Either Quote by Francis Parkman

The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It…

— Douglas Bader

Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a…

— Francis Parkman

The interstate highway system was built to get people from point A to point B as fast as possible. And they knocked down mountains…

— John Lasseter

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which…

— Max Beckmann

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stagecoach.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Day Seventy-Six Sixty Miles Northwest of Fort Collins Near Redington, Nebraska”

— Bobby Akart

“They entered Pennsylvania and the road grew smooth for a few hundred yards, like a good intention, before settling back to the old scabby,…

— Anne Tyler

“They rode out on the north road as would parties bound for El Paso but before they were even quite out of sight of…

— Cormac McCarthy

“All the confusion that characterized the cargo loading now attended the convergence of 34,000 soldiers on Hampton Roads. Troop trains with blinds drawn rolled…

— Rick Atkinson

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we…

— James Stockdale

So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to Fort Apache,…

— Frank Nugent

“Centuries old, but recently widened, the highway was the same road used by pagan armies, pilgrims, peasants, donkey carts, nomads, wild horsemen out of…

— Walter M. Miller Jr