Quotes About Down The Road

#1. All of our competitors around the world, every country is investing more in infrastructure as a percentage of their GDP than we are. And down the road our children and grandchildren will have to compete with that more and more.

Douglas R. Oberhelman

#2. In New York the stakes are so high. In urban centers the stakes are so high. You marry the wrong person, you go to the wrong college, you take the wrong job. Any of these things could really get you in trouble down the road. Or in your mind anyway. You're afraid to make any move, it's paralyzing.

Meghan Daum

#3. The farther down the road you go the tougher they get and I live at the end of the road!

Edward L. Morse

#4. I went to Louisiana Tech, which is just down the road from where we lived. It was an easy college to get into.

Jeff Mangum

#5. I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.

Dave Eggers

#6. I keep telling you the future isn't set in stone. It's not all decided yet. The future is just what's down the road we decided to walk on today. You can change roads anytime. And that changes where you end up.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#7. I'm really just trying to hash out the next two weeks of my life. So, something that is potentially four months down the road is not just a mile down the road for me, it's a million miles down the road.

Adam Carolla

#8. He was kind. People bothered him. He thought we should be more concerned with the world around us and how our actions would affect things years down the road.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. As one of the motorbikes came towards me, I let a big heavy right go, and knocked the rider's head clean off his shoulders! Fucking hell, the guy's head was still in his helmet and it was clattering all the way down the road.

Stephen Richards

#10. This election presents a stark choice - we can continue down the road of the Obama Democrats, more and more spending, debt and government control of the economy, or we can return to the founding principles of our nation - free markets, fiscal responsibility and individual liberty.

Ted Cruz

#11. This is the blessed life - not anxious to see far down the road nor overly concerned about the next step, not eager to choose the path nor weighted down with the heavy responsibilities of the future, but quietly following the Shepherd, one step at a time.

Lettie B. Cowman

#12. Because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it leads you off the well worn path.

Steve Jobs

#13. We are often too late with our brilliance. We are on time delay. The only instant gratification comes in the form of potato chips. The rest will find us by surprise somewhere down the road maybe as we sleep and dream of other things.

Richard Schiff

#14. We need to stop kicking the can down the road and rethink our entire tax system toward long-term, comprehensive tax reform.

Brad Schneider

#15. I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

Gary Cherone

#16. I found out everybody's different
the same kind of different as me. We're all just regular folks walkin down the road God done set in front of us.

Denver Moore

#17. They had lived down the road from each other as children. Everyday they walked home from school hand in hand; they were childhood sweethearts, they were bestfriends. And when they came of age, in the time-honoured Sri Lankan tradition they were given in marriage. To other people.

Ashok Ferrey

#18. Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'

Michael Nutter

#19. Somewhere down the road ... I hope you find [that girls] don't all have the same thing between their ears. The good ones don't put up with macho mind games.

Alex Flinn

#20. Two to three years down the road, other companies not on a model like Dell's will be in trouble.

Jimmy Johnson

#21. I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

Robert Kirkman

#22. You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn't take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it's a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

Mark Strong

#23. Silence has built walls, walls that I attempt to break by pedaling faster, only to be imprisoned a hundred feet down the road.

Doug Cooper

#24. Tests that sugar-coat the truth only set up our kids to fail in worse ways down the road.

Wendy Kopp

#25. If we truly long for revival, we will rejoice even when it starts at the church down the road.

Kevin DeYoung

#26. In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option. We need to change this attitude toward failure - and celebrate the idea that only by falling on our collective business faces do we learn enough to succeed down the road.

Naveen Jain

#27. The fact that we can't easily foresee clues that would betray an intelligence a million millennia farther down the road suggests that we're like ants trying to discover humans. Ask yourself: Would ants ever recognize houses, cars, or fire hydrants as the work of advanced biology?

Seth Shostak

#28. Eat better or work out more, and you'll see the benefits weeks, months or years down the road. Sleep more, and you'll see the benefits tomorrow.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#29. I worry about 10, 15, 20, 25 years down the road. Where are we going to be in this age of nuclear weapons, where there is no margin for error?

Lincoln Chafee

#30. The Society which seeks to eliminate the very possibility of causing offence is already halfway down the road to tyranny.

Simon Young

#31. When you go through growing pains and learning experiences, it makes you tougher down the road.

Brian Roberts

#32. I was looking down the road of "life gone by" and I realized this road of life is not as long as it looks. Travel with caution and maximize every mile. It can be a beautiful journey.

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#33. Where did you wash? the boy thought. The village water supply was two streets down the road. I must have water here for him, the boy thought, and soap and a good towel. Why am I so thoughtless? I must get him another shirt and a jacket for the winter and some sort of shoes and another blanket.

Ernest Hemingway,

#34. The road of life is filled with sunshine and clouds, black and white, triumphs and tragedies. As we continue down the road, we decide which things we bring with us, and which we leave in the rear-view mirror.

Julie-Anne

#35. Not from here is one of the most damning insults that can be tossed, carrying with it the eternal question mark of what an outsider might be carrying inside of them, a mental or biological dark passenger that will rear up and bite your ass thirty years down the road.

Mindy McGinnis

#36. Know who you are, because that's how you will be cast at first. Then you can be Meryl Streep further down the road.

Beth Behrs

#37. One of the themes in my novels is that our crises can turn into blessings. We can feel like our world has crumbled, but ten years down the road when we look back on that time, we can see God's hand at work. I love writing that theme into my books.

Terri Blackstock

#38. Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.

Lorrie Moore

#39. I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

Matthew Fox

#40. I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

Conor Oberst

#41. Perhaps Dexter's dutiful but uninspired brain pictured him as Sherlock Holmes, able to examine the wheel ruts and deduce that a left-handed hunchback with red hair and a limp had gone down the road carrying a Cuban cigar and a ukulele. I would find no clues, not that it mattered.

Jeff Lindsay

#42. That may not be a majority position in my party, but that's down the road. You can't even begin that process until you prove to people - not just pass a law that says you're gonna bring illegal immigration under control. You're gonna have to do it and prove to people that it's working.

Marco Rubio

#43. Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

Douglas Adams

#44. The Peace Panda Says: Keep walking forward down the road of success and happiness ... leaving all your despair and worries behind you!

Timothy Pina

#45. No matter who you are or where you're from somewhere down the road you're gonna need someone.

Tarkan

#46. If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

Steve Carell

#47. If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if a girl is aggressive. It's just sex.

Andrew Dice Clay

#48. It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God's grace.

E.B. White

#49. On the way back down the road, he passes me in his car, our eyes meet for just a second and he smiles at me.

Paula Hawkins

#50. After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.

Johnny Depp

#51. I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.

Scott Niedermayer

#52. Of course you have days that are long, you're tired, and things aren't working out, and you can get frustrated, but I would say any of the things that make it less glamorous or cause some complexity or turn you down the road you weren't expecting to go down is a part of the thrill.

Ellen Page

#53. You cannot stoke the fires of prejudice against German people and then not find that somewhere, sometime down the road it doesn't discharge.

Ernst Zundel

#54. God does not lie in our collective past, God lies in our collective future; the Garden of Eden is tomorrow, not yetsterday; the Golden Age lies down the road, not up it.

Ken Wilber

#55. When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Chuck Palahniuk

#56. While they're building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

Sam Wood

#57. It's terribly wrong to stuff that sacred citadel with junk you know darn well is bad for you, I came to realize I was barreling pell-mell down the road leading to disease, disability and premature destruction of the most precious thing I could ever be given-my own life.

Ralph Maxwell

#58. I don't see anything wrong with a cell phone. That's great. You have a flat tire in the middle of the night; it works better than digging in your pocket for a quarter and looking for a payphone eight miles down the road.

Billy Bob Thornton

#59. As J.J. has said many times, when you start a series you want to have a destination. It's like driving a car, when you pull out of your garage and you head out driving down the road, you have a destination, okay?

Bryan Burk

#60. If you don't choose to do it in leadership time up front, you do it in crisis management time down the road.

Stephen Covey

#61. You're never where you want to be. There's always waiting. There's always some new project that's coming down the road - some new thing you're working on, some creative direction you're wanting to explore.

Laura Allen

#62. When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

Luis Fortuno

#63. Sissy,travelling down the road with you was all I have ever wanted in life.
The beauty of it! No matter how long this takes, I'll wait.

Josephine Hart

#64. The dead win when you quit singing and let them take you on down the road with them.

Joe Hill

#65. As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

Robert Plant

#66. Dear Dan, Why is the divorce rate so high?
D.A.: It is hard to imagine we can be happy with any decision we make even one year down the road, much less when we look back at our decisions five, ten, twenty, or even fifty years later. Frankly, I am amazed by how low the divorce rate is.

Dan Ariely

#67. If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.

Daniel Kahneman

#68. When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would get tickets for whoever showed up to play a gig at the big hall down the road, so I saw some wonderful people. The Everly Brothers, for example.

Tom Stoppard

#69. Knowing your true self will help you work more effectively to reach your goals. It will lead you down the road to success. It will bring you a calmness that will improve your attitude and your relationships with others.

Auliq Ice

#70. Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

Dolly Parton

#71. He wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, that he could have been part of something, that he could have been himself, walking down the road not taken, living a life in context and not the migrant's hollow journey that had been his fate

Salman Rushdie

#72. Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.

John Grisham

#73. We've been working now with computers and education for 30 years, computers in developing countries for 20 years, and trying to make low-cost machines for 10 years. This is not a sudden turn down the road.

Nicholas Negroponte

#74. Down the road, I'll probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor.

Alanis Morissette

#75. There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character.

Kathryn Bigelow

#76. I kept traveling down the road. And everywhere it was the same. What was my name, who were my people? What was I supposed to say? That my father is the president, and my mother is his slave?

Kimberly Brubaker Bradley

#77. And when you're alone there's a very good chance
you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants
There are some, down the road between hither and yon,
that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

Dr. Seuss

#78. When in still air and still in summertime
A leaf has had enough of this, it seems
To make up its mind to go; fine as a sage
Its drifting in detachment down the road.

Howard Nemerov

#79. Fast drivers can see no further than slow drivers, but they must look further down the road to time their reactions safely. Similarly, people with great projects afoot habitually look further and more clearly into the future than people who are mired in day-to-day concerns.

Robert Grudin

#80. There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

Chuck Hagel

#81. My theory has always been, if you take care of your business today, take care of the job you have at hand, whatever else comes down the road will be there for you.

Steve Scalise

#82. Large Professor, none greater none fresher,
Won't fold under pressure ... grew up down the road from Fran Drescher.

Extra P

#83. I probably will have to become more political down the road when my playing days are done, because I'm going to have to have the support of others to grow my foundation.

Tiger Woods

#84. I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.

Anderson Cooper

#85. In better times, we're celebrate Christmas Eve by attending the nativity play at the Catholic church down the road, watching Joseph and Mary and Baby Jesus try to escape from Herod's soldiers and their wooden swords and AK-47s (it wasn't the most accurate version, but it was funny.)

William Kamkwamba

#86. I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you're going into their home and it's just a natural part of life.

Bethany Hamilton

#87. Is it gonna take my breath now," Mizzy asked, "or, like, sometime down the road? I'd like to be prepared.

Brandon Sanderson

#88. When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.

Gloria Gaither

#89. Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.

James Redfield

#90. I have no problem with people feeling a bit down - crikey, you only have to walk down the road to find enough reasons to fall into a depressive coma - but I do have a problem with whining about it.

Mark Barrowcliffe

#91. You cannot hide from the truth, Mina. Anytime you try to argue with the truth you lose. Anytime you try to evade it or run away from it, it will find you down the road.

Karen Essex

#92. Let's walk down the road that has no end
Steal away where only angels tread
Heaven or hell or somewhere in between
Cross your heart to take me when you leave
Don't go
Please don't go
Don't go without me

The Civil Wars

#93. I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road ...

Little Richard

#94. The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.

Michael Scheuer

#95. Everything in life, the good and the bad, happens for a reason. You shouldn't question it, you should accept it, and take it as a life lesson, because maybe, just maybe, that bad experience is leading you down the road to the greatest adventure of your life.

Micalea Smeltzer

#96. If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.

Jeff Garcia

#97. Down the road in the rain and snow
The man and his machine would go
Oh the secrets that old car would know
Sometimes I hear him sayin' ...

Marc Cohn

#98. I really believe that things happen for reasons. While we're going through it, we don't know why, but somewhere down the road we'll understand. Each experience in life teaches us something; it helps us grow and be a better person.

Melissa A. Hanson

#99. In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.

Shannon Ables

#100. So much depends upon a blue car splattered with mud speeding down the road.

Sharon Creech