Hitchhike Quotes

#1. Sissy Hankshaw once taught a parakeet to hitchhike.

Tom Robbins

#2. right? But no. Don't hitchhike, the driver

Ann Packer

#3. I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast.

Tom Robbins

#4. This is just one of those annoying and unjust differences between you and your younger sibling ... I was probably fifteen before I could go to a friend's house without giving mom an FBI dossier on the people; Bex can practically hitchhike on the freeway with a mere Have fun, honey.

Deb Caletti

#5. We set off walking backwards, thumbs out, trying to hitchhike to the postoperative breast augmentation appointment, perhaps a first in the state of Iowa.

Ann Patchett

#6. When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

John Oates

#7. My mother was working a lot, so she was gone often. I would leave school and hitchhike to the beach. I can't believe I hitchhiked now. It scares me to death now.

Bo Derek

#8. I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

Rickie Lee Jones

#9. In February of 1972, a snowstorm blew into Kansas City, and I decided to hitchhike to California. The roads were icy, snowflakes howling, and nobody would drive me to the highway, so I humped through the snow and ice and caught a ride with a concerned cop to the Kansas Turnpike.

Daniel Woodrell

#10. The "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" hitchhiker really made people never want to hitchhike again - the hitcher, the show. Hitchhiking is always vaguely sexual.

John Waters

#11. My mother did literally hitchhike barefoot to the country store.

Moon Unit Zappa

#12. I've made a lot of choices, some good, some not so good; how sad for those who merely hitchhike along, never daring to choose at all.

C.J. Heck

#13. In Texas, having a vehicle meant having a life--if you walked on the shoulder, everybody could see that you'd failed in some way. That you couldn't afford a vehicle, that your car had broken down and you couldn't pay for a cab, that you had no friends to call. Maybe you were too weird to hitchhike.

James Hannaham

#14. I play until my fingers are blue and stiff from the cold, and then I keep on playing. Until I'm lost in the music. Until I am the music
notes and chords, the melody and harmony. It hurts, but it's okay because when I'm the music, I'm not me. Not sad. Not afraid. Not desperate. Not guilty.

Jennifer Donnelly

#15. Truth resists simplicity.

John Green

#16. Only love can free us from fear. Fear causes us to cower in the shadows; Love allows us to dance in the sunlight.

Donald L. Hicks

#17. Who you are as a person has a lot to do with who you are as meat

Scott Carney

#18. You know, for one glorious half hour, I was the mother of the president-elect.

Barbara Bush

#19. Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

Rose Macaulay

#20. Politicians learned hundreds of years ago that people who had little material wealth were incredibly jealous of those who had more than they did. This deep-seated envy was ripe for exploitation - and the exploitation has been running rampant for generations.

Neal Boortz

#21. That uncivilized heathen nations should first be civilized, and then Christianized, is a sentiment of the past. Now it is coming more and more to be acknowledged, that the Bible is the great civilizer of the nations.

Stephen Return Riggs

#22. When we transcend our own thoughts, we get in touch with the womb of creation.

Deepak Chopra

#23. The highway's closed at a certain point. You have a certain amount of miles that you can make. It's a recognition of mortality.

Peter Ames Carlin

#24. At first I'd tried subtlety, but as it happened, Dane's mind - as fierce and strong and powerful as he was - had about the level of subtlety as a locomotive that went off the tracks and then fell off a cliff. And then hit a tree and a nitroglycerine truck.

Lynn Red

#25. Be brave, right through, and leave for the unknown.

Rabindranath Tagore