“Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel!”
Kenneth Grahame
DrivingPassion
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200 FAMOUS QUOTES · CAR
Car Quotes
Read 200 of the best car quotes about driving, speed, road trips and the open road, from Henry Ford, The Wind in the Willows, Walt Whitman and more.
“Here to-day - in next week to-morrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped - always somebody else's horizon!”
Kenneth Grahame
Road TripAdventure
“O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!”
Kenneth Grahame
FunnyJoy
“What dust-clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way!”
Kenneth Grahame
SpeedAdventure
“The motor-car went Poop-poop-poop, as it raced along the road.”
Kenneth Grahame
FunnySpeed
“I will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family but small enough for the individual to run and care for.”
Henry Ford
InnovationVision
“It will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one - and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces.”
Henry Ford
FamilyFreedom
“The way to make automobiles is to make one automobile like another automobile, to make them all alike, to make them come through the factory just alike.”
Henry Ford
ManufacturingEfficiency
“Excess weight kills any self-propelled vehicle.”
Henry Ford
EngineeringDesign
“Everything can always be done better than it is being done.”
Henry Ford
ImprovementInnovation
“Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.”
Henry Ford
TimeEfficiency
“I refuse to recognize that there are impossibilities.”
Henry Ford
PossibilityInnovation
“Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.”
Henry Ford
Self-RelianceWork
“Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.”
Henry Royce
EngineeringPerfection
“Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble.”
Henry Royce
CraftsmanshipWork
“The love of inventing never dies.”
Karl Benz
InventionPassion
“With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization.”
Booth Tarkington
ProgressSociety
“They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace. I think men's minds are going to be changed in subtle ways because of automobiles.”
Booth Tarkington
ChangeHistory
“It was a rich cream color, bright with nickel, swollen here and there in its monstrous length with triumphant hat-boxes and supper-boxes and tool-boxes.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Classic CarsLuxury
“It takes two to make an accident.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
DrivingResponsibility
“To George F. Babbitt, as to most prosperous citizens of Zenith, his motor car was poetry and tragedy, love and heroism.”
Sinclair Lewis
Car LoveStatus
“Nothing has spread socialistic feeling in this country more than the use of the automobile.”
Woodrow Wilson
HistorySociety
“The motor-car has restored the romance of travel.”
Edith Wharton
Road TripRomance
“Freeing us from all the compulsions and contacts of the railway, it has given us back the wonder, the adventure and the novelty which enlivened the journeys of our grandparents.”
Edith Wharton
FreedomAdventure
“We can pull and haul and push and lift and drive, we can print and plough and weave and heat and light.”
Rudyard Kipling
MachinesPower
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About Car Quotes
Few inventions have changed daily life as much as the car. It gave people freedom to travel, turned roads into adventures and made "the open road" a symbol of independence. From the first motor-cars to today's machines, drivers have always felt something special behind the wheel.
This collection brings together 200 of the best car quotes about driving, speed, road trips and the joy of the journey, from Henry Ford, Kenneth Grahame's Mr. Toad, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman and Robert Louis Stevenson. Whether you love classic cars, long drives or simply the feeling of the open road, these quotes are for you.
Frequently asked questions
Quick answers about Car quotes.
What is the most famous quote about cars?
Mr. Toad's cry of "The poetry of motion! The real way to travel!" from The Wind in the Willows is one of the most famous early car quotes. Henry Ford's promise to "build a motor car for the great multitude" is another landmark line from automotive history.
What did Henry Ford say about cars?
In his 1922 memoir My Life and Work, Ford explained his dream of a car affordable enough for any working family to enjoy "God's great open spaces." He also believed that everything could always be done better and that excess weight is the enemy of any vehicle.
What are good quotes about road trips?
Walt Whitman's "Allons! the road is before us!" and Edith Wharton's line that the motor-car "restored the romance of travel" are perfect for road trips. Robert Louis Stevenson's "The great affair is to move" is another favourite.
What are funny car quotes?
Mr. Toad's "O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!" is a classic, and the Bible's description of Jehu, who "driveth furiously," is often shared as the world's oldest joke about fast driving.
What are good car quotes for Instagram captions?
Try "The poetry of motion," "The great affair is to move," "Strong and content I travel the open road," or "Allons! the road is before us!" They work well with car, road-trip and travel photos.
Why do people love cars so much?
For many people, a car means freedom, independence and adventure. As Sinclair Lewis wrote in Babbitt, a car can feel like "poetry and tragedy, love and heroism," a personal space and a symbol of who we are.