These driveway quotes will inspire you. A driveway is a type of private road for local access to one or a small group of structures and is owned and maintained by an individual or group.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging driveway quotes, driveway sayings, and driveway proverbs.
Best Driveway Quotes
- “I’m not a public figure at all. I don’t really go out a lot to places where there are people like those who sit at the bottom of your driveway.” ~ Catherine Keener
- “If he’s got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don’t hire him.” ~ Lou Holtz
- “When I read the pilot for Married with Children, it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe… just a self-deprecating kind of guy. Hed come home from work, and the wife would maybe say I ran over the dog this morning in the driveway. And he would say Fine, whats for dinner?” ~ Ed O’Neill
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“The road to success just might be your driveway.” ~ Joey Reiman
- “My neighbor has a circular driveway… he can’t get out.” ~ Steven Wright
- “I bought my son an indestructible toy. Yesterday he left it in the driveway. It broke my car.” ~ Milton Berle
- “Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.” ~ Luci Swindoll
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“Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Just to be silly!” ~ George Carlin
- “”…piling up zeros in your bank account, or cars in your driveway, won’t in and of itself make you successful. Rather, true success is based on a constant flow of giving and recieving. In fact, if you look up affluence in the dictionary, you’ll see its root is a Latin phrase meaning “to flow with abundance”. So in order to be truly affluent, you must always let what you have recieved flow back into the world.”” ~ Russell Simmons
- “Be able to back up a car for a considerable distance in a straight line and back out of a driveway.” ~ Marilyn vos Savant
- “I love home. I’ll stay up there for days on end, I won’t even go down the driveway to look for the mail.” ~ Dan Fogelberg
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“Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.” ~ John Cleese
- “This is what makes me happy: …Any music-free restaurant … A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and also fix my computer … An evening in bed with a good book. … A good night’s sleep … As you can see, it doesn’t take much to make me happy.” ~ Art Buchwald , Free driveway quotes
- “I want to have a family and I’d like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.” ~ Jennifer Ellison
- “Jesus and Paul were serious dudes. They had teeth missing. Jesus was a carpenter, Paul was in prison. These guys didn’t eat tofu dogs and bean sprouts. They didn’t play tennis. If there were trucks back in their times, they would have been doing driveway lube jobs on a Saturday afternoon. Same thing with King David. Yeah, he might have played a lyre, but he slaughtered thousands of guys.” ~ Mark Driscoll
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“Every time my brain parks the car neatly in the driveway, my mouth drives through the back of the garage.” ~ Dave Eggers
- “My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl’s grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That’s my real dream.” ~ J. Cole
- “When I was coming home from school as a youngster, and I saw my dad’s car in the driveway, I would go to a friend’s house. I connected my dad being there with fear.” ~ Joe Torre
- “You’re not allowed to park a truck in your driveway. You’re not allowed to work on your house on Sunday. The people who enforce these laws are nuts. After I wrote a column on this, I got I don’t know how many letters from Coral Gables homeowners, story after story after story, wonderfully horrible stories. And the venom they felt for their own government!” ~ Dave Barry
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“I lived in an attached house. My father used to drive into the wrong driveway all the time. He’d say, Damn it, how do you tell one of these houses from another?” ~ Paul Simon
- “I never seem to find what I’m looking for, though. I suppose I feel, these days, too aware of schedules and things, to let myself get lost in the rain. Anyway, I came back home, and it was still raining, and as I was approaching the driveway of the house, and the front garden with its bushy flower bed, I caught a cooking smell from somewhere on the air. I don’t know why, exactly, but it appealed to me as a Nagai Kafu moment.” ~ Quentin S. Crisp
- “Medgar Evers was assassinated in his driveway retuning from an NAACP meeting in downtown Jackson. And then you go back there years later, and the blood is still on the driveway. They cannot wash it away.” ~ John Lewis
- “Football, you can go out and buy a football and play it in your backyard. Basketball, you can go out and play it in the schoolyard or in your driveway. Baseball, you get a glove and a bat and a ball and you go out and play in the neighborhood. You can’t do that in hockey.” ~ Jeremy Roenick
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“I’m kind of a hermit. Left to my own devices, I won’t submerge myself in anything further afield than the driveway.” ~ John Darnielle
- “All of Dad’s relationships ended exactly the same: subpoena, beep of a moving van backing up the driveway, pile of his clothes burning on the front lawn.” ~ Christopher Titus
- “It’s like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over and says Hey, you moving? Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here’s your sign.” ~ Bill Engvall
- “She didn’t love me that much, but she moved in with me. That’s a plus. And then one night, I caught her making out with another dude on the driveway. That’s a minus.” ~ Greg Behrendt
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“You might be a redneck if your boat has not left the driveway in 15 years.” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
- “Whatever cleaning goes on on the planet, women do 99% of it. But see, women are not as proud of their 99% as men are of our one! We clean something up, we’re gonna talk about it all year long. It might be on the news, you don’t know. A woman could be out re-paving the driveway. Men actually have enough gall to run out on the porch and go “Hey baby? Man, it’s hot as hell out here, ain’t it! Look, don’t worry about emptyin’ that ashtray in the den, I done got it, all right? Did it for you, sweet pea. I’m gonna go take a nap now, all right?”” ~ Jeff Foxworthy
- “Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It’s not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.” ~ Henry Rollins
- “There are a lot of perks that come with fame and with every positive there’s a negative and then it all kind of balances out. The travelling is great. You get to see so many different places but there’s a downside; having everything splattered across every media resource that exists, being chased by photographers and have them sit at the end of your driveway every day. But it all kind of balances.” ~ Ashton Kutcher
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“Our date-nightrule is no talking about the kids. That lasts about to the end of the driveway.” ~ Paul Reiser
- “One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, “Where do you live?” I said, “Right here!” Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.” ~ Steven Wright
- “You’re thinking I’m one of those wise-ass California vegetarians who is going to tell you that eating a few strips of bacon is bad for your health. I’m not. I say its a free country and you should be able to kill yourself at any rate you choose, as long as your cold dead body is not blocking my driveway.” ~ Scott Adams
- “It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.” ~ Richard Yates
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“So I started shoveling Bob’s driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party” ~ Stephen Chbosky
- “Where did you go?” “To the end of the driveway,” my mother says. “I was nine months pregnant; that was the maximum distance I could waddle without feeling as if my uterus was falling out.” I wince. “Do you have to be quite so graphic?” “What would you like me to call it, Zoe? A fetal living room?” ~ Jodi Picoult
- “She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever. As she pulled into the driveway, she spotted Logan coming down the steps from the house, and she waved. She was his forever, too—imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was. As Logan walked toward her, he smiled as if reading her mind and opened his arms.” ~ Nicholas Sparks
- “All right.” He straightened up and seemed to be true to his promise to let it go. “I will be a man about this.” That lasted until he saw the scratches on the hood from the mountain lion and the front fender, Where Abigail had dragged it off the driveway. Wailing, he went to it and sank to his knees. He sprawled over the hood and laid his head on the damaged fender. “I’m so sorry, Bets. I should of hidden the keys. Booted your tires. Something. I had know idea anyone would hurt you so, baby. I swear I’ll never let anyone hurt you again. Ayyy, how could they do this to you? How? Oh the humanity!” ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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“The first snow always startles. It covers the tricycle in the driveway, turning its frame into an abstact sculpture that says: See how quickly yesterday turns into today.” ~ Peggy Noonan
- “When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn’t vast. It’s all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there’s a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy’s driveway connects with yours, and you’d be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.” ~ Donald Miller
- “This is the autumn of wonders, yet every day, every single day, I go back to that burned afternoon in August when T. Ray left. I go back to that one moment when I stood in the driveway with small rocks and clumps of dirt around my feet and looked back at the porch. And there they were. All these mothers. I have more mothers than any eight girls off the street. They are the moons shining over me.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
- “My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, “Hi, do you have any kids?” and then, “Why not, don’t you like kids?” “I like kids,” I will explain. “I like kids very much.” And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things.” ~ Lorrie Moore
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“It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many triumphs and tragedies, and all we see are yards and driveways.” ~ Glenn Close
- “She wondered: How could people respond to these images if images didn’t secretly enjoy the same status as real things? Not that images were so powerful, but that the world was so weak. It could be read, certainly, in its weakness, as on days when the sun baked fallen apples in orchards and the valley smelled like cider, and cold nights when Jordan had driven Chadds Ford for dinner and the tires of her Chevrolet had crunched on the gravel driveway; but the world was fungible only as images. Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.” ~ Jonathan Franzen
- “When they separated, the freckleless spot between Pete’s eyes was bright red. Before anything else could be said or done, May grabbed her bike and hopped on. She waited until she was six houses down to turn and see if he was still standing in the driveway watching her. He was. She stopped for just a moment, and they caught each other’s eyes. Then he slowly started walking backward toward the house. May couldn’t see that well, considering that her eyes were still a little blurry and he was far away, but it looked like he was smiling.” ~ Maureen Johnson
- “It’s amazing–my parents call everything a discussion. If I were standing across the street, firing a bazooka at my mother, while my father was launching mortar back at me, and Jeffery was charging down the driveway with a grenade in his teeth, my parents would say we should stop having this public “discussion”.” ~ Jordan Sonnenblick
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“Dan was heading for the blue car in the driveway. He tossed Amy the car keys. “Don’t drive like you! Make it fast!” ~ Peter Lerangis
- “There are random moments – tossing a salad, coming up the driveway to the house, ironing the seams flat on a quilt square, standing at the kitchen window and looking out at the delphiniums, hearing a burst of laughter from one of my children’s rooms – when I feel a wavelike rush of joy. This is my true religion: arbitrary moments of of nearly painful happiness for a life I feel privileged to lead.” ~ Elizabeth Berg
- “She sits in the driveway, freezing, for thirty-six minutes. Arguing with herself. Because she thinks she’s in love with him too. And there are two ways she can be a fool in love right now. She chooses the harder one. And knocks on the door.” ~ Lisa McMann
- “I rode it once, which was up the driveway in the opening credits of the show. I didn’t know how to stop it. I actually nearly killed the director of photography, and I smashed into the sound truck.” ~ Henry Winkler
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“Anyway, seeking work is a tad difficult given the poor design of the streets with their prohibitive curbs and driveways that don’t quite line up.” ~ Steve Martin
- “I shared this insight with some other boat owners, and they all agreed that, definitely, putting your boar into the water is asking for trouble. Most of them have had their boats sitting in their driveways long enough to be registered historical landmarks.” ~ Dave Barry
- “That`s instinct, you catch and you shoot. I`ve done it hundreds of thousands of times in my driveway. It`s what I`ve practiced.” ~ John Paxson
- “It’s not just the cheerleading thing I have a problem with, it’s the whole jock enchilada. I’m all for a good game of basketball in teh driveway or a killer bike ride. But when there’s tackling and grunting involved– no thanks.” ~ Linda Ellerbee
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“Driveway basketball, playing against the boys, watching Magic and Michael.” ~ Michael Bamberger
- “People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back.” ~ Jack Carter
- “I only wanted Uncle Vernon standing by his own car (a Hudson) on a clear day, I got him and the car. Ialso got a bit of Aunt Mary’s laundry and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on the fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It’s a generous medium, photography.” ~ Lee Friedlander
- “Ray, people will come Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won’t mind if you look around, you’ll say. It’s only $20 per person. They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack.” ~ James Earl Jones
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“I’m like an eclipse on a Friday the 13th, With black cats and Haley’s Comet, Blazin’ blunts in my driveway.” ~ Redman
- “When you’re a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother’s assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore. And a lot of fathers live in kind of an avoidance. They sit on the toilet for several hours a day… Oh, honey, it took me 40 minutes to go to the post office… But once you become a dad without the mom there, you have to take it all on, and you sort of activate male skills that you didn’t know you could apply to fatherhood.” ~ Louis C. K.
- “What does the Right have to show for eight years of a Republican presidency? I supported George W. Bush in 2000 because I thought he had a conservative bone in his body somewhere. I supported him in 2004 because I thought him the lesser of two evils. At this point, I wouldn’t let the fool park his car in my driveway. Bruce Bartlett was right, every damn word.” ~ John Derbyshire
- “At Car and Driver, we were convinced that the automobile, as we knew and loved it, was as dead as the passenger pigeon. Ralph Nader was at full cry, ringing his tocsin of automobile doom into the brains of the public, convincing them that the lump of chrome and iron in the driveway was as lethal as a dose of Strontium 90 or a blast from a Viet Cong AK-47.” ~ Brock Yates
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“Why do u drive on a parkway and park in the driveway. Its messed up.” ~ Justin Bieber
- “The harsh reality is that America moves on four wheels, powered by conventional internal-combustion engines. At this point, while the elite media (excluding Newsweek) trumpet the benefits of hybrids and Ford and Toyota plan to lead the nation into a low-powered, high-mileage hybrid Utopia, the multitudes remain loyal to the gas-guzzling family bus in the driveway.” ~ Brock Yates
