Quotes About Roads

#1. Most men, I am convinced, have an unmistakable feeling at the final moment of significant choice that they are making a free decision, that they can really decide which one of two or more roads to follow.

Corliss Lamont

#2. The composition of each epoch depends upon the way the frequented roads are frequented.

Gertrude Stein

#3. You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yours will be full of riddles. You will be protected and you will never be alone.

Ben Okri

#4. Only the hardest roads make us really feel that we are alive! Leave the easy roads!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.

Narendra Modi

#6. Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.

Rumi

#7. I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.

Paul Engle

#8. I didn't want to die, ever. I wanted to watch a million suns set, love a million women, walk down a million city streets and lonely roads. A thousand lifetimes wouldn't be enough for that. Sometimes, convinced I had come down with some fatal illness, I was afraid I wouldn't even have one.

Hillel Halkin

#9. My feet crunched over dry hickory leaves. Wood rangers had stapled up Smokey Bear ("Only You Can Prevent Forest Fires!") signs along the state roads. One cigarette butt flicked out a passing car window and there'd be real hell to pay.

Ed Lynskey

#10. Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

Paulo Coelho

#11. Free will ... is a double edged sword. It can either lead you down the roads of peace, joy and happiness or the roads of darkness and despair!

Timothy Pina

#12. Now, you have to choose between two roads." Thin-Face looked straight into my eyes. "You can break with your family and follow Chairman Mao, or you can follow your father and become an enemy of the people." His

Ji-li Jiang

#13. I think I'll paint roads
on my front room walls
to convince myself
that I'm going places

Lemn Sissay

#14. I grew up in the south, poor - on rock, dirt roads.

Tina Turner

#15. Their imperfect record at awards shows was disappointing, sure, but the best prize of all came when, on February 4, 1986, President Ronald Reagan name-checked and quoted directly from the movie - where we're going, we don't need roads - in his State of the Union address.

Caseen Gaines

#16. Delhi. The ruins of an old city, markets, monuments, broken mansions, the zigzag of roads, the still

sad times of music past. And rising up from it, her mother, wind in her hair, laughing like a witch.

Debotri Dhar

#17. If we were always given a choice as to every path presented us in life, a multitude of roads leading to priceless treasures would forever go untraveled.
Be grateful for your adversities.
From toil and triumph evolves a life worth living."
- from "Brahna A'Mahr

Richelle E. Goodrich

#18. Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. I love it in the States. The roads are big, the food is big. If it was possible to be in L.A. and still live my racing life, I would move now.

Lewis Hamilton

#20. There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.

Maria Sharapova

#21. All roads that lead to God are good.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#22. I understand that everything is connected, that all roads meet, and that all rivers flow into the same sea.

Paulo Coelho

#23. Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

Bill Lipinski

#24. I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

Charles Kuralt

#25. Love, how many roads to obtain a kiss ...

Pablo Neruda

#26. We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#27. She often said that "all roads lead to something you were always predestined to do." And for her, perhaps, it was something.

But for Ove it was someone.

Fredrik Backman

#28. The mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe that when you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear, as you yourself do at dawn, sailing through the light.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#29. They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

Michael McIntyre

#30. That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

Margaret Landon

#31. Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got - nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.

Eugene O'Neill

#32. If everybody (traded his car for a horse) they would be out of debt in a couple of years. Just think, no gas, no tires, no roads to pay for.

Will Rogers

#33. I think also people in states like Pennsylvania know that a lot of money and effort and time needs to be spent on knitting America back together, on the bridges and the roads and the infrastructure and the education.

Chris Matthews

#34. I shall no longer fear what's on the roads ahead of me ... nor shall I be in despair about what I left behind. I shall live in the present moment and strive for greatness and work to brighten humanity with each step I take.

Timothy Pina

#35. Regardless the destination, all roads lead home.

H. L. Balcomb

#36. During intellectual droughts one shower of good ideas can cause a flash-flood to wash away the roads your habits travel.

Bryant McGill

#37. Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

Mark Skousen

#38. All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

Jean De La Fontaine

#39. Different roads sometimes leads to the same castle. Who knows?

George R R Martin

#40. An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

Katherine Cecil Thurston

#41. Pakistan is not about to crack down on terror groups or cut its military budget in order to build roads, schools and hospitals.

Stephen Kinzer

#42. You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won't change.

Greg Mortenson

#43. Get yourself grounded and you can navigate even the stormiest roads in peace.

Steve Goodier

#44. Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.

Bob Dylan

#45. Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.

Lu Xun

#46. As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Charles Caleb Colton

#47. My tough and grotesque images were thrown on the roads and were stepped on by my critics, and I was talked about with scorn. I felt regret that readers only seemed to like something they were accustomed to.

Kim Hyesoon

#48. Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

Clive Barker

#49. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those rewards are hidden by years.

Richard Bach

#50. Street circuits mean that we are racing in the centre of roads that people use everyday, which is very cool for drivers, but it also makes it very easy to make a mistake, which adds more excitement for fans.

Sam Bird

#51. I have always loved running on the roads, ever since I used to take part in relays for my club when I was 12 and 13. I felt really at home on the surface.

Paula Radcliffe

#52. Any number of roads can lead to the corner office, and some of them have nothing to do with leadership.

R. Albert Mohler Jr.

#53. Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated.

Barack Obama

#54. To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

Ezra Pound

#55. Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths

Neil Gaiman

#56. But up and down the lamplit roads Youth wandered , and Hope, and Love, arm held close in arm, full in faith, dreaming star-hued dreams.
Are not our dreams the lamps on a rainy road?

Ethel Carnie

#57. Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.

Sathya Sai Baba

#58. Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none.

Shannon L. Alder

#59. There are many roads to journalism. My feeling is that your best bet in college is to study the subjects you will want to write about, whether politics, the environment or the law.

Serge Schmemann

#60. Results rarely specify their causes unambiguously. If we have no direct evidence of fossils or human chronicles, if we are forced to infer a process only from its modern results, then we are usually stymied or reduced to speculation about probabilities. For many roads lead to almost any Rome.

Stephen Jay Gould

#61. If I could change anything, I would definitely have had a father around. My father. I would definitely say it affected me deeply as a young man, coming up. Who doesn't want a father? Those are the beginnings, and those are what can dictate the roads you choose in life, and choosing them well.

R. Kelly

#62. Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Paul D. Boyer

#63. The roads to the stars are open only to those who grasp the great thoughts!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#64. Then Frankie said: 'Here's a thought. How many roads must a man walk down?

Douglas Adams

#65. No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms, only to regain them, it is true, on the roads of memory, when we have left that hour far behind us, and so long as our soul is vast enough to disclose deep perspectives.

Marcel Proust

#66. Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

Tom Stoppard

#67. There are people dying from famine on the roads, and you do not issue the stores of your granaries for them. When people die, you say, 'it is not owing to me, it is owing to the year.' In what does this differ from stabbing a man and killing him, and then saying, 'it was not I, it was the weapon?

Mencius

#68. A place is yours when you know where all the roads go.

Stephen King

#69. This town of churches and dreams; this town I thought I would lose myself in, with its backward ways and winding roads leading to nowhere; but, I found myself instead. -Magic in the Backyard (excerpt from American Honey)

Kellie Elmore

#70. A bridge. A big bridge with lots of traffic. You can't be serious. I've almost killed us at least twice going up and down these crazy hilly roads!" I yelped with true fear in my quivering voice.

Elle Klass

#71. What a dynamic, handsome object is a path! How precise the familiar hill paths remain for our muscular consciousness! Oh, my roads and their cadence.

Gaston Bachelard

#72. In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#73. We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam constructions, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of previously settled land.

David Foreman

#74. Keep your thoughts and your mind always going forward ahead on the roads of life, just as you would do driving your car.

Timothy Pina

#75. Plots within plots, but all roads lead down the dragon's gullet.

George R R Martin

#76. You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for.

Elizabeth Warren

#77. I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.

Patrick Duffy

#78. I learned that opening myself to my own love and to life's tough loveliness not only was the most delicious, amazing thing on earth but also was quantum. It would radiate out to a cold, hungry world. Beautiful moments heal, as do real cocoa, Pete Seeger, a walk on old fire roads.

Anne Lamott

#79. Many roads open pathways to authenticity. For some it is disciplined practice, for others revelation, for others service. Regardless of how we get in touch with authenticity or how authenticity gets in touch with us, the engagement is ongoing and forever challenging.

Rob Terry

#80. All roads lead past shooting ranges, liquor stores, and gay bars. Wanderlust is part of the American Spirit.

Andrew Smith

#81. Hundreds of barefoot Filipinos marched on the roads through the Philippines carrying heavy wooden crosses and whipping their backs until they bled to prepare for Easter. Call me old-fashioned but I just like coloring the eggs.

Jay Leno

#82. We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

John Blair

#83. I often wished that I could split myself a hundred ways and live a hundred separate lives [ ... ]. But in the end, I supposed, we only had one life to lead, and the roads not taken would always outnumber and outshine the roads we end up taking, day by day, without plan.

Davy Rothbart

#84. So many roads to choose, so many wrong choices to make.

Kenyon Ledford

#85. We are all the people we knew; all the books we read; all the roads we travelled; all the mistakes we made; all the dreams we dreamed! We are ... We are all of them!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#86. Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of childhood or the first time we fell in love.

Jo Nesbo

#87. We need to spend a trillion dollars rebuilding our schools, our roads, our basic science and research here in the United States.

Barack Obama

#88. Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.

Andre Breton

#89. I wondered what this odd, well-spoken man was doing on Cairnholm, with his pleated slacks and half-baked poems, looking more like a bank manager than someone who lived on a windswept island with one phone and no paved roads.

Ransom Riggs

#90. No, I'd never been to this country
before. No, I didn't know where the roads
would lead me. No, I didn't intend to
turn back.

Mary Oliver

#91. I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.

Garrett Hedlund

#92. Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.

Angela N. Blount

#93. Don't be afraid of the dark roads or the roads that look unsafe, the roads that look going to nowhere, the roads that look leading to the precipices! Have some courage, then the road will look different, it will look better, it will look brighter and much less dangerous!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#94. In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.

Dean Koontz

#95. You and I must work together to develop our country, to get education for our children, to have doctors, to build roads, to improve or provide all day-to-day essentials.

Jomo Kenyatta

#96. To ask why we need libraries at all, when there is so much information available elsewhere, is about as sensible as asking if roadmaps are necessary now that there are so very many roads.
[American Libraries Magazine, May 28, 2009]

Jon Bing

#97. For it is no railways, roads, and power stations that give rise to industrial capitalism: it is the emergence of industrial capitalism that leads to the building of railways, to the construction of roads, and to the establishment of power stations.

Paul A. Baran

#98. The high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

Winston Churchill

#99. Many access roads are too dangerous for relief workers, preventing them from carrying out assessments or reaching people in need.

Jan Egeland

#100. The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!

Mehmet Murat Ildan