Henry Ford Quotes

My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.

I'm kind of against car culture - I've always been a cyclist.

My main form of exercise is my bike. I don't have a car, so I cycle everywhere.

I do not own a car, and my main form of travel to Westminster and in my constituency is by bicycle. I also take my bike on trains to meetings in other parts of the country, which enables me to see other cities and the other parts of the country.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

I don't have a motorcar, so I've got to know and be fairly fond of the buses.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.

I put headlights in Ford vans. I still drive a Ford.

If you had a carbon tax, you'd have less cars and more bicycles, more people getting around on foot and by public transport.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

I love cars, but I love bikes more.

I bike around New York City as a way of getting everywhere I need to go.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.

The ordinary horseless carriage is at present a luxury for the wealthy; and although its price will probably fall in the future, it will never, of course, come into as common use as the bicycle.

You could break our front with bicycles.

During the 1890s the middle classes and the wealthy began bicycle touring en masse. The result was the creation of a tourist service sector in the national economy. The building of these tourist services has been attributed to the automobile, but actually had its inception during the hegemony of the bicycle.

There are sound economic reasons for believing that a great epoch of air transportation is being born. A new industrial and commercial era is beginning with the airplane just as surely as new areas began with steamships, railroads, and automobiles…. It is truly the Age of the Air.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.

I didn't want to have to call a cab if I went to the supermarket. So I eventually got a bike, just a beach cruiser, and I rode that thing all over town. I rode it everywhere. I rode it in the rain, I rode it as much as I possibly could. Anytime I could afford the independence of the bike, I used the bike.

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.