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Quotes About Trail

They were fortunate as I had a couple of unusual mutations in my mtDNA, which makes it very recognizable, but it was still somewhat shocking to find that my DNA had left a contaminating trail across the museums of Europe! As Alan Cooper is jokily fond of accusing paleoanthropologists, in terms of the contamination of fossils he has tried to study, "You are all very dirty people!
~ Chris Stringer
The sidewalk wasn't quite wide enough, so Quentin trailed after them, like a sulky child.
~ Lev Grossman
You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. It is a blood-trail.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Every time I set foot on that trail, I feel grateful for the PCTA for doing the work it does to protect and preserve it
~ Cheryl Strayed
For the pride of trace and trail was his, and sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.
~ Jack London
I decided to hike up to Cerro Potosí, the hill above the town, beyond Tangamanga Park. The guidebook recommended good shoes, water, and long pants against the agave lechuguilla—thorny agave. I started on a cool morning, setting out on the trail
~ Paul Theroux
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
~ Paul Klee
murdered. Michael had left a trail of bodies
~ Danielle Steel
Marks from Debbie Watson's feet.
~ David Baldacci
There are monkeys in the bottoms In those tall white sycamores. There are monkeys in the bottoms, Worth a million or more. "So come along, Old Rowdy, And let's get on the trail Of a hundred dollar monkey. We'll catch him by the tail.
~ Wilson Rawls
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
~ Winston S. Churchill
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a trance as the ground zips by," Kerouac wrote. "Trails are like that: you're floating along in a Shakespearean Arden paradise and expect to see nymphs and fluteboys, then suddenly you're struggling in a hot broiling sun of hell in dust and nettles and poison oak… just like life.
~ Christopher McDougall
Don't fight the trail, take what it gives you. If you have a choice between one step or two between rocks, take three.
~ Christopher McDougall
Then they were up and gone, hard on Johnny Sandoval's heels. By the time Ann Trason arrived at the aid station, Martimano Cervantes and Juan Herrera were out of sight.
~ Christopher McDougall
Leicester stared fixedly at the image before him, the color bleached from his face by its brilliance. Seph sensed the headmaster's mind questing out, trying to discover and destroy the wizard behind the image, but finding nothing, no trail of magic, no stone, no flesh and blood to focus on. Jason Haley, the puppeteer, was safely ensconced in the gallery above.
~ Cinda Williams Chima
Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.
~ Clarice Lispector
The toughest trail I ever ran was the Escarpment in the Catskills of New York State. This was an 18-mile race through Rip Van Winkle country, routed through boulder fields, across angular juttings of granite and along a path with an unrelenting barrage of roots, rocks and mud, all of it hidden under slick leaves and dangling nettles.
~ Don Kardong
Apparently the police were hot on the trail of the Tamiami Butcher. There were no specifics available, but Captain Matthews got a lovely sound bite. He made it seem like he would personally make the arrest as soon as he finished his coffee.
~ Jeff Lindsay
And once again, I realized that it spoke the truth. I was hungry. Very hungry, in fact. I am blessed with a total lack of conscience, but my keen sense of hunger takes its place quite ably and keeps my feet on the proper trail. And with a jolt of guilt that very nearly approached panic, I realized I'd had no dinner. What had I been thinking? There was no excuse for such rash and careless behavior. Shame on Dexter.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
~ Robert Motherwell
Evidence," Mayne insisted. "That's how you capture criminals and put them in prison. Every criminal leaves a trail. Look for it. Follow it. I want details.
~ David Morrell
I like the trail that the Internet created. For example, I was watching one of those Douglas Sirk movies, and I noticed that Rock Hudson towered over everyone, and I typed in How tall was and I saw How tall was Jesus, and I'm like, Sure, and half an hour later you're somewhere you didn't expect to be. It doesn't work that same way in books, does it? Even if you have an encyclopedia, the trail isn't that crazy. I like that aspect of it.
~ David Sedaris
No trail to follow where the teacher has wandered off- the end of autumn.
~ Yosa Buson
He smiled a little wearily. "Wal, old — trail driver, we pay," he whispered, feebly. "I reckon — I cain't — wait for — little gray-eyed — Ann!".
~ Zane Grey