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“I'd really like to get on a Greyhound bus and go backpacking across America.”

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Author:David Morrissey

“I thought I was going to die a few times. On the Freedom Ride in the year 1961, when I was beaten at the Greyhound bus station in Montgomery, I thought I was going to die. On March 7th, 1965, when I was hit in the head with a night stick by a State Trooper at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death, but nothing can make me question the philosophy of nonviolence.”

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Author:John Lewis

“I used to run away to New York from Baltimore all the time.I would get on the Greyhound bus and tell my parents I was going to some sorority weekend. I'd even make up fake permission slips, come to New York and just ask people on the street if I could stay with them and go see midnight movies.”

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Author:John Waters

“I hate the bloody highways. I hate hamburgers, I hate Greyhound buses. I'd have liked to have been in America during the Jazz Age, or the Golden Age of Hollywood.”

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Author:Shane MacGowan

“Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”

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Author:Edith Sitwell

“I was washing dishes at the Greyhound bus station at the time and I said, 'Awap bop a lup bop a wop bam boom, take 'em out!'”

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Author:Little Richard

“You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.”

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Author:Robert Johnson

“I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and received Dunham, Horton, Graham technique there, but I could never take my eyes off of Balanchine doing 'Nutcracker'; to me he's the best who ever did it.”

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Author:Laurieann Gibson

“If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?”

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Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."”

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Author:Dave Barry