Footpath Route Quotes

#1. When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.

Quentin Crisp

#2. Someone said drink the water, but I will drink the wine
Someone said take a poor man, the rich don't have a dime
Go fool yourself, if you will, I just haven't got the time
I'll give you back your water, and I will take the wine.

Frank Sinatra

#3. The challenge to people like me is, how do you use your capabilities and resources to help support things that are important to you, whether it's the arts or education or homelessness?

Brian Moynihan

#4. Does general relativity predict that our universe should have had a big bang, a beginning of time?

Stephen Hawking

#5. I don't think that [Hillary Clinton] can turn around her honesty and trustworthiness problems with one speech, but she could present herself tonight as more relatable, give people a glimpse of that warm, funny woman the people who meet her in small groups and one-on-one say that she is.

Tamara Keith

#6. There's too much shit still down the road that I got to deal with. It aint goin to end here.

Cormac McCarthy

#7. I write just because the fire of my emotion is burning. Had I not, I would not have been able to find peace.

Ba Jin

#8. The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Erich Fromm

#9. I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification ... It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

Isaac Asimov

#10. Being aware sucks.

Susane Colasanti

#11. I feel like all my stars have aligned, and Uranus wants to knock me out of orbit.

Robin Alexander

#12. We're watchers of this world aren't we? not players

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. There is no love.
There's only love of men and women, love
Of children, love of friends, of men, of God:
Divine love, human love, parental love,
Roughly discriminated for the rough.

Robert Frost

#14. It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Gertrude Stein

#15. It is important to understand that in the modern world we prefer the replica to the original because it gives us the greater frisson. I leave that word in French because I think you understand it well that way.

Julian Barnes