Highway Travel Map

Famous quotes containing the words highway, travel and/or map:

    “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)

    “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    —Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    “Unless, governor, teacher inspector, visitor,
    This map becomes their window and these windows
    That open on their lives like crouching tombs
    Break, O break open,”
    —Stephen Spender (1909–1995)