Wagon Quotes

Or in the early days we didn’t have the bus, we had a station wagon.

When she was 16, my grandmother, Hannie Reed, drove a wagon in the Oklahoma land rush.

My grandmother on my mother’s side lived to nearly 100 years old, and she had seen Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show as a little girl and had come to Texas by covered wagon.

At this late hour a wagon has been procured, and I have had it filled with plate and the most valuable portable articles, belonging to the house.

I’m like a race horse attached to a freight wagon.

You want at least 5% of the population being serious. That five, 6% of the population carries the rest of the people. You’ve heard that old axiom: 5% of the people pull the wagon; 95% are in it.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

It’s hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

I started out with a carpet-cleaning business. Then I had a lunch wagon business, where you pull up and serve food. Then I had bars and then restaurants.

You have tremendous flexibility in defining both the greater good and the greater community. If you don’t succeed in this, then you will continue to pull that heavy wagon up the mountain, and despite the fact that you are pulling it, it will somehow run over your own foot.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon. But it’s nice to have a few bites of something you like. I’m not a sweets person, but I love pasta and pizza – oh, buddy!

With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.

I’ve gone on the wagon, but my body doesn’t believe it.

From the time I got dressed in the back of a deflated, flat-tired, fish-smelling station wagon for Rocky. It’s always been do it yourself, kind of like paper-clip it together.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

There have definitely been phases of the National, many years ago, where we did party, and various people, in their own way, fell off the wagon.

My first car was a Holden Commodore station wagon. I can’t remember much more about it than that – it was coffee colored, and I think it was four cylinders, so it was really quite weak, but very safe for a young man to be driving.

The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped their playing and stared in surprise at a wagon slowly creaking by on that road.

For something to be useful to the spirit is not very valuable to get your covered wagon across the desert. We have adopted that attitude so thoroughly that any American father whose son tells him he wants to write poetry will be embarrassed.

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

When people think of the West, it’s easy to envision wagon trains, Buffalo Bill, the glory days of the Gold Rush. Cowboy hats come to mind.

I think the best advice I ever got about acting was from my dad, which was, ‘If they don’t buy the fish on the first toss, throw it back in the wagon and go to the second house.’ Which is like an old Jewish fishmongers’ story about how you become a successful fish monger.

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did not need to take these, because Pa could always make new ones.

‘West To A Land Of Plenty’ shows a family heading west, first on board a train, and then going into areas as yet untamed by rail by way of an ox-drawn wagon.

That’s the key to win a lot of games: you have to pull the wagon together, and everybody has to give 100 per cent, and that’s how you’re going to win games.

I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, ‘How does he do that?’ He is not ‘doing’ anything, and yet everything is there.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.

We all fall off the wagon. It’s only one day; it’s not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

My first car was a ’56 Ford station wagon – cost 100 bucks.

Women are like cars: we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon.

I never hitched my wagon to anyone, so what I achieved over the years was done with only my results on the field.

Law enforcement’s biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the ‘paddy wagon.’ The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

With ‘Wagon Wheel,’ I loved the visual it painted, and it’s a song I can truly say I look forward to performing every night.

My parents moved out to California in 1968 from Ohio in a VW station wagon pulling a little trailer. I was 4 months old. They were following the energy out here.

I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss… I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it’s the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.

In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.