Top 100 Road Quotes
#1. There is one Now: the spot where I stand, And one way the road goes: onward, onward.
David Teague
#2. Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling.
Edward Hoagland
#3. We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
Tony Snow
#4. All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
Jack Kerouac
#5. I saw a fleet of fishing boats ... I flew down almost touching the craft and yelled at them, asking if I was on the right road to Ireland. They just stared. Maybe they didn't hear me. Maybe I didn't hear them. Or maybe they thought I was just a crazy fool.
Charles Lindbergh
#6. Focus not on what he or she does, but on keeping to your higher purpose. Your own purpose should seek harmony with nature itself. For this is the true road to freedom.
Epictetus
#7. Like any family, like any group - the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, EPMD, Public Enemy - they've had bumps in the road. I just think that because A Tribe Called Quest is so precious to fans, they were concerned about unveiling some of those things.
Michael Rapaport
#8. There are a thousand paths into the future, forks after forks in the road ahead. Who knows, if one road closes, maybe another opens in another universe . . . and your soul, your consciousness, leaps over to continue that journey ever forward, always finding the right path.
James Rollins
#9. Learning how to make The Path to My Heart an everyday journey...the road MORE travelled
Donna Guillemette
#10. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.
C.S. Lewis
#11. For my band's debut tour in 2011, we road-tripped across the country in a 15-passenger van. It was the first time I'd left Alabama. I drove through scenery I'd only ever seen in calendars: auburn leaves falling in Vermont, the sun setting over purple mountains in Arizona. It was incredible.
Brittany Howard
#12. And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your death is a table in a book. You had our wit, our heart was sealed to you: Man is the judgment of the world.
Randall Jarrell
#13. Every road I walked would take me down to the sea
With every broken promise in my sack
And every love would always send the ship of my heart
Over the rolling sea
Sting
#14. I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
Patrick Fischler
#15. If everything was super easy and I didn't have to face the odd bump in the road or difficult time then I guess my 'resilience muscles' wouldn't be in such good shape.
Jan Hellriegel
#16. What's the bravest thing you ever did?
He spat in the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said.
Cormac McCarthy
#17. I have bougainvillea and a magnolia tree outside my window. Not that anything will ever beat the view I had from my desk window in my little farmhouse in Nebraska. Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side.
Meghan Daum
#18. To walk an endless road
Me
#19. Problems are always there for those who are looking for them
So look for the solution, not the road block or the problem.
Debasish Mridha
#20. All that night he followed bends of the black road jeweled by starlight until the wan light of the dawn touched the east with red and the pastures turned green. (pg. 76)
Robert Olmstead
#21. I went on the road with Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was out campaigning.
Casey Wilson
#22. I'd recommend the high road to anybody. You wonder about it and you don't really appreciate it until you do it and you find that it worked for everyone. But I recommend it.
Curtis Joseph
#23. I believe we can and should have it all. Lower deficits but higher spending. More peace with a bigger military that goes off and kills terrorists and whatnot. A cleaner environment without forcing SUVs off the road.
Craig Armstrong
#25. But we Americans scrap relationships that are not working as we would like -- whether they be with relatives, with spouses, or with friends. We dispose of them like Kleenex. When it is inconvenient, painful, difficult, I get rid of you. I hit the road.
Stuart Miller
#26. Fear is not my portion, limitation is not my portion for that reason I will dream massive dreams and I will continue to dream until the end of my road.
Euginia Herlihy
#27. But what I do love about this road is how the gaudy becomes grand, how tastelessness is a way of everyday life
Michael Zadoorian
#28. Let today be the day you embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those living in the dark. Light their path so the road traveled will be seen more clearly. You never know how much a simple act of kindness is appreciated if you never try. Be that candle for someone today and shine bright.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#29. For men, as they get bogged down with responsibilities, commitments, bureaucracy, it is a fantasy just to think of shedding everything literally, walking away with nothing at all, and just hitting the road.
Lee Child
#30. Vision, the challenge of the next century, the new millennium, the road ahead.
Michael Lewis
#31. This ain't no upwardly mobile freeway, oh no, this is the road to hell.
Chris Rea
#32. I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still.
Jami Attenberg
#33. That's my personality - to end up taking the hardest road possible to get to the top. But I think I will get there.
Cub Swanson
#34. My parents were serious working musicians, but they were not stars - not like pop stars that you have now. They had to make a living and that meant touring, working hard, going on the road - and we were roped in.
Rufus Wainwright
#35. Her on the side of the road? He ran a hand through his wet hair, wishing he could
Bella Andre
#36. And a recent study revealed that American politicos spend more on Uber than on regular taxis when campaigning, a strong indication that the road ahead is likely to remain clear.
Anonymous
#37. When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.
Charlie Chaplin
#38. My reality is at the end of the dream. When I walk down the road of life, searching for the door that will guide me to my reality, I am merely walking to confirm there is nothing there.
Lionel Suggs
#39. Walking along, I occasionally had to stop by the side of the road to spit out the mucus that kept rising in my throat. It rather pleased me to think of the malignant tubercle bacilli that I had brought from Japan being scorched to death under the tropical sun.
Shohei Ooka
#40. Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.
Michael A. Ledeen
#42. Their heart does not allow them to practise duplicity: if they see their friend straying from the road, or committing any faults, they will speak to her about it; they cannot allow themselves to do anything else.
Teresa Of Avila
#43. OH, I LIKE smoking, I do. I smoke for my health, my mental health. Tobacco gives you little pauses, a rest from life. I don't suppose anyone smoking a pipe would have road rage, would they?
David Hockney
#44. I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.
Gloria Steinem
#45. God never closes one door in our lives without opening a new one. Many times it's a much better road for us behind that new door, if we just trust in his love for us and take the new path.
Heather McBride
#47. The bluff on which Natchez sat was huge, and the road zigged and zagged and curled and twisted and dropped - like something Dr. Seuss might have imagined in a book titled The Cat in the Hat Drinks Blood.
Faith Hunter
#48. White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.
Luther Standing Bear
#49. Worried moon
I'm afraid of what's to come
Worried moon
Yeah, tell me what you know
Worried moon
You see further down the road
Worried moon
Chris Cornell
#50. When you're on the road a lot, you're in perpetual search of a good night's sleep.
Artie Lange
#51. When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.
Robert Genn
#52. Is there a home, a home for me? Where the people stay until eternity? Is there a road that winds up, underneath the big green tree? Is there a home, a home for me?
Stan Ridgway
#53. Why did the entrepreneur cross the road? Because he could make more money on the other side.
Charles Wheelan
#54. They headed north, their taxi joining a sea of yellow cabs weaving up the Avenue of the Americas. The Russians saw there were lanes painted in the road, but that was clearly part of an ancient custom from some long-forgotten people.
Tim Dorsey
#55. The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert Einstein
#56. Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world ... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
John Powell
#57. Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.
Alexander Chee
#58. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.
Lauren Oliver
#59. What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
Robert H. Schuller
#60. God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.
Arthur Guiterman
#61. To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only him who goes before and no more the road which is too hard for us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#62. He looked over at me. "Indigo," he said. "Cyan". He glanced at the road in front of him, glanced at me. He reached over and ran his fingers down one of the darkest strands in the back, where I'd used a little purple. "Violet.
Jennifer Echols
#63. The road to happily ever after was bumpy and full of potholes, but I never had any doubt I was on the right road." "I can't even locate the on ramp, let alone the road.
Marie Force
#64. 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
#65. Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
Bob Cousy
#66. But that's the beauty of life: time is yours to keep and to change. Just a few minutes can be sufficient to carve a new road, a new track
Lauren Oliver
#67. My coffee was wedged in the cup holder in the center console. Sometimes I wondered what would happen to modern American life between dawn and 10 a.m. if Starbucks vanished. Talk about road rage.
William Casey Moreton
#68. Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.
John Masefield
#69. All roads were right for me, a wrong road was an event, for me.
Samuel Beckett
#70. May I be like a guard for those who are protectorless,
A guide for those who journey on the road.
For those who wish to go across the water,
May I be a boat, a raft, a bridge.
Shantideva
#71. The group started getting bigger and bigger, so Al started replacing Brian on the road, and then finally there was a big flare-up with Dave Marks and he left the group.
Bruce Johnston
#72. Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not, seek their own kind.
Jean-Henri Fabre
#73. Life is not the road or even the destination, but the journey,
Jaume Cabre
#74. Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
James Ellroy
#76. Even when we turn around, there are no footprints behind us ...
Nor the road we came along, nor the tune we hummed ...
When we die,
No-one will know it's happened
Kazuya Minekura
#77. In a way, 'On the Road's greatest victory is that nobody's eyes will be opened any longer by reading it; the last time I met any young people who were actually 'on the road' was when I covered Occupy St. Louis. Those few, dirty kids were fighting a battle even they couldn't articulate.
Tony D'Souza
#78. Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#79. The brain can be a wonderful tool, can be a willing slave, as has been evidenced by some men, but of course it works poorly when it has not the habit of usage. An automobile can become a source of delight, but the first time you drive you are as apt to go up a tree as to go up the road.
Robert Henri
#80. I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.
Drew Barrymore
#81. Every dangerous road is a good training for us to travel on the more dangerous roads!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm.
Che Guevara
#83. Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Frank Herbert
#84. Back when I was helping put the swing into the swinging '60s, I used to hang out with Cathy McGowan. We'd be doing 'Ready Steady Go!' on T.V., and Biba used to make our dresses. We'd be in the flat in Cromwell Road on Friday night, just before the live show, and they'd still be sewing.
Cilla Black
#85. There is perhaps no surer road to peace than the one that starts from little islands and oases of genuine kindness, islands and oases constantly growing in number and being continually joined together until eventually they ring the world.
Dominique Pire
#86. But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.
John Sebastian
#87. Look, I want to say,
The worst thing you can imagine has already
Zipped up its coat and is heading back
Up the road to wherever it came from.
Tracy K. Smith
#88. Taking the high road is always the best way to go. You feel better about yourself, and the world feels better about you.
Tim Gunn
#89. It certainly is a puzzle." He turned back to the broken road. "But sometimes to find the answer, you have to take a leap of faith.
Dianna Hardy
#90. I practice a faith that's been long abandoned Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road
Bob Dylan
#91. My father did not have to trade dying alone for the joys of the road. My mother did not have to give up a journey of her own to have a home. Neither do I. Neither do you.
Gloria Steinem
#92. I play basketball all the time. Me and my band play every week on the road. That's something that I've never really given up since high school.
Josh Turner
#93. I believe the greatest successes you will ever attain are still waiting for you on the road ahead.
Brian Tracy
#94. Do you know the wish of your heart? - The Darkest Road
Guy Gavriel Kay
#95. Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.
Tamara L. Chilver
#96. No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
#97. For me there is a poesis, a poetics, around the trope of the road that is embedded within many life experiences of the people I've been close to.
Anne Waldman
#98. Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#99. Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.
William Shatner
#100. Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.
Alan Keyes
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