Top 100 Highway Quotes
#1. I don't know why people feel unhappy when the curve of a graph fails to keep going up, but they do. Even when we find something we'd like to reduce, such as highway fatalities, it doesn't always sound as though we had our heart in it.
E.B. White
#2. In ease of body and peace of mind, all the different ranks of life are nearly upon the same level, and the beggar who suns himself by the highway, possesses that security which kings are fighting for.
Adam Smith
#3. Middle school is like one of those highway restrooms in the middle of nowhere. It's dirty and smelly and it's crowded with strange people.
Anonymous
#4. My heart is like an open highway ... people come and go and sometimes they are just beside you and you dont know
Jon Bon Jovi
#5. A lifetime of yearning unwound before him like some lost and endless highway.
Kem Nunn
#6. On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
William Least Heat-Moon
#7. 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.
Anthony Foxx
#9. I like to get that roll and pitch. I really like to take the car out on the highway for a spin.
Ron James
#10. In April 1933, Willie's mother, Myrle, gave birth to him in a manger somewhere along the old highway between Waco & Dallas. There were angels in attendance that night. Some of them, no doubt, flying too close to the ground:
Kinky Friedman
#11. There are idle spots on every farm, and every highway is bordered by an idle strip as long as it is; keep cow, plow, and mower out of these idle spots, and the full native flora, plus dozens of interesting stowaways from foreign parts, could be part of the normal environment of every citizen.
Aldo Leopold
#12. If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.
Tom Althouse
#13. As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they're the broad highway to divinity
Aldous Huxley
#14. There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone
Jerry Garcia
#15. 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.
Betty Hill
#16. That's right-the striking thing about greenhouse gases is the diversity of sources that emit them. A herd of cattle belching can be worse than highway full of hummers.
Thomas L. Friedman
#17. Route 95 in Connecticut and New York is basically a series of construction areas masquerading as an interstate highway.
Harlan Coben
#18. 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.
Piper Perabo
#19. But as Ana pulled away on a west-bound highway with a werewolf riding shotgun and her thirst for blood calling yet again, she had this thought: Maybe a Misfit could never be normal, no matter how badly it wanted to.
Ayul Hendricks-Levy
#20. Also, Nathan, if you're listening, and I assume you are, I'm the best and only friend you've got. Give her permission to share what she has, or I swear to God I'll have you turning tricks out of a prefab shed on the side of the highway. I'm trying to save humanity here.
James S.A. Corey
#21. I'm not a Republican or a Democrat, but George Bush has just put us so greatly into debt; now Obama's going to make it even worse. So, it's basically highway robbery, and I think it's a tragedy.
Robert Kiyosaki
#22. Look, if you're driving down the highway at 120 miles an hour, I'd rather be behind the wheel than in the backseat.
Mark Wahlberg
#23. The issues of the day have never seemed more complicated, and yet the conversations over how to solve them increasingly resemble cars passing down a divided highway. Whizzing by without a glance.
Lester Holt
#24. I think that today, integration is the name of the game and not separating these things out, and not trying to find the razor's edge, the narrow path. There's a lot of lanes in the highway, the trick is not fall into the ditches on either side, like a one sided nihilism, nothing matters life.
Surya Das
#25. The Internet is the great highway of the modern communication, free and independent.
Katya Chamma
#26. It's a road," Corey said, pointing.
"A dirt road," Hayley muttered.
"So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?
Kelley Armstrong
#27. Imagine, my brother signed. Imagine if somebody built a bridge right outside our window and we could just walk across the highway and be on the other side.
Jacqueline Woodson
#28. off for the highest pass on the Pamir Highway
Tom Bruce
#29. Before London swallowed it whole, Camden Town was the fork in the road best known for a coaching inn called the Mother Red Cap. It served as a last-chance stop for beer, highway robbery and gonorrhoea before heading north into the wilds of Middlesex.
Ben Aaronovitch
#30. A few hundred yards ahead a Michelin post showed where a small parochial road crossed with the highway.
Ian Fleming
#31. Trails are relatively inexpensive. A splendid national network of all kinds of trails can be established at less cost than a few hundred miles of super highway.
Gaylord Nelson
#32. A Canadian woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday for causing two deaths in 2010 when she stopped her car on a Quebec highway to help a group of ducklings crossing the road.
Anonymous
#33. I became hypnotized by my own loneliness, unwilling to stop until my eyes wouldn't stay open anymore, watching the white line of the highway as though it was the last thing that connected me to the earth.
Paul Auster
#34. In England, there was scarcely an amount of order and protection to justify much national boasting. Daring burglaries by armed men, and highway robberies,
Charles Dickens
#35. The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.
Margaret Fuller
#36. Time slid from under me in drifts like ice skids on the highway, punctuated by sudden sharp flashes where my wheels caught and I was flung into ordinary time:
Donna Tartt
#37. How I snuffed that Tartar air!
how I spurned that turnpike earth!
that common highway all over dented with the marks of slavish heels and hoofs; and turned me to admire the magnanimity of the sea which will permit no records.
Herman Melville
#38. When you grow up in a city like Boston, where I grew up, a lot of kids became criminals or cops. I never really had a bad take on cops other than I hate when there's one behind me on the highway.
Donnie Wahlberg
#39. DEBORAH DROVE US SOUTH ON DIXIE HIGHWAY. YES, I did say "us." To my surprise, I had become a valuable member of the Justice League and was informed that I was being honored with the opportunity to put my irreplaceable self in harm's way.
Jeff Lindsay
#40. I am the highway and a peregrine and all the sails that ever went to sea
Robert James Waller
#41. Failure is ... the highway to success.
Og Mandino
#42. As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.
Kate Klise
#43. I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people - sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
Mick Jagger
#44. Once you have swung a pickax that will reveal the curve of a street four thousand years covered over which was once an active, much-traveled highway, you are never quite the same again.
Thornton Wilder
#45. The best way poor people can come out of their poverty is to get on the global highway, not on some dirt side road.
Iqbal Quadir
#46. The life of separation may be a path of sorrow, but it is the highway of safety; and though the separated life may cost you many pangs, and make every day a battle, yet it is a happy life after all.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#47. FYI, car crashes kill way more kids than cancer does. Those crosses you see on the side of the highway, the little white ones hung with fading silk flowers? They're for people my age. ("People who were texting," my dad liked to remind me - because he never wanted to blame Budweiser for anything.)
James Patterson
#48. They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.
Joyce Kilmer
#49. We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.
Bill McCartney
#50. I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.
Chris Rock
#51. The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#52. A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad
#53. I was on the highway - I saw the scariest thing in the world, man. I saw an Asian driving an SUV. Really, I just drove my car right into the guardrail, figured I'd save him some time.
Alonzo Bodden
#54. We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.
Mick Cornett
#55. Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.
Piers Anthony
#56. Life is a highway. I want to ride it all night long
Tom Cochrane
#57. I'm not waiting for times to change
I want to live like a free-roaming soul
on the highway of our love.
Neil Young
#58. Any highway ... they all take you to the same place, don't they?
Jodi Picoult
#59. Next thing I know I'm hiking that sweet, short skirt up over her sweet round ass, breaking my own rules, gonna screw a brunette, on the highway to Hell.
Karen Marie Moning
#60. If they're from the village, you take them to the inn. If they're from the city, you treat them with respect when they are beautiful and throw them on the highway when they are dead.
Voltaire
#61. My childhood is streets upon streets upon streets upon streets. Streets to define you and streets to confine you, with no sign of motorway, freeway or highway.
Morrissey
#63. Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
Edward Abbey
#64. It was extraordinary how tumultuous historical moments could be replayed right here in this ordinary little moment as she drove down the Pacific Highway
Liane Moriarty
#65. Life is like a highway. For give those who cut you off and ekep On. Driving
A. Waley
#66. The view of the highway was so bad that you could not even see the next viaduct. Te moment it loomed out of the mist it disappeared again, as if the world created itself and was blotted out again.
Janet Fitch
#67. Tennessee Williams, one of my favorite playwrights, [lived] down there. You always heard about the Keys and how amazing they are and, well, it's like a highway with some bars on it.
John Leguizamo
#68. I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo from 'Highway Star'. I always thought it was one of the most exciting guitar solos I'd ever played ...
Steve Morse
#69. I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bread by cities ... it is enough that i am surrounded by beauty.
Everett Ruess
#70. The stretch of Bruce Highway between Gin Gin and Miriam Vale was long and lonesome.
S.A. Tawks
#71. Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop.
Hunter S. Thompson
#72. If our spirit is submitted to the Holy Spirit, we will make choices according to the Father's will and stay on His highway.
Bonnie Jones
#73. By ten o'clock, the Sunday-night blues set in. The bleak wasteland of an entire week of stupefyingly boring school stretched ahead of me like an endless desert highway.
J.M. Steele
#74. Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
Charles Kuralt
#75. We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
Chogyam Trungpa
#76. The simple act of having a camera, not a cell phone, but a camera-camera, there's a kind of a heightened perceptional awareness that occurs. Like, I could walk from here to the highway in two minutes, but if I had a camera, that walk could take me two hours.
Jerry N. Uelsmann
#77. Men are the scourge of the universe. I say we line them all up along the highway and then mow them down with big trucks. No, wait! Steamrollers! Yeah, let's steamroll them all until they're nothing more than slimy wet spots on the road! (Chrissy)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#78. I have this soft spot for have-nots. So, I was really inclined to portray their pain and pathos in 'Highway.'
Randeep Hooda
#80. I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell
Imtiaz Ali
#81. I remember, as a kid, riding in the back of my dad's old Saab 95 in Denmark. We were on the highway, and suddenly this silver Maserati Bora came upon us, then passed. At the time, to me, this car looked like a spaceship.
Henrik Fisker
#82. Every symbol, word, concept, discipline and field is only a temporary rest stop on the highway of discovery.
Bryant McGill
#83. When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
Brownie McGhee
#84. Who can justify the expense of a six-lane highway through the middle of a small town that anticipates growth? Who would want such a road through their town?
Robert C. Martin
#85. In stories about life after death, the soul often floats above the good-bye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital-room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world.
Mitch Albom
#86. I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.
Greg Egan
#87. I think that he should keep a caravansary on the world's highway, where philosophers of all nations might put up, and on his sign should be printed, "Entertainment for man, but not for his beast. Enter ye that have leisure and a quiet mind, who earnestly seek the right road.
Henry David Thoreau
#88. Raccoons don't need to do poppers in order to come while they're having anonymous same-sex interludes in a highway rest area.
Doug Stanhope
#89. My driver Kellie Frost and I would race these fellows home and they were always faster on the highway. We did the same with Daniel and his driver, and thus began a long series of jokes and competitions to alleviate the impossible hours and tensions this film provoked.
Madeleine Stowe
#90. She was a big blonde woman with more curves than the highway out front and just the right number of hills and valleys.
Max Allan Collins
#91. When you've fallen on the highway / and you're lying in the rain, / and they ask you how you're doing / of course you'll say you can't complain ...
Leonard Cohen
#92. Laika says I'm not middle of the road. One time she said that I was the road. She said I was her post-apocalyptic highway.
Stefan Mohamed
#93. Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
Imtiaz Ali
#94. The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
Bill Dedman
#95. No, my friend. We are lunatics from the hospital up the highway, psycho-ceramics, the cracked pots of mankind. Would you like me to decipher a Rorschach for you?
Ken Kesey
#96. Well Lord, I'm still on the case. I'm still doing what Dr. King and Pops want me to do. I'm still on that freedom highway, and I'm going to walk on it until Dr. King's dream is realized.
Mavis Staples
#97. Years ago
I was an angry young man
I'd pretend
that I was a billboard
standing tall
by the side of the road
I fell in love
with the beautiful highway
David Byrne
#98. Tarring a highway in 90-degree heat is hard work. This is baseball. Something I love.
Todd Helton
#99. Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves to death with huge cars.
Hunter S. Thompson
#100. Bill could smell Its breath and it was a smell like exploded animals lying on the highway at midnight.
Stephen King
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