28 Quotes About Highways

We shall overcome every barrier by divine grace.

...America was supposed to be a place ruined and homogenized by highways, that that was its unique character, crass and vulgar sameness.

Faster is fatal, slower is safe.

You can't take highways during the apocalypse, because they'll be packed with panicky people.

Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.

I have never wanted to punch a highway in the face as badly as I do right now.

What is the American fetish about highways?They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers.Because something is after them, Black Herman adds.But what is after them?They are after themselves. They call it destiny. Progress.

They leave the insistent monotony of the interstate for more reasonable roads. While the former slices its path through entire states, peppering them with exit signs and mile markers, these lesser cousins of the grand highways keep their manners intact, clinging gently to the hemlines of all but the most obstinate geological points of interest. Charming and sometimes a bit frightening, their paths are as unpredictable and winding as a little boy's route home from school.

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.