Roads Quotes
594 Roads quotes by 482 unique authors
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In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something.…
— Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.
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I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...
— Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.
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Some do not walk at all; others walk in the highways; a few walk across lots. Roads are made for horses and men of business.…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A tiny change today brings us to a dramatically different tomorrow. There are grand rewards for those who pick the high hard roads, but those…
— Richard Bach
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Not even the brightest future can make up for the fact that no roads lead back to what came before - to the innocence of…
— Jo Nesbo
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled,…
— Larry Wall
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When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since…
— Walter Russell Mead
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Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly…
— Richard Ballantine
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If the enemy is the invading party, we can cut his line of communications and occupy the roads by which he will have to return;…
— Du Mu
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You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression…
— Charles Kuralt
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A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He…
— Rajneesh
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The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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You never know what peace is until you walk on the shores or in the fields or along the winding red roads of Prince Edward…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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All roads that lead to God are good.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by…
— Walter Pater
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You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
— Bob Parsons
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Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for…
— Andre Breton
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Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.
— Joseph Joubert
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One would expect that private property taken by eminent domain would become land available for public use such as parks and roads. Unfortunately, this decision…
— Jim Ryun
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If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These are the white…
— Amiri Baraka
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On the old highway maps of America, the main routes were red and the back roads blue. Now even the colors are changing.
— William Least Heat-Moon
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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance.…
— Clive Bell
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From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for…
— Bev Perdue
Who Wrote These Roads Quotes
482 authors contributed a total of 594 Roads Quotes, led by these top contributors: