Top 100 Road Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Life is not the road or even the destination, but the journey,
Jaume Cabre
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. All roads were right for me, a wrong road was an event, for me.
Samuel Beckett
#8. Heaven to me's a fair blue stretch of sky, Earth's jest a dusty road.
John Masefield
#9. 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
#10. Ask the dust on the road! Ask the Joshua trees standing alone where the Mojave begins. Ask them about Camilla Lopez, and they will whisper her name.
John Fante
#11. Cooper was my road roommate, and also happened to be the first African American player drafted by a National Basketball Association team.
Bob Cousy
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.
Arthur Guiterman
#17. What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
Robert H. Schuller
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.
Terry Bradshaw
#21. Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.
William Shatner
#22. 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
#23. Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.
Erich Schiffmann
#24. I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.
Kenny Chesney
#25. Some people look for a certain structure in their lives that they're comfortable with. People who work hard on the road as truckers, people who work hard using their hands. Then there are people who are fortunate enough to have my life, people who play these characters who embody these qualities.
Adam Beach
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Every dangerous road is a good training for us to travel on the more dangerous roads!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. Being on the road is no excuse for having a poor diet. I don't like fast food, but if I have to, I'll order three plain grilled chicken sandwiches and throw out the buns.
Triple H
#38. To exercise no-thought and rest in nothing is the first step toward resting in Tao. To start from nowhere and follow no road is the first step toward attaining Tao.
Zhuangzi
#39. To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.
Henri Nouwen
#40. No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day, ... No road, no street, no t' other side the way, ... No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no buds.
Thomas Hood
#41. Don't smoke too much, drink too much, eat too much or work too much. We're all on the road to the grave - but there's no need to be in the passing lane.
Robert Orben
#42. During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.
Mohamed Latiff Mohamed
#43. The road I have travelled feels right to have found my home in you.
Joe
#44. Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs.
Larry Wall
#46. Leave it all on the track. Live with no regrets. Spend less time looking in life's rearview mirror and more time looking ahead at the road stretched before us and the opportunities that await. Why not, indeed?
Mike Dellosso
#47. To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.
Gustav Stresemann
#48. The world is wide, and the road will take us anywhere.
Katherine Arden
#51. Hail fellow well meet on the highway to madness. Madness is a small town very far away. Most of us, at some point, find we probably could walk there. Others have a road cave in and dump them there.
Helen Slavin
#52. She would try to paint. She would always try, for the road to perfection held an irresistible lure, even if the destination remained always tantalizingly just beyond the farthest horizon.
Mary Balogh
#53. The longest road trip I've ever been on is from Minnesota to Los Angeles.
Seann William Scott
#55. No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us.
V.S. Kemanis
#56. A mountian bike race is a constant hard effort for two to three hours. In road racing the efforts often come in surges. You ride easy for awhile then you have to make an extreme, hard effort. They are two different efforts, two different forms of suffering.
John Tomac
#57. Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.
Joni Mitchell
#58. The crossroads may not be of your own seeking, but at least the road you choose will be your own.
Dorothy Dunnett
#59. Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
Andre Geim
#60. When this flood blocks the road
I am worried more
by my soil getting washed,
than by getting late
to reach my destination.
Suman Pokhrel
#61. The road lay long and black ahead of them and the heat was coming now through the thin soles of their shoes. There were young beans pushing up from the dry brown fields, tiny rows of green sprigs that stretched away in the distance.
Larry Brown
#62. Follow the road behind the Emperor. We must build the world for Japan's sake, heaven ordered Japan to achieve this great mission.
Kingoro Hashimoto
#63. Twice a week I'll run fast quality workouts either on the track or road.
Jonathan Brown
#64. Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred.
Donald L. Hicks
#65. There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.
Steve Case
#66. She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.
Zora Neale Hurston
#67. The worst thing about the life of a jazz musician on the road is getting to the gig. Once you're there and playing, it's marvelous.
Dave Brubeck
#68. You have a great road map when you play somebody that exists. That's the amazing thing. But then you have great limitations from that road map. It's hard to deviate from it creatively as an actor. It's like, "Oh wait, he'd never do that."
Jeremy Renner
#69. Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road
late at night.
Kim Addonizio
#70. When you look at with fear, every road seems to be closed; when you look at with courage, every road seems to be open!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#71. People who stand in the "middle-of-the-road" get run over.
Rush Limbaugh
#72. There are some people who should not be allowed on the road. Maybe they shouldn't even be allowed to walk anywhere, either. Maybe we should hang a large sign around their neck saying 'Very Dangerous', or 'No Sense', or something like that.
Alexander McCall Smith
#73. Country music is so related to gospel. It seems I could go down that road pretty easily.
Dionne Warwick
#74. After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.
Nancy Sinatra
#75. I took the road less traveled...where the heck am I?
Brant Randall
#76. The road ahead was full of perils, he knew, but what of it? All men must die. All he asked was time.
George R R Martin
#77. 'College Road Trip' is colorless. It's not a black film. It's not a white film.
Kym Whitley
#78. I realized that I could have been in galleries much sooner. I just needed to get past the fear of rejection. I still feel nervous when I approach a new gallery, although it has become more like a job now. The first step on this long road was getting past that initial fear.
Mark Edward
#79. Take a ride on heavy metal, it's the only way that you can travel down that road.
Don Felder
#80. Change is just a bend in the road, not the end of the road.
Robin L. Smith
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. Every lie a person tells is an emotional dead end road that puts weight on the heart. Satisfaction is always in the truth.
Ron Baratono
#84. The road to publication can be rough, take snacks and a friend.
Elizabeth Hein
#85. Miracles happen quietly every day - in an operating room, on a stormy sea, in the sudden appearance of a road side stranger. They are rarely tallied. No one keeps score.
Mitch Albom
#87. Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road to social development more than the financial burden of war. War is the arch enemy of national progress and the modern scourge of civilized men.
King Hussein I
#88. There were days when Amory resented that life had changed from an even progress along a road stretching ever in sight, with the scenery merging and blending, into a succession of quick, unrelated scenes...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#89. Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.
Mary Pope Osborne
#90. each had felt that he was offered a choice between a shadow full of fear that lay ahead, and something that he greatly desired: clear before his mind it lay, and to get it he had only to turn aside from the road and leave the Quest and the war against Sauron to others.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#91. You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
Bill Murray
#92. Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with weary feet, Until it joins some larger way, Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#93. And whoever it is you love, Detective, use your time wisely. I'm at the end of this road, and you're at the beginning. Doesn't mean you have all the time in the world, though.
Kaje Harper
#94. Under his spurning feet, the road
Like an arrowly alpine river flowed
And the landscape sped away behind
Like an ocean flying before the wind ...
Thomas Buchanan Read
#95. We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.
George Harrison
#96. Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful.
Patrick Macnee
#97. We're not messing around tonight, I informed him as we reached the main road.
I never mess around. I'm all business in the sack.
Cara McKenna
#98. Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I'd obviously stop. And then I'd watch you die.
Kate to Will
Elizabeth Scott
#99. Four rehabs meant a fifth was somewhere down the road.
John Grisham
#100. One often meets her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it.
Jessi Kirby
