Top 100 The Road Quotes
#1. We got where we are because our choices mapped the route and paved the road.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#2. She thinks of the way angels arrive, when you lease expect them, when the road is dark, when you're bleeding and alone and hopeless, when you're sleeping in a basement, convinced that no one knows you're there.
Alice Hoffman
#3. Don't let obstacles along the road to eternity shake your confidence in God's promise. The Holy Spirit is God's seal that you will arrive.
David Jeremiah
#5. I regret less the road not taken than my all-fired hurry along the road I took.
Robert Breault
#6. Kids don't shuffle along in unison on the road to maturity. They slouch toward adulthood at an uneven, highly individual pace.
Robin Marantz Henig
#7. When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.
Shaun Alexander
#8. Winter is on the road to spring. Some think it a surly road. I do not. A primrose road to spring were not as engaging to my heart as a frozen icicled craggy way angered over by strong winds that never take the iron trumpets from their lips.
William Alfred Quayle
#9. History is the heavy traffic that prevents us from crossing the road. We're not especially interested in what it consists of. We wait, more or less patiently, for it to pause, so that we can get to the liquor store or the laundromat or the burger bar.
Mal Peet
#10. In better times, we're celebrate Christmas Eve by attending the nativity play at the Catholic church down the road, watching Joseph and Mary and Baby Jesus try to escape from Herod's soldiers and their wooden swords and AK-47s (it wasn't the most accurate version, but it was funny.)
William Kamkwamba
#11. The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons.
Pope John Paul II
#12. 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
#13. The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees,
The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,
The road was a ribbon of moonlight, over the purple moor,
And the highwayman came riding
Riding
riding
The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn-door.
Alfred Noyes
#14. Rough rides are smoother when you've got a passenger who understands the road.
R.K. Ryals
#15. I would need an awful lot of willpower to fight my way through the ups and downs of the road to recovery, and there might be times when I may feel a bit down and depressed, but there would be counsellors that I could talk to about how I was feeling.
Sue Whitaker
#16. I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned.
Dave
#17. The road to publication is like a churro - long and bumpy, but sweet.
Jay Asher
#18. Where the road bends abruptly, take short steps.
Ernest Bramah
#19. I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the road and you get in an accident, but most people end up driving down the road again. Surfing is you're going into their home and it's just a natural part of life.
Bethany Hamilton
#20. Those who complete the course will do so only because they do not, as fatigue sets in, convince themselves that the road ahead is still too long, the inclines too steep, the loneliness impossible to bear and the prize itself of doubtful value.
Thabo Mbeki
#21. If you're a die-hard "foodie," hop off the road in DuBois and enjoy a Subway sandwich made at a place that is eighty percent gas station.
Tina Fey
#22. Because if we're on the road to hell, we're going to dance the whole damn way and give them something to talk about when we're gone.
Deanna Raybourn
#23. I tell ya, southern people, they always think you are hard-of-hearing. Every timr you leave they say to you, You come back, you hear? And southern people, they think you are horny too. You get directions, they say, Just up the road apiece.
Rodney Dangerfield
#24. It used to be that you made an album and then you went on the road to promote that album, hoping for good record sales. Well, good record sales basically don't exist any more, and the emphasis has been more on the live show.
Alex Lifeson
#25. Nature is forever arriving and forever departing, forever approaching, forever vanishing; but in her vanishings there seems to be ever the waving of a hand, in all her partings a promise of meetings farther along the road.
Richard Le Gallienne
#26. My touring has never stopped; from the time I started doing stand-up, I've been on the road.
Lewis Black
#27. College girls on the road! One-night stands! Lee felt like an Austro-Hungarian emperor attended on his deathbed by flappers. He felt them stealing his life - literally going back in time and taking, through their incoherent lifestyles, the little he had struggled so hard to attain.
Nell Zink
#28. There were three thin wrinkles at her neckline, sharply etched, like notches on the road of life. Or maybe they were marks to commemorate when three wishes had come true - though Ushikawa had serious doubt that this had ever happened.
Haruki Murakami
#29. I'll be staying in touch and keeping my fans and friends updated on my progress. I'm looking forward to getting back on the road to give the people what they want,
Sharon Jones
#30. It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
Zachary Quinto
#31. The world is my oyster.
The road is my home.
And I know that I'm better off
Alone.
Ani DiFranco
#32. I find that fencing and training give me more stamina and help me deal with the craziness of being on the road so much.
Bruce Dickinson
#33. I would literally climb out of the cradle while my parents slept, go and crawl off. I did this a couple of times apparently. I'd cross the road and into someone's house, wake them up banging pots and pans in the kitchen.
Viggo Mortensen
#34. The Hideout is here to help you get through today and tomorrow. Be brave. It's not your fault. Remember, the road will get smoother and there is always hope that tomorrow will be better.
Naomi Wilkinson
#35. One rule of the road not directly stated elsewhere in this book: 'The editor is always right.' The corollary is that no writer will take all of his or her editor's advice; for all have sinned and fallen short of editorial perfection.
Stephen King
#36. So few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.
Emma Goldman
#37. Is it gonna take my breath now," Mizzy asked, "or, like, sometime down the road? I'd like to be prepared.
Brandon Sanderson
#39. I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.
Greg Wise
#40. I love going to work, doing acting. I love when I'm done with a movie or a TV show. I love hitting the road or being in the studio or going on tour. That's what I get off on. I don't need to have my business in the press and all that stuff. I'm pretty low key. It's all about the work for me.
Bryan Greenberg
#41. When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.
Sammy Hagar
#42. When I was a fighting-man, the kettle-drums they beat, The people scattered gold-dust before my horses feet; But now I am a great king, the people hound my track With poison in my wine-cup, and daggers at my back. - The Road of Kings. The
Robert E. Howard
#43. I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there.
Justin Townes Earle
#44. When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way ...
Ayumi Hamasaki
#45. 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
#46. Madonna, she still has not showed, we see this empty cage now corrode, where her cape of the stage once had flowed, the fiddler he now steps to the road, on the back of the fish truck that loads, while my conscience explodes.
Bob Dylan
#47. There are many roads,
there are many choices,
but never forget to chose the road of peace and happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.
Melody Beattie
#49. I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.
Roger Waters
#51. When I look at where I've been, I see that what I am becoming is a whole lot further down the road from where I was.
Gloria Gaither
#52. I love single life! Why would it be boring? I mean, I get to travel around and have loads of girls screaming at me, so it's definitely not boring. However, it can get lonely on the road, but I'm sorted I've got good people around me.
Olly Murs
#53. Sometimes you just make a contact, and it feels right, but you don't know why. But down the road, something will happen that will make it clear why that connection had to be made at the point it was made.
James Redfield
#54. The crushed carcasses of slugs and frogs mixing with the Cretaceous carbons of tar give the road an organic glaze.
Robert Michael Pyle
#55. It's a different feeling; I like touring and playing on the road better, but recording has its good spots.
Robbie Merrill
#56. It's great to be here. I thank you. Ah, I've been on the road doing comedy for ten years now, so bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this shit one more time.
Bill Hicks
#57. 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
#58. I do indeed write on the road. My laptop goes with me everywhere.
Nora Roberts
#59. I've been mocked a lot. I've been made fun of, you know, of the standards that I keep out, and that I hold out on the road and the way I conduct my business and myself and the way I behave in this business.
Josh Turner
#60. The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.
Vince Cable
#61. I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
Meghan Trainor
#62. I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road ...
Little Richard
#63. The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.
Bob Marley
#64. I don't know what's more nerve-wracking, job insecurity or job security. There's opportunities and things you compromise with both. When I had endless freedom of schedule, or when I commit to a movie for two months, then I could manage my music and go on the road.
Juliette Lewis
#65. After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.
David Lange
#66. You'd think they would train these SOE girls better, it's just sloppy.' Hans sipped his cognac. 'She looked the wrong way crossing the road, silly girl.
Kate Lord Brown
#67. The line storm clouds fly tattered and swift,
The road is forlorn all day, ...
Robert Frost
#68. Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#69. To possess a good cognomen is a long way on the road of success in life.
Nicolas Chamfort
#70. The two-way street of Total Information Awareness is the road that leads to a more transparent and complete picture of ourselves, our governments, and our world.
Newton Lee
#71. He had always admired his colleagues in the life and earth sciences who could hit the road on short notice with a fully stocked backpack and live rugged adventuresome lives in exotic locales. But he had admired them from a distance.
Neal Stephenson
#72. Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.
Tom Wilson
#73. My son traveled the world with me on every tour. He wasn't a lover of school, so it was easy with him. I had a tutor on the road, keep him at the same level, so when he'd pop back home he'd go right back in.
Gloria Estefan
#74. If I had it my way, I never would have left San Francisco, but things change and that's the nature of this business. We have to move on. We hopefully get opportunities down the road that we take advantage of.
Jeff Garcia
#75. Often I have encountered in life that great disappointments have proved to be the road to future successes.
George S. Patton
#76. I was thinking that I should be content to kiss him until the break of day. Bertrand ran out of kisses too soon; desire made them superfluous in his eyes. They were only a stage on the road to pleasure, not something inexhaustible and self-sufficient, as Luc had revealed them to me.
Francoise Sagan
#77. Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they're going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself.
Mike Birbiglia
#78. Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road ... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.
Henry Van Dyke
#79. Instead of going to college, I spent my time out on the road learning how to be a better musician.
Miranda Lambert
#80. I've been able to tour because of my music and I've learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think some of the imagery of my writing are snapshots of where I've been and my feelings about the world.
Aesop Rock
#81. I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
#82. If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.
Henry Mancini
#83. Everything in life, the good and the bad, happens for a reason. You shouldn't question it, you should accept it, and take it as a life lesson, because maybe, just maybe, that bad experience is leading you down the road to the greatest adventure of your life.
Micalea Smeltzer
#84. In the time of Jesus the mount of transfiguration was on the way to the cross. In our day the cross is on the way to the mount of transfiguration. If you would be on the mountain. you must consent to pass over the road to it.
Henry Clay Trumbull
#85. Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
Anna Quindlen
#86. I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.
Kathleen Hanna
#87. I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.
Tony D'Souza
#88. What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat-Moon
#89. It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it's just an absolutely huge win.
Peyton Manning
#90. The road climbed into the mountains, Jonah taking the hairpin curves as fast as he dared.
"You look so macho clutching the door handle that way," he said to Hamilton.
"Just ... be ... careful," Hamilton said through clenched teeth.
Jude Watson
#91. The world is lousy with Arab princes. And if we could have got Osama bin Laden, and saved at some point down the road 3,000 American lives, a few less Arab princes would have been OK in my book.
Michael Scheuer
#92. In a way, "failure" is just another word for "the journey," for not being there yet but on the way. It's the road we walk on to get wherever it is we're trying to go.
Sara Zarr
#93. No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#94. When you are moving toward an objective," said Petrus, "it is very important to pay attention to the road. It is the road that teaches us the best way to get there, and the road enriches us as we walk its length.
Paulo Coelho
#95. Women's golf definitely hit a bump in the road. We lost some tournaments due to a combination of things led by the downturn in the economy.
Hollis Stacy
#96. An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge the chasms between itself and eminent success by the most faithful and minute performances of duty.
Henry Ward Beecher
#97. The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
Cornel West
#98. When in doubt, take baby steps, taste the water and be cautious all the way. When assured, hit the road, jump in the sea and swim away from the shore to connect with your dreams
Sameh Elsayed
#99. What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.
Matt Millen
#100. Somehow, the road rises up to meet you Patch, when you are ready.
Michele Jennae
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