Top 75 Quotes About The Road Not Taken
#1. Seize every opportunity along the way, for how sad it would be if the road you chose became the road not taken.
Robert Breault
#2. When I think of Robert Frost's poems, like "The Road Not Taken", I feel the support of someone who is on my side, who understands what life's choices are like, someone who says, "I've been there, and it's okay to go on".
Fred Rogers
#3. I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
Robert Breault
#4. The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.
Lisa Wingate
#5. This is our life; there's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it's hard for me to accept this way of thinking . I'm always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.
Jenny Han
#6. 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
#7. I go to the gym, do some martial arts, and I love poetry. I have a tattoo of my family crest, and another on my back that says 'The Road Not Taken,' which is a poem by Robert Frost.
Steven R. McQueen
#8. I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.
Robert Breault
#9. Being thankful to the road not taken, ... because only right things at right time give uh pleasure and success.
Lovely Goyal
#10. God feels like He's taken a road trip lately and I'm not sure I want to track Him down.
Kimberly Stuart
#11. No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.
Blaise Pascal
#12. I was wondering aimlessly; too many road were open ... too many resolves, too complex, allowed of being taken. I took ... by far the simplest of them all.
Edmond Rostand
#13. 66/ 'Two roads diverge in a yellow wood,' I think. It didn't ultimately matter which one you took; that was the real point of Frost's poem. The roads were pretty much the same. That stuff about the one less traveled making all the difference was bullshit.
Kim Addonizio
#14. Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect to notice the irredeemably sectarian truth claims of each.
Sam Harris
#15. How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.
Bob Dylan
#16. Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.
Mark Batterson
#17. Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.
Franz Liszt
#18. May the pathways that have taken you along the road to loss, guide you along the road to healing.
Eleesha
#19. On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.
Cormac McCarthy
#20. I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian experience. It was just sort of assumed like an awful lot of things in the 1950's were just sort of taken for granted.
N. T. Wright
#21. I think one of the things about writing in the studio is that the song hasn't matured, if you like, so quite often the vocals are early attempts. Whereas once you've taken it out on the road a bit, you learn more about a song.
Peter Gabriel
#22. The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis.
Robbie Robertson
#23. Infinity exist unfortnately what will happen if we accept it??
After all numbers are taken what happens??
We will start with Omega+1 Then Omega+Omega+1... Think on this, this is the infinitive road, I gave it to you but what you will do?
Deyth Banger
#25. In my entire life growing up I've never heard my dad say an unkind word about anyone. My father has always taken the high road in life and to me he's a complete inspiration without being a pushover.
Hugh Panaro
#26. God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world.
Si Robertson
#27. Being Churchill, he couldn't have taken any other road. But now that he'd finally gotten to where he'd wanted to go he could look back and see the distant landmarks of what he'd missed.
Lisa Kleypas
#28. Leaders don't walk in front, nor do they walk behind. They walk on completely different paths on the journey of intuition. The road that has never been taken. And so they lead.
Matthew Donnelly
#29. Frankly - and believe me, I say this without any pretense - when I see the road I've taken, I have to say that thanks to good luck, because without good luck one can do nothing, I've come out pretty well.
James MacArthur
#30. The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.
Barack Obama
#31. My desk, most loyal friend thank you. You've been with me on every road I've taken. My scar and my protection.
Marina Tsvetaeva
#32. By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.
Elizabeth McGovern
#33. When you are at the end of the road, turn around and take another road. I promise it will be less painful.
Debasish Mridha
#34. A good many of our higher-bracket businessmen might have been just as rich, just as powerful, but more respected and infinitely happier, if they had taken the slower and longer road of absolute ethical integrity and moral decency.
Og Mandino
#35. I may dispute, in favour of my chosen road, the road that someone else has taken. I may criticize the workings of his logic ... But I must respect the man, if he toils towards the same star.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#36. Tantra is the left-handing path, meaning it is the road less taken.
Frederick Lenz
#37. Ove looks at the group assembled around him, as if he's been kidnapped and taken to a parallel universe. For a moment he thinks about swerving off the road, until he realises that the worst case scenario would be that they all accompanied him into the afterlife.
Fredrik Backman
#38. Sometimes, you turn left on life's road; sometimes, you turn right. But once you've made that decision, you have to march ahead and push through anything in your way. Never waste time thinking about what it would have been like if you'd taken the other path.
Arthur T. Bradley
#39. She wondered if she'd taken the first step on the road away from her dreams. What scared her was how easy it had been to do it.
Matthew Thomas
#40. Precautions to be taken in the case
Of freak reincarnation: what to do
On suddenly discovering that you
Are now a young and vulnerable toad
Plump in the middle of a busy road,
Or a bear cub beneath a burning pine,
Or a book mite in a revived divine.
Vladimir Nabokov
#41. In the end, everything happens for a reason. Paths are meant to be crossed for a higher purpose than what we realize at the moment. Life for everyone goes on. This is just a fork in the road that has taken me for a slight detour. Tomorrow I'll pick up a new map and set my sights on a new direction.
A.M. Willard
#43. There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.
Michelle Williams
#44. Choose a master, for without him this journey is full of tribulations, fears, and dangers. With no escort, you would be lost on a road you would have already taken. Do not travel alone on the Path.
Rumi
#45. I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to 'cause then there's more room for me on the low road.
Aziz Ansari
#46. This feeling of guilt is your conscience calling your attention to the higher road, and your heart wishing you had taken it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#47. I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.
Michael Redhill
#48. I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
William J. Clinton
#49. He occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. He no longer represented someday, a possibility. He represented a road not taken, a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see where it went anymore.
Ann Brashares
#50. Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge right down the beaten path.
Charlaine Harris
#51. Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?
Damon Knight
#52. The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.
Charisma Carpenter
#53. I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.
Chris Robinson
#54. We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#55. I have never taken a road trip. Unless you count Los Angeles to Vegas.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler
#56. The road does seem long before you embark on the journey,
That's why I think the most difficult part is to start.
But when you are in motion, and steps taken become many,
Nothing can stop you; that's only if you guard your heart.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#57. There are no simple answers in life. There is a good and bad in everyone and everything. No decision is made without consequence. No road is taken that doesn't lead to another. What's important is that those roads always be kept open, for there's no telling what wonder they might lead to.
D.J. MacHale
#58. Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.
Michel De Montaigne
#59. I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
Charlie Daniels
#60. We bury our seeds and wait,
Winter blocks the road,
Flowers are taken prisoner underground,
But then green justice tenders a spear
Rumi
#61. I always wonder how many potholes there are in the road less taken. I mean it's great to go where others don't, but is it maintained?
Neil Leckman
#62. Always Love and Cherish the people your with, you are everyones voice. you are taken by everyone to help others Along the same road as you.
-Sheena Raquel Maroney
Sheena
#63. I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
Paul McCartney
#64. I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.
Liz Garbus
#65. He no longer represented someday a possibility. He represented a road not taken a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see it anymore.
Ann Brashares
#66. Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along ... well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. Dean: God exists without qualms. As we roll along this way, I am positive beyond doubt that everything will be taken care of for us - that even you, as you drive, fearful of the wheel - the thing will go along of itself and you won't go off the road and I can sleep.
Jack Kerouac
#68. On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.
Dean Koontz
#69. Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of the long journey we've taken. The loved ones who traveled alongside of us. Those we lost along the way. And those waiting for us on the road ahead.
Mary Alice
#70. It has been well over half a century and I'm glad to say we have taken the right path from authoritarianism to democracy and this is a road of no return.
Chen Shui-bian
#71. One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
Gore Vidal
#72. Every journey taken always includes the path not taken, the detour through hell, the crossroads of indecision and the long way home.
Shannon L. Alder
#73. Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again.
Cecelia Ahern
#74. After listening to so called experts it's not until you reach the end of the road that you begin to realise you've been taken down the wrong road.
Lou Silluzio
#75. If you're turned away from one road, there's always another
filled with risk but also adventure. Roads less taken are always the most rewarding ones.
Max Allan Collins
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