Wendell Berry Quotes

Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks.

At least in Phoenix, you can get off the main highways and take side streets to where you want to go. In L.A., you can't. You're stuck.

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

We do not build speedways, but roads which correspond to the character of the German landscape.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

I know well the opportunities and the challenges of maintaining and improving infrastructure and providing good transportation choices.

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

I don't think the state of California realized there would be this many people here caught up in the freeway system.

The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

Cities are created by and for traffic.

If we are to avail ourselves fully of the benefits of civil aviation, and if we are to use the automobiles we can produce, it will be necessary to construct thousands of airports and to overhaul our entire national highway system.

No one ever built an interstate highway system before

The Middle Way included the largest public works project in American history: the Interstate Highway system, which updated American roads for a driving generation with leisure time on their hands, but expanded the federal government's purview.

Surface streets are probably a hundred to a thousand times more complicated than highways.

Fly ash helps create longer-lasting and stronger concrete for use in roads, bridges, runways, and rail transit.

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

On the spending, don't forget bridges and roads. It's like puppies and ice cream - who doesn't like them?

We think all over this country we need to rebuild everything from transit, fiber optic broadband in our rural areas and urban areas.

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

Numbersign questionmark you" and "Asterisk exclamation point the world.

I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

Whoever established the high road, and how high it should be, should be fired.