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Quotes About Road

The road is always unreliable," the sandwich lady said. "It'll twist and turn on you. It'll duck and swerve and land you where you don't expect and you got no business being. You need your wits about you if you want to ride the road.
~ Salman Rushdie
an egotist addicted to obsequiousness and sycophancy who nevertheless longed for a different world, a world in which he could find exactly that man who was his equal, whom he could meet as his brother, with whom he could speak freely, teaching and learning, giving and receiving pleasure, a world in which he could forsake the gloating satisfactions of conquest for the gentler yet more taxing joys of discourse. Did such a world exist? By what road could it be reached?
~ Salman Rushdie
Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.
~ Rachel Naomi Remen
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.
~ George Santayana
Success is that place in the road where preparation meets opportunity.
~ Branch Rickey
Success is a ladder that cannot be climbed with your hands in your pocket - The road to success is always under construction
~ Lily Tomlin
No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.
~ Glenn Beck
I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.
~ Frederic Lawrence Knowles
In America religion is the road to knowledge, and the observance of the divine laws leads man to civil freedom.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
At midnight the wind in the trees can sound like the ocean. The moonlight can make a road appear as endless as the sea.
~ Alice Hoffman
She'll be imagining everything that's out in front of them, road and cloud and sky, all the elements of a future, the sort you have to put together by hand, slowly and carefully, until the world is yours once more.
~ Alice Hoffman
in the garden where the lilacs were so tall it was impossible to see the road. The leaves were dusty, the way they always were in August when the weather turned hot.
~ Alice Hoffman
I will not submit unheard. There may be powers that are not malignant travelling this accursed road. I shall leave them a record and an appeal.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The night was aromatic with the smell of autumn and the steely fragrance of freshly dampened blacktop. How she loved the smell of road: asphalt baking and soft in July, dirt roads with their dust-and-pollen perfume in June, country lanes spicy with the odor of crushed leaves in sober October, the sand-and-salt smell of the highway, so like an estuary, in February.
~ Joe Hill
How she loved the smell of road: asphalt baking and soft in high July, dirt roads with their dust-and-pollen perfume in June, country lanes spicy with the odor of crushed leaves in sober October, the sand-and-salt smell of the highway, so like an estuary, in February.
~ Joe Hill
Am I dreaming?" Bing asked. "I told you," Manx said. "The road to Christmasland is paved in dreams. This old car can slip right out of the everyday world and onto the secret roads of thought. Sleep is just the exit ramp. When a passenger dozes off, my Wraith leaves whatever road it was on and slides onto the St. Nick Parkway. We are sharing this dream together. It is your dream, Bing. But it is still my ride. Come. I want to show you something.
~ Joe Hill
Le gomme dell'auto erano così lisce che si poteva vedere quasi l'aria nelle ruote.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
My whole life was duality: Here's my life at home, here's my life on the road.
~ James Hetfield
I shall grow old, but never lose life's zest, because the road's last turn will be the best.
~ Henry Van Dyke
I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.
~ Rodney Atkins
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
The actor's life is the road. Always has been, always will be. That is his cross and his glory.
~ Nick Mancuso
The road is a fun place, and it's a great place to get out there and explore the country. But as far as the road life with the 'rock n' roll temptations,' there's not much of that with me.
~ Scotty McCreery
And I rose In a rainy autumn And walked abroad in shower of all my days High tide and the heron dived when I took the road Over the border And the gates Of the town closed as the town awoke.
~ Dylan Thomas