Roads Quotations

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.

The word 'aloha,' in foreign use, has taken the place of every English equivalent. It is a greeting, a farewell, thanks, love, goodwill. Aloha looks at you from tidies and illuminations; it meets you on the roads and at house-doors. It is conveyed to you in letters: the air is full of it.

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

I do not object to the construction of rail roads and canals.

I am deeply grieved by the loss of the crew of Columbia. I express my sincere condolences to the families and friends of the astronauts. I believe that their names will remain as the bright sparkling stars in the universe and will light the way for those who will follow them on the difficult roads of space exploration.

In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.

These roads do not serve transportation alone, they also bind our Fatherland.

When I think of 'Mad Dog Time,' I think of the fact that I got to drive fast cars all day long up in Canada. That was really fun. We were on these back roads with these great cars.

I have a 100-mile round trip commute on some of the nations' busiest roads and enjoy every minute of it.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you.

Chennai is a beautiful city; I love the roads here and also know the routes. But one tip for car/bike enthusiasts - your life is most important; so, drive safe!

I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.

There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.

I think it's really hard for teenage girls in London to just gently... have a life. Everything has to be organised for kids in London - you can't just walk three roads to see a friend.

We all ran barefooted on the dusty roads in our past, but now the Emperor wears shoes, and it is our responsibility to ensure that the barefooted child and the doting mother are afforded a holistic environment to realise their dreams and ambitions.

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

Obama might as well be president of Turkey or Brazil; it does not matter. It's the system that is absolutely flawed, where 25 or 35 or 50 people make multi, multi-billions on building Olympic structures while people live in Barbados and have no roads or clean drinking water. There's something pretty inequitable there.

I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time?

When in college, I would hardly attend classes. In fact, we would go to other colleges and hang out there. Every six months, my friends and I would hit the roads and go to Goa. We weren't rich kids, and our trips were on shoestring budgets. But, we hardly cut down on the fun.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.

One of the concerns is that if we wait to build, the cost of construction will continue to escalate, increasing the debt we have to repay or lessening the amount of roads we are able to build.

I wish they'd leave it alone, because the area just can't handle that much traffic, and our roads are in terrible shape.

I wouldn't want to be out on the rural roads tonight up there.

I grew up there, and it seems like the best place to me - somewhere where you know everything. Where you know where all the roads go.

One of my friends was right in saying that the Irish built the roads here and now they can't drive on them.

One of the things drivers in this area get to brag about is that the roads do run so smoothly.

My dad wanted me to be a professional person, which I was - I was a civil engineer. I graduated from civil engineering at USC in California. I became an engineer, and I helped design the roads for the L.A. County Roads Department. And I did that for about one and a half years in a sense to please my parents - to be a 'respectable' person.

People, when they?re driving on mountain roads ? curves are to be expected, and it?s not practicable to sign all the curves. Just the general nature of the terrain would suggest there are curves.

No doubt, Lafayette Parish has road needs beyond our funding needs. Numerous other roads in Lafayette need help. But when you look at the volume of traffic coming up this two-lane road ... this makes a lot of sense.

No other roads were undermined and there were no major mudslides. Considering the amount of rainfall, things turned out to be in pretty good shape.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

We?re concerned that there?s a lot of hidden back roads that are hard to get to.

License plate recognition systems don't create congestion. For small states like Connecticut, where people can easily drive through without having to buy gas, drivers are essentially using the state's roads for free. Tolls are an effective way to collect money from them.

Miles of roads are also being enhanced to support the operations of the new space launch facility.

She always stood up and said we're going to stop Columbus from eating up lots of the land. She helped a lot with getting Norton Road widened. She always said the roads weren't safe.

Many of us feel that the soul of Texas may be riding on this campaign. I would dearly love to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property tax.

Seven out of the 10 bits of litter we find on our pavements and roads are food related. And with all this trash to choose from, the pigeon, rat, fox and gull population has spiraled.

Hampton Roads is still trying to figure out what they want to do. I don't know that you can afford to let the budget continue to wait totally for Hampton Roads at this point.

Jake?s a great story. He?s played through an injury this year, had some rocky roads but he played outstanding tonight and made some great saves.

He knows those roads like the back of his hand. Plus, he's riding really strong right now.

We are going to need a new concept in order to pay for all the roads we will need.

I am really pleased that the IAAF has decided to recognize performances achieved on the roads as world records,

I don't think anyone will have a handle on how the fingers of the Dan Ryan will be affected. All the roads are interconnected, and one accident can have a domino effect on everything.

From what I'm hearing, the UPS truck and car sort of tangled in an accident and the bus became involved later when the UPS truck lost control. The roads were just wet with a little bit of slush at the time of the accident.

From Boston, Providence or Warwick, you could say all roads lead to Gillette. It matches our market area perfectly.

From a business standpoint, the more people the merrier. They've got to do something with the land. As long as they can keep the roads up with the growth, it's great.

If we see numbers go down, it's still not enough. It would be nice to be able to eliminate all crashes. It would be nice to have people slow down, and use seat belts, and make common-sense decisions when they're on the road, and Florida's roads will be safer, even with all the people that are driving.

Given the severity of the storm, we expect that stores in the affected areas could lose up to two days of sales as roads were nearly impossible to navigate.

If all roads lead to Rome, we can only wish for thousands of roads to lead to Revolutionary Rome!

For those who are counting, that's a steep four-and-a-half-fold increase in 16 years. When state and local gas levies are included, motorists in many states now pay 40 to 50 cents a gallon. It's hard to say where all the money has gone. Clearly, the nation's roads aren't four and a half times better today than they were 15 years ago. In fact, it seems that there are more watermelon-sized potholes nowadays than ever.

Fortunately, temperatures are not down in the teens or zero. It's relatively easy to handle. And I think these roads will be in good shape.

I believe the roads are closed in that area already, so movement around there is very limited.

But it was nearly impossible to have all the roads cleaned up as early as the rush hour. We couldn't get ahead of it until it started dissipating.

But it's important to note that we are open for business. All roads are passable, business are opening their doors. We are getting back to normal just cleaning up some.

Because of the complexity and difficulty of snow plowing at the high school, the arrangement worked out with the town is we hire a private contractor to do the snow plowing at the high school. It frees up public works to concentrate on the roads and the other five schools.

We support education, but this is not a project that needs to be funded by the Nueces County taxpayers. There are many uses for surplus money in Nueces County. There are portions of the unincorporated area that do not have potable water. There are roads that need to be constructed or improved.

We must intensify our efforts to build rails, roads and other cross-border infrastructure and coordinate the associated laws, rules and regulations. Financing will be a major challenge.

He was flashing his hazards for the oncoming traffic to give way for him until he had a head-on collision with a brand new Range Rover and died on the spot. We have good roads but the immature drivers translate that availability of good roads into flying on the roads.

He didn't just sell lots and leave. He made sure there were roads and water there.

If we move away from the barge traffic, the expense we would have of creating new roads and rail to accommodate this traffic would be daunting.

If we needed the roads to be fixed, they said that's the city road, and the city would say that's the state's road. We just going back and forth between them. Now our senator said he's gonna see to it that they both do it.

If those roads are built, they're really going to change things. We aren't going to be the same place.

There is a misconception that older drivers are somehow a menace out on the road, and that really is not borne out by the facts. Thirty-year-olds kill far more people on the roads than 70-year-olds.

The rain has stopped so the situation is getting better ? there are now fewer roads that are covered with water.

There are no reports of widespread power outages, no problems with heating and that sort of thing. So just stay off the roads and everything should be fine.

His name in football circles in Hampton Roads is well-respected.

This was not money taken away from roads and bridges, so that's not the truth.

We took three cars, left at midnight and drove until 6 a.m., ... Everybody was leaving, and the roads were a mess.

Keep your car filled up. If you have a half a tank of gas, you could possibly get out of harm's way. During the evacuation from Katrina, a lot of people started running out of gas. Then they had to close roads to try to bring tankers to fill them up.

My start position gave me an advantage over Marcus this morning because the roads were cleaner. The altitude sapped engine power and that made it tricky in corners because there wasn't the same power available as normal to pull the car through the bends. I was surprised how rough it was and I hit a lot of stones. The brakes worked well but they were on the limit in this heat. The thinner air meant they didn't cool in the same way as they would elsewhere.

Marshall Road is one of the most highly-traveled roads in the township, ... The situation there is deplorable ... bumper-to-bumper traffic every morning and evening. Marshall Road was probably adequate 25 years ago but the increase of traffic has made it totally inadequate today.

Mark this well, the laws of economics are the last thing the roads booster is thinking about

That came from the need in Europe, when they started building ring roads around Milan, Paris and London.

Some people believe that if the helicopters stop tomorrow, we will just continue the deliveries by truck, this may not be practical in all instances. The road situation is just too dangerous and roads are often blocked.

recognized that Utah and Nevada should be united against the arrogance of the East Coast dumping its waste on the West. We still have never addressed the transportation risks, whether on the roads or rails to Skull Valley or Yucca Mountain. That is why this lethal cargo should stay where it is until an acceptable disposal solution can be found.

Statistics received indicate that in just 30 days we lost some 1162 people on our roads. This means the country has been losing 39 people every day to car accidents. Even viewed against war scenarios such as the current war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the casualties on our roads come out worse.

Our knowledge and all of our ideas are mutually connected; the more complicated they are, the more numerous must be the roads that lead to them and depart from them.

People need to use public transportation because our roadways are overloaded with cars. Roads appear to be like parking lots.

I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development on (Ga. Highway) 124 had not occurred.

I see attempts in other Caribbean countries to improve their physical infrastructure, but yet we have to drive on some of the worse roads in the Caribbean especially in the rural areas of St Philip, St John, and parts of St Lucy.

I think what we are looking at here are exit roads from the middle class.

I think we're well-prepared for the worst possible situation. We're expecting some icy roads in the morning.

Just as bridges and roads crumble without adequate investment, so are the Great lakes deteriorating.

Just getting the roads fully open in both directions is a priority now, but that will only be a temporary fix. This summer, crews will be back up their working on more permanent solutions.

Our helicopters cannot operate as visibility is zero, and we're also having problems delivering food by roads as they have been completely washed out. As soon as the weather is fine and we are given the go-ahead to use helicopters, we won't take a minute more than necessary to move.

People are actually running out of fuel, ... Unfortunately, the roads are blocked now, in essence.

It hasn't always been easy. We've had bumps in the roads both years. We've won some games we weren't supposed to win, and we've lost some games we were supposed to win. But in the end, the last two years, we won the last game to get into the playoffs. So from that standpoint, we put the expectations on ourselves. We expect to win.

I still think it's a relatively fertile investing environment. There are better roads ahead and the market is generally going to try to consolidate and deal with a slowing economy.

It is clear that all roads lead to al Qaeda and pinpoint Osama bin Laden as having been involved in it.

It is clear that the workmanship in some of these roads is very poor. They have to be maintained every time after the rainy season, which indeed is such a costly exercise to government and it is totally unsustainable.

Lawson proceeded to express his disdain for consulting engineers and the cabinet's design engineers. Lawson stated that he had been building roads in Eastern Kentucky for many years, and he knew better than anybody what needed to be built.