Automobiles In The 1920s Quotes & Sayings

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. — Seneca The Younger

A change in Quantity also entails a change in Quality — Friedrich Engels

During the 1920s the market for automobiles changed slowly and subtly. Henry Ford's slogan for the Model T - "It takes you there and brings you back" - epitomized the original attraction of the car as a mode of basic transportation. In 1921, more than half of all cars sold in the United States were Fords. But — Andrew S. Grove

Why did people fall in love?he wondered as he watched Rock and Doris pretend to do just that. Obviously, it made people ridiculous and not just in movies from the sixties. There had to be some basis in real life or no one would ever have made a silly comedy about love. Yeah, there were also movies about love that weren't comedies, but in those movies people acted ridiculous for a while and then someone announced the were going to die, or they had to go off to war, or oops I forgot to mention my wife. People stopped acting ridiculous and starting acting really serious and sad, sad because the ridiculous part was over. How could people want this foolishness in their lives? — Marshall Thornton

Forget the past, let the dead bury the dead. Things were working out fine, and that was the only thing he had to remember. — Robert Bloch

I didn't want to be like a punch-drunk fighter, going around and reliving the big moment ... — Greg Noll

Beautiful machines from 1920s and '30s, when automobiles were both monstrous and sexy at the same time. — Neal Shusterman

Jackson gazed deeply into his son's eyes as he prepared to tell him the reason why life was so easy and prosperous; the secret behind the most lucrative contracts in the country, including the government. He wanted to explain all of this to Jonathan, and he would, but he knew he'd have to journey back more than 150 years. — Herbert C. Robinson

Clothes can hide you from yourself but a bikini sure can't. — Diane Von Furstenberg

In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.' — William Osler

Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime. — Sam Sheppard