"The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness,……" — William Least Heat-Moon
"The open road is a beckoning, a strangeness, a place where a man can lose himself."
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William Least Heat-Moon
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40 Quotes by William Least Heat-Moon
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To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light,…
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No yesterdays on the road.
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Somewhere lives a bad Cajun cook, just as somewhere must live one last ivory-billed woodpecker. For me, I don't expect…
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Memory is each man's own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.
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Other than to amuse himself, why should a man pretend to know where he's going or understand what he sees?
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I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known…
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Whoever the last true cowboy in America turns out to be, he's likely to be an Indian.
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Life doesn't happen along interstates. It's against the law.
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At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.
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Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.
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Our religion keeps reminding us that we aren't just will and thoughts. We're also sand and wind and thunder. Rain.…
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To an American, land is solidity, goodness, and hope. American history is about land.
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More Beckoning Quotes
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Can anything match that first fine discovery of the telephone and all it stood for? That first realization that, contained…
— Alan Coren
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Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest…
— Oprah Winfrey
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The unknown is the province of the student; it is the field for his lifes adventure, and it is a…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Grace is the central invitation to life and the final word. It's the beckoning nudge and the overwhelming, undeserved mercy…
— Tim Hansel
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the…
— W. Eugene Smith
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The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of…
— Grey Owl
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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that…
— John Milton
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I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning…
— Anna Julia Cooper
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The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
— Freya Stark
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Democracy is always a beckoning goal, not a safe harbor. For freedom is an unremitting endeavor, never a final achievement.
— Felix Frankfurter
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My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us…
— Terence McKenna
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I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because…
— Elaine S. Dalton
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