Best Bus Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I'd always thought pop stars had to be really sophisticated and grown-up. So I was enchanted by Bjork's childlikeness. I'd never heard a voice like hers, with all its character and glottal pronunciations, or music recorded with background noises, like the sound of the city or a bus pulling up.”

“If I feel like I am being thrown under the bus, how am I supposed to get up and come for a party to enjoy the team's or team-mate's success?”

“I legitimately would like to drive a yellow bus when I'm older so I've actually thought about - I want to be either a crossing guard or drive a yellow bus. Drive the kids to school or let them cross to school so, you know, that's something I'm excited about. I'm serious about that. I think that will be great.”

“My Flying Bus stage at Glastonbury is really special to me and a great hangout for the hardcore party people.”

“I would wake up before school, say 5 A.M., and I remember running to the gym, one mile door to door, do a full weight training session, run home before the school bus picked us up.”

“I wrote 'On Second Thought' in five minutes in the back of my bus going through Montana.”

“If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, you'd get people going: 'Oh, we should make 'Mother' into an opera, it's what he would have wanted.'”

“Even in downtown office areas, people would probably beg for a shuttle bus service to ferry them swiftly to the railway stations and bus stations, instead of forcing them to travel squashed up in shared-taxis.”

“Sometimes I think I'm put on too high a pedestal and get thrown under the bus too much.”

“Flying private is cool, but the tour bus is like a home that you can decorate.”

“My favorite singer is Canton Jones, a gospel hip-hop artist - when I'm on the bus going to a game, I listen to him in my own little world, singing and dancing; he gets me ready to play every time.”

“I think about my dad and how tough he had it. They treated us a lot better in our minor league system, especially with the food. But the bus rides were no joke.”

“How did we kill time before smartphones? I honestly can't recall. I have a vague recollection of flipping through magazines in waiting-room-type situations, but what did we do, say, in line at the post office? Waiting for a bus? Waiting for someone to meet us at a restaurant? I mean, did we just look around or something?”

“If I'm on a bus and an old lady gets on, I get up.”

“Moms don't just sit there cooking everyday and aren't always there to greet their kids at the school bus.”

“I still live in the city. I still jump on the bus.”

“When I was young I wanted to be a bus driver, because my grandad was a conductor on the Routemasters.”

“Hillbilly Rock' was the song that opened the door and gave me a reason to get a bus and a band and cowboy clothes to go out there and figure it out in front of everybody. And the hits started coming.”

“I have a '72 Volkswagen bus and it's lime green.”

“You meet somebody on a bus or something, and they say, 'Thank you for the World Cup; it was so good to see,' and stuff like this - it's funny.”

“I play my Switch a lot when I'm traveling, when I'm on the bus or things like that.”

“I always loved hip-hop, being a black little kid. I always used to freestyle on the bus when I was young. It was always a part of my life.”

“I don't really like living in a very small space, like a tour bus, even though I have an amazing tour bus, and I've had multiple tour buses. It's still not a lot of room.”

“I'm definitely sleep deprived - it is so hard to sleep on a tour bus! It moves around so much, and we have really weird time schedules.”

“I've been on the road since I was 15, in one way or another - on a bus, in a 15-passenger van, pulling a U-haul - so I would be lying if I said sometimes the miles and the road didn't get long. But it's always rewarding, that hour and a half every night you get to stand up there and see it all pay off and feel the love from that crowd.”

“It's never my goal to throw any of my peers under the bus.”

“In the quest for perfect protection of Sony's intellectual property, the company threw the privacy and security of their customers under the bus.”

“I spent six figures of my own money to get a tour bus and do a fan tour for my second album. I surprised fans at their houses, and we'd eat food and play video games.”

“No matter what job you have, you're in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day - being on the energy bus.”

“I love public transportation! Who wants to sit in a car and be angry at other drivers for eight hours? I'd rather sit on a bus or train and read a book.”

“I came to theatre as a teenager by going to the National Theatre when it was at the Old Vic and sitting on padded seats in the gallery for 15 pence, which was the price of a bus fare.”

“I basically grew up on the road with my dad, on a tour bus every summer since I was a kid.”

“When I was released from prison 15 years ago, I was given a $25 check and a bus ticket and told to start my life over.”

“I listen to music on the bus or in the car on the way to a game.”

“I knew I'd made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.”

“We watch a load of films on the tour bus. We all watched Michael Jackson's 'This Is It', which was really amazing and it is a shame we will never get to see him perform live again.”

“To be truthful, when I'd be on the bus when I was a little kid, like fourth, fifth grade, we'd always be free-styling and playing around.”

“If you've never lived outside London, and if you've always had a car, it's difficult to understand how dire bus services undermine your standard of living: from being able to get to work, meet friends in the pub, get the weekly shop or take the kids on a day out.”

“Sometimes I get recognised and sometimes I don't. The bus drivers will sometimes stop to try and get a selfie at peak times with traffic all around you!”

“Whenever we are en route to a game on the bus I am always watching the goals of Ronaldo, Adriano, and Neymar to get some inspiration. Then, when I am on the pitch, I try to replicate what they do.”

“I guess getting used to sleeping on the tour bus has been the hardest thing - that and settling for whatever food you can get on the road.”

“I've had teams where we've had to get on a bus for 200 miles, play a game, and then drive 200 miles back.”

“There are all sorts of parents I hate - super-keen parents, PTA parents, and fat parents on a bus.”

“I started home-schooling when I was in elementary school because my parents were really busy back then. They didn't have time to drive me there, and we didn't have a school bus or whatever.”

“I'm a big 'Call of Duty' fan, and I used to play a lot online while I was in the bus, but I hate to be the guy who is lagging everybody out.”

“My music's like waiting for a bus. You wait a long time for one, then a whole heap of them come along.”

“I like NPR's podcasts because I can listen to those on the bus.”

“I'm a huge Lionel Richie fan, and sometimes we actually listen to Lionel Richie on the bus.”

“When we look at transportation in America, there's going to be companies like Magic Bus, where you have these private bus fleets. You're going to have carpooling; you're going to have these different types of transportation. It's going to be a full ecosystem, but it's not going to be a winner-takes-all.”

“People are released from prison so unprepared. They give you $200. We call it gate money. And you have to pay for a bus ticket back to L.A. You get off the Greyhound bus, downtown Skid Row, and you're supposed to make a life from that.”

“I grew up on a council estate in south London; my dad was a bus driver and my mum sewed clothes to bring in extra money. My parents worked hard and were able to save up and buy a home for our family.”

“On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.”

“I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems.”

“I love the road. The closest thing to home, for me, is being on a tour bus, ironically.”

“If I got hit by a bus tomorrow, I get to say I was in a movie.”

“I was 23 and saw my face on the side of the big T4 bus at V Festival and almost fainted.”

“It took a while to learn to eat healthy on road. It's really hard. Really, really hard. But on the bus, I can use the stovetop in the morning to make a veggie scramble. And have lots and lots and lots of coffee. I try to have protein for dinner so I have energy for the show.”

“I hate 'Rolling Stone' - because I loved it so much. I had the 'Cheap Tricks' cover and the Clash cover on my wall for years, and I just hate what happened to it. It just became the smarmy grad student that sits next to you on the bus.”

“If the bus driver is black, I thank him... when I get off at my spot, whereas I would never think of doing this if the driver were white.”

“Sometimes on a tour bus, we watch comedy when it's slow.”

“Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun.”

“If I'm chartering in and out and flying home after I play, that doesn't make sense. But where we can bus, then we'll bring the family out and spend time with them during the day.”

“If I'm going to Kilburn, I get on a bus.”

“If a lawyer, if a teacher, if a bus driver, if they're on $40,000 and they get offered a lot more to go somewhere else, what do you think they're going to do?”

“I'm used to pressure. When writing must get done, I work in bed, on a bus, a train.”

“Do you know who takes weekday shuttle flights between Washington and New York? People who think they are too important for the train, let alone the bus.”

“Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.”

“I've always been the kind of person who leaves parties early to catch the last bus home.”

“I learned to focus on what's real rather than imagined; on not letting feelings drive the bus; on being courageous and honest; on putting my total effort into something and not worrying about the result.”

“You can't have a U.S. Open anymore without an extra course to store all the hospitality tents. I used to be able to drive up to the clubhouse and park like the players. Now, there are seven corporate hospitality guys who have my spot, and I'm on a bus.”

“When I was a little girl, there was this unbelievably cool female bus driver who'd work near us. I remember thinking I'd like to be her when I grew up.”

“When I was little, my mom would dress me up and take me downtown on the Carondelet bus, which in itself was exciting. We would go to see Santa Claus at Famous-Barr. The decorations were so pretty. The line was long, but that just gave me more time to enjoy Santa's Toyland. I loved every minute of it.”

“I don't have those superstitious ticks that people have to have something for the road. I like to have good food on the bus, my own pillow, and onesies. Onesies are a must.”

“I remember, after the New Year's Eve 1991 show, somebody running onto the bus and saying Nirvana had just hit No. 1. I remember thinking, 'Wow; it's on now.' It changed something. We had something to prove - that our band was as good as I thought it was.”

“You don't throw your quarterback under the bus, the guy who makes you who you are.”

“I fell in love with it after going there on holiday when I was 16: we went on one of those red bus tours, and it goes past Juilliard, and I was like, 'I want to go there'.”

“When friends wanted to go to the centre of town, they took a bus or tram. I took the ball and went running after them. School was hell because I had to put the ball on the ground. Outside, I was free, playing the ball.”

“I don't go, 'I'm in the papers all the time,' because there are loads of people in the papers all the time. Sometimes I'm still like, 'Ooh, look- there's me!' I'm never like, 'Wow, look at me on the bus.' You have to be a bit grounded about things like that.”

“I try to make sure to get off the bus as much as I can, try to do something during the day that's local to where I am, whether it's hiking or fishing.”

“I used to get off the bus, and there'd be a crowd around, you know, and I was thinking, 'God, I hope this is not for me.' And it normally was, and it was because someone said something to my sister, and the first she says is, 'Well, I'll get my brother.'”

“To win competitions you need a bit of luck and some talent. I think we have some talent on our bus.”

“Democrats like to picture us as pushing grandmother over the cliff or throwing someone under the bus. In either one of those scenarios, at least the senior has a chance to survive.”

“I don't colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people.”

“I started coming up to New York at age 17. There was a girl I met over the summer somewhere; I was chasing her. I would drive up to D.C., where I had made some friends, which was about four hours away, and we would take the bus up to New York.”

“Oh, isn't it cool? It's so cool being an actor! It's so cool having my face on a bus.”

“If I don't have cereal on the bus, I'm going to be really upset.”

“I drove around New York when we did the upfronts and when we premiered 'Fargo,' and they crocheted a sweater for a double-decker bus and drove it around.”

“When I was playing for Nacional in Montevideo, the players who lived outside the city would be given money by the club to get there and back on the bus.”

“I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.”

“I remember I could do - I did Bart Simpson once on the bus. I did, like, a really good Bart Simpson voice on the bus, obviously before I hit puberty. And everybody went, 'Whoa, that sounds just like Bart Simpson.'”

“I've got to write about my character every day. I've got to find out where he lives, what bus he catches to school, and stuff like that. You've got to know every little thing about him so when you do it, it feels natural.”

“I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but he can make every joke very funny. He would always come up with jokes on the loudspeaker on the bus.”

“When me and my brother Eagle-Eye were kids, life was about hitting the road, getting on the bus. We loved it.”

“I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.”

“At 14, I was the most disciplined guy around. I would get up at 5 o'clock in the morning and run five miles, and then go to school. Sometimes I would run behind the school bus, and the kids thought I was just crazy. I knew what I wanted.”

“Rebellion is what you make of it. When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious.”

“In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.”

“You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.”

“Normally I'm really lucky because I can go down to my local shops and no one cares. I take the Tube and the bus so it's kind of the perfect balance.”

“It's so important to take vitamins. People always get ill on tour because of the close proximity in the bus with everyone.”