Transportation Quotes

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

The great Pacific Railway is commenced... Immigration will soon pour into these valleys. Ten millions of emigrants will settle in this golden land in twenty years... This is the grandest enterprise under God!

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Airplanes are interesting toys, but of no military value.

Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.

In these highways our engineering will reflect the National Socialist movement.

If it weren’t for my horse, I wouldn’t have spent that year in college.

When people think about Michigan, they usually think about cars.

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.

I still don't have a car. I still travel by public transport. I take autos to travel to and fro for recordings.

… an ideology on wheels

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will.

Sir; You are directed to have a transport … sent to the colored colony of San Domingo to bring back to this country such of the colonists there as desire to return. You will have a transport furnished with suitable supplies for that purpose and detail an officer … [who] shall have charge of the business. The colonists will be brought to Washington unless otherwise hereafter directed to be employed and provided for at the camps for colored persons around that city. Those only will be brought from the island who desire to return and their effects will be brought with them

Probably looking at a piece of paper and all the features of a minivan, the minivan is probably the best car in the world.

If God had intended us to fly, he’d never have given us the railways.

Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expense of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with those of the neighborhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.

We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.

I'm really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I'm out; I'm asleep for takeoff.

Wall Street is the only place that people ride in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

Among the means of advancing the public interest the occasion is a proper one for recalling the attention of Congress to the great importance of establishing throughout our country the roads and canals which can best be executed under the national authority. No objects within the circle of political economy so richly repay the expense bestowed on them; there are none the utility of which is more universally ascertained and acknowledged

I never run my train off the track and I never lost a passenger