Taking off Travel blog

I didn’t steal this idea. Honestly, I didn’t. I wanted to do a post on travel quotes, but when I did my research I found that Brave New Traveler had beaten me to it - twice! But I don’t give up easily, so here are some fun and interesting quotes about parking, riding and flying. Enjoy!

Park

• Somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’  So that was nice. - Tommy Cooper
• When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile. - Bob Edwards
• Restore human legs as a means of travel. Pedestrians rely on food for fuel and need no special parking facilities.- Lewis Mumford, urban planner
• I thought you said you were a good driver! - No no, I never said I was a good driver. I said I was a good parker. - from Seinfeld
• You stupid people! You’re parking on my memories! - Snoopy in Peanuts
• A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works. - Bill Vaughan

Ride

• A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. - Peter De Vries
• Walking isn’t a lost art - one must, by some means, get to the garage. - Evan Esar
• Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead. - Mac McCleary
• The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

Fly

• In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans. Erma Bombeck
• When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned upward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci
• I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.  -Antoine de Saint-Exupery
• The Wright brothers flew right through the smokescreen of impossibility.- Charles Kettering
• In the space age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours - one hour for flying and one hour to get to the airport. - Neil McElroy
• There are only two emotions in a plane:  boredom and terror. - Orson Welles

Thanks to QuoteGarden and BrainyQuote. (Photo: diciu)

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