“Faster than fairies, faster than witches, bridges and houses, hedges and ditches.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
SpeedJourney
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.
“Home is the sailor, home from sea, and the hunter home from the hill.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
HomecomingJourney
“Away down the river, a hundred miles or more, other little children shall bring my boats ashore.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
JourneyChildhood
“There's real life for you, embodied in that little cart. The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs!”
Kenneth Grahame
Open RoadAdventure
“And mind! this is the very finest cart of its sort that was ever built, without any exception.”
Kenneth Grahame
FunnyPride
“You're a rotten driver. Either you ought to be more careful, or you oughtn't to drive at all.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
DrivingFunny
“Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune.”
Walt Whitman
ConfidenceOpen Road
“Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms.”
Walt Whitman
FreedomOpen Road
“The cheerful voice of the public road, the gay fresh sentiment of the road.”
Walt Whitman
Open RoadJoy
“Type of the modern - emblem of motion and power - pulse of the continent.”
Walt Whitman
MachinesPower
“I tramp a perpetual journey.”
Walt Whitman
JourneyWanderlust
“I like to see it lap the Miles - and lick the Valleys up.”
Emily Dickinson
SpeedMachines
“We are nothing more than children of your brain!”
Rudyard Kipling
MachinesInvention
“The Long Trail - the trail that is always new!”
Rudyard Kipling
Road TripAdventure
“I am become a name; for always roaming with a hungry heart.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
WanderlustTravel
“To follow knowledge like a sinking star, beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
ExplorationAmbition
“I sprang to the stirrup, and Joris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three.”
Robert Browning
SpeedAdventure
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
HistoryNight Ride
“A hurry of hoofs in a village street.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
SpeedUrgency
“Away went Gilpin, neck or nought.”
William Cowper
SpeedFunny
“And when he next doth ride abroad, may I be there to see!”
William Cowper
FunnyJourney
“Motions and Means, on land and sea at war with old poetic feeling.”
William Wordsworth
MachinesProgress
“Now, every fool in Buxton can be at Bakewell in half-an-hour, and every fool in Bakewell at Buxton.”
John Ruskin
SpeedFunny
“The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.”
Henry David Thoreau
TransportProgress
“When I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder.”
Henry David Thoreau
MachinesPower