Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.
— Woody Guthrie
Most Powerful Hitch Ride quotations
Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking.
You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective centrality of knowledge in the cosmic scheme of things.
Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it.

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly.
[Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby.
..Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.
Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.