Pacific Highway

Pacific Highway may refer to:

  • Pacific Highway (Australia) - Queensland/New South Wales Border-Sydney
  • Pacific Motorway - Brisbane - Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia)
  • Pacific Highway (U.S.), the name of several highways in the United States
    • Pacific Coast Highway (California), segments of State Route 1
  • British Columbia Highway 15, known locally as the Pacific Highway in Canada
  • Pacific Coastal Highway, a 15,200km highway along the Pacific Coast extending from Canada to ChilĂ©

Famous quotes containing the words pacific and/or highway:

    It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one’s being alone.... It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)