Quotations / The Crittenden Automotive Library

The Quotes section is for general quotes and Quotations about automobiles. Quotes about specific automotive topics or by persons in the automobile industry or motorsports can be found on their topic page.

"[There are] only two classes of pedestrians in these days of reckless motor traffic - the quick and the dead." Lord Dewar (from Looking Back on Life, 1933)

"Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." Lewis Mumford (from The Culture of Cities, 1938)

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car." E.B. White (from One Man's Meat, 1944)

"The car has become a secular sanctuary for the individual, his shrine to the self, his mobile Walden Pond." Edward McDonagh (from an article in Time, May 1963)

"The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound." Marshall McLuhan (from Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964)

"Climbing into a hot car is like buckling on a pistol. It is the great equalizer." Henry Gregor Felsen (from To My Son - The Teenage Driver, 1964)

"Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one." Evan Esar (from 20,000 Quips and Quotes, 1968)

"Many of the temporary standards are unreasonable, arbitrary and technically unfeasible...if we can't meet them when they are published, we'll have to close down. If we have to close down some production lines because they don't meet the standards, we're in for real trouble in this country." Henry Ford II (on new safety regulations that were to take effect on January 1, 1968 as set in the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act)

"Americans like to blast along over interstate highways at eighty miles an hour in big cars with every kind of power attachment, windows up, air conditioning on, radio going, one finger on the wheel. That's what they want, and that's what they buy, and that's what we manufacture. We build the best cars we can to meet the taste of the American people." Henry Ford II

"As you move away from mass transit you become more dependent on the automobile, so you have to spread the housing out more to accomodate the cars." Sandy Hornick (from an article in the New York Times, May 21, 1989)

"Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile." James Norman Hall

"It's all fun and games until someone has to be mopped up off of the concrete with a sponge." Bill Crittenden, in December 2007, regarding Cannonball-style cross country races.

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