90 Commuting Quotes
Following is our list of commuting quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about work freedom.
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Famous Commuting Quotes
I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district. — Greg Walden
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting. — Ben Bernanke
Thousand-dollar-an-hour New York professionals who pay $50 an hour for a car and driver so they can work while they commute understand clearly the monetary value of their time. — Edward O. Thorp
You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure. — Margaret Thatcher
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still? — J. Paul Getty
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. — John Updike
As a native Staten Islander, it is very frustrating commuting to Manhattan. — James Murray
I'm not a car guy. The subway gets me where I need to go efficiently and cheaply, and I don't worry about traffic. — Joe Scarborough
Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel. — John Ruskin
Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor — Seneca
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym. — Bill Nye
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca. — Anthony Bourdain
The advantages? Exercise, no parking problems, gas prices, it's fun. An automobile is expensive. You have to find a place to park and it's not fun. So why not ride a bicycle? I recommend it. — Stephen Breyer
Let's have a moment of silence for all those who are stuck in traffic on their way to the gym to ride stationary bicycles. — Tommy Wood
Public transportation is for jerks and lesbians. — Matt Groening
Short Commuting Quotes
- I might have to commute. You know, left field, DH, wherever. — Mickey Rivers
- The longer you commute the less happy you're likely to be. — Geoff Mulgan
- The Boeing 747 is the commuter train of the global village. — Hendrik Tennekes
- A commuter tie-up consists of you — and people who for some reason won't use public transit. — Robert Breault
- Horses are in our DNA. We used them way before cars for commuting. — Randeep Hooda
- I've spent so many years commuting, I kind of prefer a home office. — Hillary Clinton
- I love commuting between languages just like I love commuting between cultures and cities. — Elif Shafak
- I don't see traffic fines as a substitute for a commuter tax. — Robert James Thomson
- Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train. — Ken Kesey
- ... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards. — John C. Baez
Work Journey Quotes
Success is not a destination: It is a journey. The happiest people I know are those who are busy working toward specific objectives. The most bored and miserable people I know are those who are drifting along with no worthwhile objectives in mind. — Zig Ziglar
Our work is to make ourselves visible in the world. This is the soul's individual journey, and the soul would much rather fail at its own life than succeed at someone else's. — David Whyte
Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey. — Urijah Faber
It took a lot of time and constant feedback to realize what wasn't working in my life, and it will be an ongoing journey until the day I die. — Lewis Howes
Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey. — Pope Francis
As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken. Artists sense within their own work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion. — Jasper Johns
These three things-work, will, success-fill human existences. Will opens the door to success, both brilliant and happy. Work passes these doors, and at the end of the journey success comes in to crown one's efforts. — Louis Pasteur
The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small. — Adlai E. Stevenson
I'm the walkingest girl around. I like to work at it - really get my heart pounding. — Amy Yasbeck
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile. — Earl Nightingale
Work Freedom Quotes
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty. — Chief Joseph
The liberation of the earth, the liberation of women, the liberation of all humanity is the next step of freedom we need to work for, and it's the next step of peace that we need to create. — Vandana Shiva
Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. — John F. Kennedy
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends. — Friedrich Engels
All of us in the academy and in the culture as a whole are called to renew our minds if we are to transform educational institutions-and society-so that the way we live, teach, and work can reflect our joy in cultural diversity, our passion for justice, and our love of freedom. — Bell Hooks
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland. — James Connolly
...let us continue to work together to develop and nurture in future generations a culture of human rights, to promote freedom, security and peace in all nations. — Kofi Annan
If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class! — Mother Jones
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
People Writing About Commuting
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
|---|---|---|
 Greg Walden |
26 | 435 |
 Ben Bernanke |
84 | 428 |
 Edward O. Thorp |
40 | 1 |
 Margaret Thatcher |
490 | 3658 |
 J. Paul Getty |
57 | 1159 |
 John Updike |
344 | 2107 |
More Commuting Quotes
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. — Brock Yates
The idea for 'Awakened' came to me one night on my long commute home to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The subway station was empty and eerily quite, and I could barely see into the darkened tunnel ahead. The further I peered, the darker the tunnel became. I wondered what could live in there... or under there. — James Murray
In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role. — Sarah Chalke
It's hard to overstate how much joy I've gained from removing a daily commute and team meetings from my work life. — Steven Bartlett
You have to begin to ask yourself which components of my belief system are things that I arrived through naturally from my observation of nature, and which parts of them are placed into me by a system that is designed to turn people into consumers. And I think more often than not that a greater percentage of your personality is not you at all. It’s a tapestry that has been cleverly woven by a system designed to make people feel totally normal spending the majority of their lives driving in a commute and working in a sh*t job and being tired all the time. — Duncan Trussell
I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. — Diane Cilento
I am haunted by the demon of error - error in determining guilt and error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die. — George Ryan
No reason to feel depressed about being depressed. A depression can be a golden opportunity to collect the pieces and build ourselves anew. Global Souls are always on the move, nomads at heart, connected to various cities, commuters between cultures, both from here and everywhere. — Elif Safak
Tell the story that's been growing in your heart, the characters you can't keep out of your head, the tale story that speaks to you, that pops into your head during your daily commute, that wakes you up in the morning. — Jennifer Weiner
After endless days of commuting on the freeway to an antiseptic, sealed-window office, there is a great urge to backpack in the woods and build a fire. — Charles Krauthammer
The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less. — David Brooks
I love Australia. My dream would be to have a place to live there and be able to commute back and forth — Sarah Michelle Gellar
I never saw myself so much as an actor. I wanted to be a cartoonist like Charles M. Schulz and create my own world and be able to have a studio at home and not commute and be able to be with my family. — Mark Hamill
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings. — Clifton Fadiman
I don't drive often, because the parking makes it too much of a nuisance. And I could never go back to commuting or anything. I'd just get fed up with it. — Raymond Pettibon
I thought of killing myself but soon decided that I could always try MIT and then kill myself later if it was that bad but that I couldn't commit suicide and then try MIT afterwards. The two operations, suicide and going to MIT, don't commute. — Murray Gell-Mann
As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.' — Tom Vanderbilt
Cookie had taken her daughter amber to school then walked the thirty-something feet to work earlier. Our business was on the second floor of Calamity's, my dad's bar, which sat right in front of our apartment building. The short commute was nice and rarely invloved rabid raccoons. — Darynda Jones
If mass media, social isolation in the suburbs, alienating workplaces and long car commutes create a bunker mentality, the Internet does the opposite. — Alex Steffen
I was commuting three to four hours a day, I had jobs for much of it. But I was always involved in going to some ensemble someplace. Taking my lessons at the local Jewish community center on Staten Island. — Jon Gordon
I can only speak about my own commute and can say that it has certainly affected my commute, making it longer and more hectic. — William Bennett
The thing about commuting internationally is that you have to be a lawyer or an airline steward to do it successfully. — Joan Juliet Buck
[Commuting by bicycle is] an absolutely essential part of my day. It's mind-clearing, invigorating. I get to go out and pedal through the countryside in the early morning hours, and see life come back and rejuvenate every day as the sun is coming out. — James L. Jones
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. — E. B. White
Our capitol punishment system is haunted by the demon of error- error in determining guilt, error in determining who among the guilty deserves to die... The legislation couldn't reform it. Lawmakers won't repeal it. I won't stand for it. I had to act... I am commuting the sentences of all death row inmates. — George Ryan
I go out of my way to stay off commuter planes. I have skipped conferences because I would not fly on marginal airlines (and because of many mishaps, I also avoided flying on ValuJet). — Mary Schiavo
We're taught that domestic life is not a "serious" political topic, like war and peace, but the fact is that we spend most of our lives doing everyday things: at the dinner table, in the kitchen, washing dishes, grocery-shopping, commuting. These things make up the fabric of our lives. — Annia Ciezadlo
... The approach of von Neumann and Connes to the use of non-commutative algebra in physics is naive, the situation is much more complicated. — Israel Gelfand
In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket. — Richard Armour
Middle Age connotes fat, cancer, bad musical taste, and death. It conjures up a commuter in the sixties going to a Neil Simon play in Sansabelt pants, a knit vest, balding, belly sagging - and then there's the men. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller
No one likes doing chores. In happiness surveys, housework is ranked down there with commuting as activities that people enjoy the least. Maybe that's why figuring out who does which chores usually prompts, at best, tense discussion in a household and, at worst, outright fighting. — Emily Oster
By using vertical space more effectively, you not only make more room for greenery but shorter commutes also mean less pressure on CO2 emission problems and by freeing up time now spent on unproductive commuter trains, people would have more options in their lives. — Minoru Mori
I think with more electric vehicles on the road, hopefully we'll still be able to drive some fantastic sports cars with big V8s, or V10s, or even V12s. Why not? If we can find a way to balance the automotive world, where ultimately, when we have most of the commuters drive electric cars, then we won't really have any issue with some sports cars driving around. — Henrik Fisker
The people I have no feeling for are professional killers. But I count that man no worse than a governor who won't commute a death sentence because it's unpolitical. — F. Lee Bailey
What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump. — Frederick Lenz
I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. — John Kenneth Galbraith
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