“I'm the terror of the highway!”
Kenneth Grahame
FunnySpeed
Car Quotes
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.
“The clever men at Oxford know all that there is to be knowed. But they none of them know one half as much as intelligent Mr. Toad!”
Kenneth Grahame
FunnyConfidence
“Beyond the Wild Wood comes the Wide World.”
Kenneth Grahame
AdventureExploration
“Take the Adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes!”
Kenneth Grahame
AdventureCourage
“Nothing seems really to matter, that's the charm of it. Whether you get away, or whether you don't; whether you arrive at your destination or whether you reach somewhere else, or whether you never get anywhere at all.”
Kenneth Grahame
JourneyFreedom
“You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford
ActionReputation
“Automobiles are a useless nuisance. They had no business to be invented.”
Booth Tarkington
FunnyHistory
“Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, it will vanish and the stars will shine again.”
Rudyard Kipling
MachinesHope
“From coupler-flange to spindle-guide I see Thy Hand, O God - predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.”
Rudyard Kipling
EnginesEngineering
“Who hath smelt wood-smoke at twilight?”
Rudyard Kipling
Road TripNostalgia
“On the road to Mandalay, where the flyin'-fishes play.”
Rudyard Kipling
JourneyAdventure
“I think heroic deeds were all conceiv'd in the open air.”
Walt Whitman
Open RoadCourage
“The earth, that is sufficient, I do not want the constellations any nearer.”
Walt Whitman
ContentmentOpen Road
“You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here.”
Walt Whitman
JourneyWonder
“Camerado, I give you my hand!”
Walt Whitman
CompanionshipRoad Trip
“Pioneers! O pioneers!”
Walt Whitman
AdventureCourage
“Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, nor a friend to know me; all I seek, the heaven above and the road below me.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Open RoadFreedom
“I should like to rise and go where the golden apples grow.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
WanderlustDreams
“To come down off this feather-bed of civilisation, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
AdventureTravel
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
Mark Twain
TravelOpen Mind
“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking.”
Henry David Thoreau
WalkingJourney
“I had rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.”
Henry David Thoreau
FreedomSimplicity
“Men think that it is essential that the Nation have commerce, and ride thirty miles an hour, without a doubt, whether they do or not.”
Henry David Thoreau
SpeedProgress
“For my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
AdventurePurpose
“Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ProgressInnovation