Road Is Rough Quotes

#1. Because the road is rough and long,
Shall we despise the skylark's song,
That cheers the wanderer's way?
Or trample down, with reckless feet,
The smiling flowerets, bright and sweet,
Because they soon decay?

Anne Bronte

#2. We know how rough the road will be, how heavy here the load will be, we know about the barricades that wait along the track, but we have set our soul ahead upon a certain goal ahead and nothing left from hell to sky shall ever turn us back.

Vince Lombardi

#3. They say that life is a highway and its milestones are the years,And now and then there's a toll-gate where you buy your way with tears.It's a rough road and a steep road and it stretches broad and far,But at last it leads to a golden Town where golden Houses are.

Joyce Kilmer

#4. It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#5. I kind of went through a rough period. I could have kept going down that road and then off the cliff and into the ocean.

Nikki Reed

#6. The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.

Elizabeth Hein

#7. When the road looks rough ahead, remember the 'Man upstairs'
and the word HOPE.
Hang onto both and 'tough it out'.

John Wayne

#8. I kept giving up runs. It was, for sure, a rough road and a very rocky one. I enjoyed my time there, but not as much as I could have if I would have pitched well.

Billy Koch

#9. No one put a gun to your head and ordered you to become a writer. One writes out of his own choice and must be prepared to take the rough spots along the road with a certain equanimity, though allowed some grinding of the teeth.

Stanley Ellin

#10. If you drive fast enough on a rough road you glide over the bumps and skim the pot holes - it's a smooth ride. If you charge without fear over boulders and beach debris it's the same as running on hard flat sand. The only problem is slowing down, or stopping.

Matt Padwick

#11. I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind.

Maria Mitchell

#12. I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Kim Basinger

#13. The easy, gentle, and sloping path ... is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

Michel De Montaigne

#14. Rough rides are smoother when you've got a passenger who understands the road.

R.K. Ryals

#15. Our path is sometimes rough and sometimes smooth; nonetheless, life is a constant journey ... whatever we do is regarded as our journey, our path. That path consists of opening oneself to the road, opening oneself to the steps we are about to take.

Chogyam Trungpa

#16. Three things differentiate living from the soul verses living from the ego only: the ability to sense and learn new ways, the tenacity to ride a rough road, and the patience to learn deep love over time.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#17. The right path is characterised by rough road.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. It is better to travel on the rough right road than smooth wrong way.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. Those who live by God's law will walk through the rough roads of life shielded by God's love and faithfulness. Psalm 25:10.

Felix Wantang

#20. Providence has a wild, rough, incalculable road to its end, and it is of no use to try to whitewash its huge, mixed instrumentalities, or to dress up that terrific benefactor in a clean shirt and white neckcloth of a student in divinity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. Life has its share of joys and laughter - but we also know life's road is often very rough. Temptations assail us; people disappoint us; illness and age weaken us; tragedies and sorrows ambush us; evil and injustice overpower us. Life is hard - but God is good, and heaven is real!

Billy Graham

#22. I've got a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. Said, it's a hard road to travel and a rough, rough way to go. But I can't turn back, my heart is fixed, my mind's made up, I'll never stop, my faith will see me through.

Jimmy Cliff

#23. Well, I got pretty good and went on the road with a group. We starved. At that time I didn't realize that you'd work one gig in Kansas City, the next in Florida and the next gig will be in Louisville. You know, a thousand miles a night. That was really rough, man.

Wes Montgomery

#24. Ever notice the word 'rough' in through? There is truth to that, though the way may be rough, we are still able to get through it.

Anthony Liccione

#25. Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning.

Hesiod

#26. But sometimes one must travel the rough road to reach one's ultimate destination.

Karen Hawkins

#27. Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he's still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!

Michael Owen Bruce

#28. We are the road that winds down a sound mind, then slips into the sea.

Anthony Liccione

#29. O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

Robert Burns

#30. It gives me great pleasure to converse with the aged. They have been over the road that all of us must travel, and know where it is rough and difficult and where it is level and easy.

Plato

#31. Behold yon rough and flinty road
Where youth, now youth no more,
Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves
He cast away of yore.

Emma Ghent Curtis

#32. Kids who enter 'adulthood' without any strong attachments to people who know and care about them have a rough road ahead, to say the least.

Rhea Perlman

#33. The road may be beautiful or ugly; it may be easy or hard, smooth or rough, it doesn't matter; what matters most is where the road will take you!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#34. Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole in it. So have your breeches.

George Canning

#35. I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.

Holly Marie Combs

#36. My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

Dan Quayle

#37. All in all, it was the goldarndest, Barnum-and-Baileyest, rib-stickinest, rough-and-tumblest infernal foofaraw of a media circus anybody had seen since grandpaw chased the possum down the road and lost his store teeth, and I was heartily sorry to have been a part of it.

John Varley

#38. People started down the road with good intentions, but the moment the road became rough or difficult, they'd abandon it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#39. Oh Jake, my love for you doesn't stop just because there's a rough patch in the road, or I don't get what I want.

Katie Ashley

#40. Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother, Bearing his load on the rough road of life? Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other, In blackness of heart - that we war to the knife? God pity us all in our pitiful strife

Joaquin Miller