
“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.”
Source: On the Road
Quoted in Rita Dove, "Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution," http://www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/parks01.html Time (1999-06-14)by kurtis
“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.”
Source: On the Road
Source: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), Ch. 6 : The Bus
Context: There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
“Arrest me for sitting on a bus? You may do that.”
"Seeing It Through", London Transport poster by Eric Kennington (1944).
“Erdogan once said that democracy for him is a bus ride. “Once I get to my stop, I’m getting off."”
King Abdullah II of Jordan
Quoted by Jeffrey Goldberg, Bloomberg News, July 4, 2013. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-04/good-riddance-to-brotherhood-s-fake-democrats.html
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“I wasn't aiming at the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.”
Variant: I wasn't aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway. - Percy Jackson (Lightning Thief)
Source: The Lightning Thief
Switzer on Oklahoma 79-10 defeat of North Texas in 2007. [Another BCS nightmare may be brewing, http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dufresne10sep10,0,4827957,full.column, LATimes.com, 2007-09-10, 2007-09-10, Chris, Dufresne]