#transport

If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ↗

— William Feather

#goods #land #liked #our #people

You can't understand a city without using its public transportation system. ↗

— Erol Ozan

#public-transit #transportation #travel #traveling-alone #urban

About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks. ↗

— Sherwood Boehlert

#cars #consumed #daily #light #oil

It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact. ↗

— Larry Page

#clean #clean energy #energy #generating #groups

In the industrial revolution Britain led the world in advances that enabled mass production: trade exchanges, transportation, factory technology and new skills needed for the new industrialised world. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#britain #enabled #exchanges #factory #industrial

I take the subway to work. I love mass transportation. ↗

— Shepard Smith

#i love #love #mass #subway #take

I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #bridges #deal #early #exchange

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. ↗

— Robert Hughes

#conveyed #evil #literal #made #transportation

My innovation involved taking an idea from the telecommunications and banking industries, and applying that idea to transportation business. ↗

— Frederick W. Smith

#banking #business #idea #industries #innovation

I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls. ↗

— Booth Tarkington

#technology #transportation #beauty