Transport Quotes

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. (John Boyd Orr)
Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together. View quote
Antoine de Saint Exupéry
I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light. View quote
Martha Beck
Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. View quote
Herman Gorter
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although-to the more imaginative at least-a slight dampness at the bottom of a carton, or an obscure code printed along a computer cable, may hint at processes of manufacture and transport nobler and more mysterious, more worthy of wonder and study, than the very goods themselves. View quote
Alain de Botton
It's one thing for a courier service transport letters and documents from one city to another at a cost that only big business can afford; but it's another thing to take a letter from an Indian boy studying at the University of Ottawa to his mother in Old Crow. View quote
Jean Chrétien
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. View quote
Odilon Redon
Sometimes you need to transport your idea to an empty landscape and then populate it with fantastic looking people. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
I can't remember [of a good regulation]. Regulation of transport, regulation of agriculture-agriculture is a, zoning is z. You know, you go from a to z, they are all bad. There were so many studies, and the result was quite universal: The effects were bad. View quote
Ronald Coase
To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. (Nikos Kazantzakis)
The capitalist distribution network, a complex chain of factory, transport, warehouse and retail outlet, is one of the greatest male accomplishments in the history of culture. View quote
Camille Paglia
I will have failed in this if in five years there are not many more people using public transport and far fewer journeys by car. It is a tall order but I want you to hold me to it. View quote
John Prescott
It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads. View quote
Flora Thompson
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport. View quote
Rohinton Mistry
Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building. View quote
Vladimir Putin
The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest, where all human things...have their beginnings; but the seed never explains the flower. View quote
Edith Hamilton
The earth has become one big village, with telephones laid on from one end to the other, and air transport, both speedy and safe. View quote
Wyndham Lewis
I think that once people understand the great risks that climate change poses, they will naturally want to choose products and services that cause little or no emissions of greenhouse gases, which means 'low-carbon consumption.' This will apply across the board, including electricity, heating, transport and food. View quote
Nicholas Stern
Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains. View quote
Anthony Albanese
I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. (Catherine Helen Spence)
We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common. View quote
Juliette Gordon Low
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems. View quote
Jaime Lerner
I've always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have access to in my regular life - like being a superhero! Also, I would always put on shows for my family and the neighbors; I guess I was an actor before I even knew it. View quote
Kandyse McClure
The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport. View quote
Laurent Fabius