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Quotes About Roadside

Sweat was running down my face. The next turn wasn't too bad, and I noticed an old barn on the roadside, the roof caved-in, the windows empty holes, but I had already been distracted for too long, and the abyss came so close that I cried out. I
~ Daniel Kehlmann
Trempé jusqu'aux os, il restait interdit sur le bas-côté de la route, lorsqu'un nouvel éclair déchira le ciel et l'illumina, lui laissant une fraction de seconde pour déchiffrer le message inscrit sur l'autocollant fixé à l'arrière de la machine avant que celle-ci ne disparaisse. Il en resta bouche bée, n'en croyant pas ses yeux. Il venait de lire : Mon autre voiture est aussi une Porsche.
~ Douglas Adams
a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat
~ e. e. cummings
My car broke down just the other day, I called triple A, they came and towed me away!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Sometimes there's a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I've ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.
~ Billy Connolly
And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.
~ Robert J. Morrissette
If I saw you hitchhiking, I'd smile and return your thumb's up, just for you doing such a great job of being a positive roadside influence.
~ Jarod Kintz
All of which went to confirm Lad in the natural belief that anything found on the road and brought to the Mistress would be looked on with joy and would earn him much gratitude. So,—as might a human in like circumstances,—he ceased to content himself with picking up trifles that chanced to be lying in his path, in the highway, and fell to searching for such flotsam and jetsam.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
A ROADSIDE STAND WHICH SELLETH FRESH EGGS. 'Yes?' THIS ROADSIDE STAND IS NOT IMPORTANT. KEEP DRIVING. 'Apollo?
~ Rick Riordan
It was the sort of place one might imagine lorry drivers stopping for a sandwich
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.
~ Neil Gaiman
The sun was shining, and there, right there on the side of the road, was a flower stand, a homemade wooden table covered with painted tins of lupine and cream-colored roses. For a few minutes on that sun-drenched road, I believed that God might be working her magic.
~ Elizabeth Benedict
At noon they sat down by the roadside, near a little brook, and Dorothy
~ L. Frank Baum
There were no fences at all by the roadside now, and the land was rough and untilled. Toward evening they came to a great forest, where the trees grew so big and close together that their branches met over the road of yellow brick. It was almost dark under the trees, for the branches shut out the daylight; but the travelers did not stop, and went on into the forest.
~ L. Frank Baum
The weeping voices rise straight up and strike the clouds. A passer-by at the roadside asks a conscript why, The conscript answers only that drafting happens often.
~ Du Fu
The village of Polgardi is a dusty roadside settlement northeast of Lake Balaton, a resort area in western Hungary popular with German tourists.
~ Peter Landesman
When I travel in Tamil Nadu for shooting, I make it a point to eat at roadside eateries and drink tea/coffee at a tea stall.
~ Aishwarya Rajesh
In roadside diners and late-night cafeterias, hotel lobbies and station cafés, we may dilute our feeling of isolation in a lonely public place and hence rediscover a distinctive sense of community.
~ Alain de Botton
There were gas pumps. There
~ Lee Child
Twenty miles on, we have spotted a roadside sign: 'CHAINSAW CARVED MUSHROOMS'. Troubles promptly forgotten, Stuart falls to gawping at the road ahead. What could it all be about? 'As one victim to another,' his body language seems to marvel, 'what's a mushroom done to deserve that kind of abuse?' Not even in the worst days of street-fighting did he ever experience ill-treatment on this scale.
~ Alexander Masters
Birdfoot's Grampa The old man must have stopped our car two dozen times to climb out and gather into his hands the small toads blinded by our lights and leaping, live drops of rain. ******** The rain was falling a mist about his white hair and I kept saying you can't save them all accept it, get back in we've got places to go. But the leathery hands full of wet brown life knee deep in the summer roadside grass he just smiled and said they have places to go too.
~ Joan Halifax
You probably wouldn't remember, but that night you had Noah?" he said. "You hunkered down on the side of the road and held my shoulders while you pushed him out.
~ Joanna Wylde
michinobe no / mukuge wa uma ni / kuware keri16 The roadside thistle, eager To see the travellers pass, Was eaten by the passing ass! CHP Mallow flowers By the side of the road — Devoured by my horse. DK
~ Faubion Bowers
Olá, guardador de rebanhos, Aí à beira da estrada, Que te diz o vento que passa?"   "Que é vento, e que passa, E que já passou antes, E que passará depois. E
~ Fernando Pessoa