Henry Allingham Quotes

I love driving my car on any highway.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

I don't know how to drive a car.

A car just gets me from A to B. I really don't spend that much time driving.

We now think it hilarious that medieval streets were used as open sewers. Equally, our descendants will say: 'You won't believe this, but people were once allowed to hurl a couple of tons of dangerous metal around smashing into each other.'

I don't do much driving - about 5,000-6,000 miles a year. And most of that is to the airport and to the racing circuits.

I regret not learning to drive when I was younger.

The car is not a rabbit or a deer that jumps around in sweeping lines, but it is a man-made work of technology in need of an appropriate roadway.

I hate cars.

A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.

The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.

Once a rider [of an early automobile] is accustomed to the piston beat and the rattle of gears, he minds them no more than the pounding of horses hoofs in ordinary driving.

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.

We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.

I've never been someone who loves a car and when I was young I didn't have the ambition of a car or something like that.

Obviously I rely on my driving.

When the car was introduced in 1908, people could experience a brand new way to travel that was more efficient than a horse and buggy. Can you believe that cities tried to outlaw cars in the United States? Can you imagine driving a car for a year then having to go back to a horse and buggy?

I'm a fast driver.

I would... learn how to drive... have a nice car... and drive it.

I'm one guy who loves to drive to work.

When the 55 mph speed limit came in and the oil crisis caused fuel rationing, the truckers began to look like the last American cowboys.

I was never really keen to drive. I was always chauffeured around.

No major technological change has ever been instituted by mankind without an array of negative consequences. The motor car has meant liberation for millions, but it has also caused congestion, environmental damage, and a disturbing death toll on the roads.