Road Takes You Quotes

#1. You can run, you can hide, you can choose not to see, but where the road takes you will always lead to me.

Jay McLean

#2. And from time to time you find your "county road" takes you onto a two-rutter and then a single rutter and then into a pasture and stops, or else it takes you into some farmer's backyard.

Robert M. Pirsig

#3. I've done a road trip across Italy with a girlfriend, and that was very romantic. I think that road trips are probably one of the romantic things you can do. To take your girlfriend and just stay wherever; don't have a destination and just drive and see where the road takes you is pretty cool.

Christopher Egan

#4. I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

John Kendrick Bangs

#5. We all hurt. We all love. We're the same. And your past, who you live with, where you came from, it doesn't have to matter. You're creating your own future, and I want to see where the road forward takes you.

Elle Kennedy

#6. Repentance prepares the way and makes the road of our hearts straight. Repentance builds up every low place and takes down every high place in our lives and church families. Repentance prepares us for His presence.

Tommy Tenney

#7. If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

Steve Carell

#8. When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

Aeschylus

#9. It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.

Bernard Hopkins

#10. The tall team takes the low road into the lead

Martin Tyler

#11. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

Alexander Pope

#12. Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

Herbert Hoover

#13. There are mornings on this road trip as the early light gathers itself, something quite unexpected happens. My camera pushes me aside and takes on a life of it's own, conspiring with nature and becoming a veritable paintbrush. I'd like to take credit for the end result, but I know it would be a lie.

Stephen Braxton Thompson

#14. We recall that to the Cherokee, as to other people who have noticed how long it sometimes takes for humans to develop fully, adulthood comes
if it is coming at all
at the age of fifty-two.

Alice Walker

#15. On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road ... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.

Kit Harington

#16. It's courage, not luck, that takes us through to the end of the road.

Ruskin Bond

#17. [...] we all die, and the length of our life has been set before the earth was formed. Sometimes God takes the little ones to keep the eyes of the rest of the family on Heaven. They will never forget where this road leads if one of their own has already come to the end of it.

Susan Claire Potts

#18. Life takes up one long, winding road to fulfill its seemingly endless journey, and when we find ourselves stumble upon forks in the road, we choose wisely.

Amani Abbas

#19. The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.

Francis Bacon

#20. My life had been like a painter who climbs up a road overhanging a lake that is hidden from view by a screen of rocks and trees. Through a gap he glimpses it, he has it all there in front of him, he takes up his brushes.

Marcel Proust

#21. As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only and wholly what he must.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. Sissy,travelling down the road with you was all I have ever wanted in life.
The beauty of it! No matter how long this takes, I'll wait.

Josephine Hart

#23. I want to be the thought that takes your mind off the road and your hand off the steering wheel.

Malak El Halabi

#24. One often meets her destiny on the road she takes to avoid it.

Jessi Kirby

#25. I love watching movies. It breaks up the monotony of the road and momentarily takes you somewhere else.

Santigold

#26. I love stand up, but every year, the road takes a little more out of you.

Bill Engvall

#27. At certain times of the day, and at particular bends in the road or curves of the shore, Cyprus is still so lovely that it takes you by the throat.

Christopher Hitchens

#28. Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It

C. G. Jung

#29. A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership

Aron Nimzowitsch

#30. The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.

Carrot Top

#31. I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris ... and then I will walk.

Shane Koyczan

#32. The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind of sectarian competition that has torn so many nations apart, and which our separation of church and state has spared us.

David Saperstein

#33. Without road maps fate just takes over to create random events.

Steven Redhead

#34. I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.

Russell Simmons

#35. We alternate choosing places to go, but we also have to be willing to go where the road takes us. This means the grand, the small, the bizarre, the poetic, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising. Just like life. But absolutely, unconditionally, resolutely nothing ordinary.

Jennifer Niven

#36. Before us lay a painful road, And guidance have I sought in duteous love From Wisdom's heavenly Father. Hence hath flowed Patience, with trust that, whatsoe'er the way Each takes in this high matter, all may move Cheered with the prospect of a brighter day.

William Wordsworth

#37. That's all it takes, you see
a moment of kindness. Someone who is sweet and understanding, who seems to be sent there like an angel on the road to get you through the nightmare.

Edith Hahn Beer

#38. Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#39. We make our own destiny, not because we can see the road ahead, but because we cannot see the road ahead. It is the road, the motion, the forward movement, that takes us to ourselves.

Chloe Thurlow

#40. Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

Augusten Burroughs

#41. 'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.

Viggo Mortensen

#42. To think that all we've known to be true is not necessarily an absolute is unsettling and almost incomprehensible, and so to walk the road of acceptance and peace often takes more courage than the way of the warrior.

R.A. Salvatore

#43. I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.

Jane Powell

#44. Empathic listening takes time, but it doesn't take anywhere near as much time as it takes to back up and correct misunderstandings when you're already miles down the road; to redo; to live with unexpressed and unsolved problems; to deal with the results of not giving people psychological air.

Stephen Covey

#45. Hopeless emptiness. Now you've said it. Plenty of people are onto the emptiness, but it takes real guts to see the hopelessness.

Richard Yates

#46. You can say the sun is shinning if you really want to
I can see the moon and it seems so clear
You can take the road that takes you to the stars now
I can take the road that'll see me through

Nick Drake

#47. We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

Joel Coen

#48. I get the urge to feel it, too, so when she takes her hand away, I turn her toward me and I feel the edges of New Jersey. I kiss Hoboken and Atlantic City. I kiss Newark and Trenton. I kiss Camden, and then I follow the road west, over the Walt Whitman Bridge into Pennsylvania. And I kiss home.

A.S. King

#49. It takes incredible fortitude to keep on the road, even though it's fun and it's rewarding and you can't complain, it's just a great life, but it takes a lot of energy.

Kate Pierson

#50. Climb up when you have to climb up; climb down when you have to climb down! Whatever slope the road takes, let it be your slope as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#51. Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part.

Anselm Kiefer

#52. The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don't be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

Sally Ride

#53. I told my mom I was going to do a movie about a son who hears a story about his mom and takes her on a cross-country road trip, and I wanted to actually take the trip with my mom to see what it would be like to drive cross-country with your mom.

Dan Fogelman

#54. Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There's no how-to road map to style. It's about self-expression and, above all, attitude.

Iris Apfel

#55. War is a difficult time for everybody - for soldiers on the front and for the people on the road. War takes away from us everything that we know, as we know it. It gives us a blank slate to re-write our lives and for ink it gives us blood.

Preeti Bhonsle

#56. I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day's schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

Matthew McConaughey

#57. Calamities are unavoidable, in love and travel.

All it takes to make it to the end of the road are some good Survival Tips.

Vivian Swift

#58. When you are on tour in the UK it takes a few hours to get anywhere. A lot of the time you can have a beer, close your eyes for two minutes, and then you are there. In the U.S. it is much more like a road trip as all the cities are so spread apart.

Kelly Jones

#59. I don't care that you don't want anyone to look after you. I want to look after you. I want to be with you, Maci. I want to see where the road takes us together, and I want to hold your fucking hand, whether it's shaking or not. Do you understand?

Cherie M. Hudson

#60. It's a road movie [Valentine]. I mean, yes. We film it here and it takes place from basically Colorado to Louisiana. That's the road trip. So we're all over the place. We go through bits of Texas and bits of Oklahoma.

Todd Farmer

#61. It takes time,patience and endurance to become a devout Muslim. No one, not even God, expects anyone to become an angel overnight. That's fortunate, I thought, because I sensed that the road ahead might be a long one

Kristiane Backer

#62. The reason I'm drawn to it is - both the off road racing and the motorcycles on the track - it takes a lot for me to quiet my brain and anything that requires 100% of my attention and focus I find very soothing and that is the closest I get to being content.

Dax Shepard

#63. There are so many numerical financial flaws in ObamaCare. Young people realize I'll take the penalty. I'll deal with whatever it takes for the next couple of years. Maybe a couple years down the road, they will start to pay.

Eric Bolling

#64. I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

Mary Frann

#65. To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites.

Samuel R. Delany

#66. A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

Brian Regan

#67. Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.

Karen Hesse

#68. Lincoln Road that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty. Lincoln wrote that sorrow is most difficult for the young because it, "takes them unawares." The old, he said, have learned to anticipate difficulty.

Richard Brookhiser

#69. The virtuous man takes the middle road between the two extremes, making a point of being respectful of his own ideas without changing his personality or style.

Auliq Ice