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Vehicle Quotes

Where ambition meets the road.

These vehicle quotes look past the literal machine to ask what actually carries us forward, echoing the line that persistence is the Movement you arrive in.

Ambition is the path to success, persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.

Quotes by William Eardley IV

I say that Medicaid isn't the only vehicle to be able to purchase coverage or be able to have coverage.

Quotes by Tom Price

Am I simply a vehicle for numerous bacteria that inhabit my microbiome? Or are they hosting me?

Quotes by Timothy Morton

Hip-hop is a vehicle.

Quotes by Talib Kweli

Emotion Quotes

For me, I never really wanted to be in a 'Sissy Spacek' vehicle. That was not my intention. I got to be the 'Everygirl.'

Quotes by Sissy Spacek

Several witnesses describe seeing an altercation in the car between Mr. Brown and Officer Wilson. It was described as wrestling, tug-of-war. Several other witnesses described Mr. Brown as punching Officer Wilson while Mr. Brown was partially inside the vehicle.

Quotes by Robert P. McCulloch

I thought it was going to take a lot more countdowns on the pad. We actually did scrub once, but I figured we'd scrub several times since it's a pretty complicated vehicle.

Quotes by Robert Crippen

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Quotes by Robert Crippen

The Tube is a vehicle for selling things, not for exploring ideas.

Quotes by Phil Donahue

Function Quotes

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Quotes by Mark Knopfler

After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.

Quotes by Mark Knopfler

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

Quotes by Marisa Tomei

Basically I'm an entertainer and I use football as my vehicle.

Quotes by Lee Corso

Vehicle emissions standards directly sparked the development and application of a wide range of automotive technologies that are now found throughout the global automobile market.

Quotes by Keith Ellison

Identity Quotes

Even if we wanted to imbue an autonomous vehicle with an ethical engine, we don't have the technical capability today to do so.

Quotes by Karl Iagnemma

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

Quotes by John Podhoretz

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

Quotes by John Olver

I used the Internet as a vehicle to get places not many people did before.

Quotes by Jeffree Star

The N.Y.C. tech scene is vibrant, and Betabeat will be a great vehicle to cover it in depth.

Quotes by Jared Kushner

Movement Quotes

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

Herman Melville

Frequently Asked Questions

What do vehicle quotes on this page focus on?
They mix literal references to cars and transport technology with figurative uses, where a vehicle stands in for the method or path that carries a person toward a goal.
Is a vehicle always literal transportation in these quotes?
No. Several quotes use it figuratively, such as persistence being called the vehicle someone arrives in, or a body being described as a vehicle for the bacteria within it.
Do any quotes discuss vehicles and health policy?
Yes, one quote uses vehicle in the sense of a means of access, referring to Medicaid as a vehicle for purchasing coverage rather than the only option available.
Are there quotes about vehicle emissions or technology?
Yes, one quote credits vehicle emissions standards with sparking a wide range of automotive technology now common across the global automobile market.
Where can I read more quotes about ambition and persistence?
For more on the drive that keeps people moving toward a goal, see the related Movement collection.

From emissions standards to the body as a vehicle for something larger, these lines treat "vehicle" as both object and metaphor, sitting well beside Function and Identity quotes.