beholden to 'my way or the highway' bullies, indebted to billionaires who bankroll ads and allergic to the very idea of compromise.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

Discount air fares, a car in every parking space and the interstate highway system have made every place accessible - and every place alike.