Highway Enters Town

Famous quotes containing the words highway, enters and/or town:

    The improved American highway system ... isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway ... he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson’s nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.
    Daniel J. Boorstin (b. 1914)

    Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are righteous, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless? Is it for your piety that he reproves you, and enters into judgment with you?
    Bible: Hebrew, Job 22:3-4.

    He builds a big town with his mouth, but not even a fly’s nest with his hands.
    —Estonian. Trans. by Ilse Lehiste (1993)