162 Quotes About Wheels

Further still, there were numerous machines on wheels and tracks and treads, pushed and powered by steam, creaking and heaving as they moved, dripping oil, the blood of industrial war.

Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency. Since 1818, the city had spread out along the river, warehouse by warehouse, factory by factory. Judge Woodward's wheels had been squashed, bisected, pressed into the usual rectangles.

The maiden with her wheel of oldSat by the fire to spin,While lightly through her careful holdThe flax slid out and in.To-day, her distaff, rock and reelFar out of sight are hurled,For now the maiden with her wheelGoes spinning round the world.

The fly sat upon the axel-tree of the chariot-wheel and said, What a dust do I raise!

Life is like a chariot-wheel that ever rolls along.

The greatest inventors are unknown to us. Someone invented the wheel - but who?

I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.

If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Karma brings us ever back to rebirth, binds us to the wheel of births and deaths. Good Karma drags us back as relentlessly as bad, and the chain which is wrought out of our virtues holds as firmly and as closely as that forged from our vices.