Quotes About Roads

Often we find our own destiny on the same roads that we have been avoiding.

The old farm roads a four lane that leads to the mall, and our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

That night, after the movie, driving my father's car along the country roads, I began to wonder how real the landscape truly was, and how much of a dream is a dream.

When you fly across the country in an airplane the country seems vast; but it isn't vast. It's all connected by roads one can ride a bike down. If you watch the news and there's a tragedy at a house in Kansas, that guy's driveway connects with yours, and you'd be surprised by how few roads it takes to get there.

All over Alabama the lamps are out. Every leaf drenches the touch; the spider's net is heavy. The roads lie there with nothing to use them. The fields lie there, with nothing at work in them, neither man nor beast.

We were a country of sages. They were all over the place, sometimes clogging the streets and roadways.

No sooner does an approaching hour become the present for us than it sheds all its charms, only to regain them, it is true, on the roads of memory, when we have left that hour far behind us, and so long as our soul is vast enough to disclose deep perspectives.

The fields were fruitful, and starving men moved on the roads.

And without fear the lawless roads Ran wrong through all the land.

War never changes. Men do. Through the roads they walk.

I want my dreams to come easy, good moments to pass slow, and each road I take lead me to where I want to go.

the memory of a certain image is only regret for a certain moment; and houses, roads, avenues are as fleeting, alas, as the years.

How many persons, cities, roads does not jealousy make us eager thus to know? It is a thirst for knowledge thanks to which, with regard to various isolated points, we end by acquiring every possible notion in turn except those that we require. We can never tell whether a suspicion will not arise, for, all of a sudden, we recall a sentence that was not clear, an alibi that cannot have been given us without a purpose.

That roads are for journeys, ma'am, not destinations

Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be.

Improvement makes strait roads: but the crooked roads without Improvement are roads of Genius.

Travel in Italy has always been difficult because of the hills and mountains. The Romans of ancient Italy were great engineers, and about 2,000 years ago they laid out a system of roads across the country to improve transport. Some of their routes are still in use today.

Roman engineering The Romans accomplished amazing feats of engineering as they built roads, bridges, and aqueducts (bridges for water conduits) across their empire. This 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct at Segovia, in central Spain, has 128 arches. No mortar was used to cement the large blocks of granite together. Good roads were one of the reasons for the success of the Roman Empire. They allowed troops and supplies to be moved swiftly, before the enemy could either attack or escape.

The second god lived by mountains that flowed By the blue shiny lit roads Had forgot what others still tried to grasp

Be the complex elegance of a melting candle. Be a map with 10,000 roads. Be the orange at sunset that outclasses the pink of sunrise. Be the self that dares to be true.

Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!

On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!

What is a defeat? It is just a good opportunity to make a new start, nothing else! Defeat is by no means a tragedy, but to consider it as a tragedy is in fact the greatest tragedy! In your every defeat, you must know that the paths of the victory never disappear; try those roads again!

As nossas estradas já tiveram a timidez dos rios e a suavidade das mulheres. E pediam licença antes de nascer. Agora, as estradas tomam posse da paisagem e estendem as suas grandes pernas sobre o Tempo, como fazem os donos do mundo.