Trails Quotes - Page 13

• There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?

  Dan Chaon

  Years, People, Twenties

  Dan Chaon (2009). “Among the Missing”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• I found her lying on her stomach, her hind legs stretched out straight, and her front feet folded back under her chest. She had laid her head on his grave. I saw the trail where she had dragged herself through the leaves. The way she lay there, I thought she was alive. I called her name. She made no movement. With the last ounce of strength in her body, she had dragged herself to the grave of Old Dan.

  Wilson Rawls

  Lying, Names, Feet

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• To be honest, there is a tourists' trail; my family had a farm and a gas station, and you can go and see my birthplace, though where I lived is actually under a freeway now.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Tourists, Gas Stations, Honest

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I get to keep you,” he said, staring at me with an intensity that made me shiver. “Keep me?” I asked, reaching up to kiss his chin and trail kisses down his perfect neck. “Not here. I can’t take much more, Pagan. I’m only so strong,” he said in a husky voice as he pulled me against his chest. “You’re mine now. While you walk the Earth you belong to me. Nothing can hurt you.” I heard a touch of humor in his voice. “It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

  Abbi Glines

  Strong, Hurt, Kissing

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• Love is a religion, and its rituals cost more than those of other religions. It goes by quickly and, like a street urchin, it likes to mark its passage by a trail of devastation.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love Is, Cost, Devastation

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• Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc says it's fine, nothing to worry about. Why dwell on it? But some people, they just can't let it go... Some people drink themselves out of school trying to find it again, trolling through bars where the shadows are so greasy they leave trails on the walls, just to find a way in, a way through. Some people forget too that you're supposed to stop sleeping, you're supposed to have a life in the sun.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dream, Wall, School

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• If I'm being forgiving of myself, I could say I'm somebody who was really hungry for experiences. The same thing that would make me go try to be a trail cook on a ranch was the same thing that would make me want to have sex with a couple cowboys while I was there.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Sex, Couple, Cowboy

  Interview with Rachel Khong, therumpus.net. October 29, 2012.

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• Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog.

  Robin Williams

  Beautiful, Country, Running

  Source: velonews.competitor.com

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• It was far in the sameness of the wood;
  I was running with joy on the Demon's trail,
  Though I knew what I hunted was no true god.

  Robert Frost

  God, Running, Joy

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• It is not for man to follow the trail of truth too far, since by so doing he entirely loses the directing compass of his mind.

  Herman Melville

  Truth, Men, Mind

  Herman Melville (2016). “The Ambiguities”, p.280, Herman Melville

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• Long hours
  trail in their purple
  and long years are lost
  in just this moment
  while our souls are near,
  our mouths separate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Years, Purple

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.

  Dave Barry

  God, Stupidity, Needs

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• Trails need to be wider so people can walk while holding hands.

  Dave Barry

  God, Hands, People

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• What's insulting to the American people, the Senate, to this whole process is that the Republicans, with all other nominees, have said Democrats are being obstructionist for wanting to see documents, for wanting to see a paper trail, for wanting to get questions answered in the judiciary committee hearings, and now all of a sudden, the Republicans want those things for this.

  Rachel Maddow

  People, Insulting, Paper

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When I spend my time out on the campaign trail, it's usually about what I can do for somebody else. I don't like talking about myself, I don't like the whole atmosphere of how people are judged in American politics too often as to what you say instead of what you do. And so for me it's always about what can I do for you? How can I help you?

  Hillary Clinton

  Talking, People, Atmosphere

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• You have this comet trail of your own lived life, sparks from which arrive in the head all the time, whether you want them or not - life has been lived but it is still all going on, in the mind for better and for worse.

  Penelope Lively

  Mind, Want, Sparks

  Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.51, Penguin

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• For me, challenging myself with this type of endeavor [ultramarathons] brings the best out in me because even at the darkest, deepest moments when I feel like I can't go on, when I feel like there's no chance I could break the record or much less finish the trail, somehow I find that strength inside of me.

  Scott Jurek

  Challenges, Records, Goes On

  Source: www.npr.org

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• For life is a fire burning along a piece of string--or is it a fuse to a powder keg which we call God?--and the string is what we don't know, our Ignorance, and the trail of ash, which, if a gust of wind does not come, keeps the structure of the string, is History, man's Knowledge, but it is dead, and when the fire has burned up all the string, then man's Knowledge will be equal to God's Knowledge and there won't be any fire, which is Life. Or if the string leads to a powder keg, then there will be a terrific blast of fire, and even the trail of ash will be blown completely away.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Ignorance, Men, Fire

  Robert Penn Warren (2006). “All the King's Men”, p.226, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

  Alexandra Kerry

  Father, United States, John Kerry

  Alexandra Kerry (2008). “Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out”, p.8, Rodale

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• Bobbie Ann Mason's genius only grows stronger and wiser and funnier with every new book, and Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail is my absolute favorite so far. What an ear she has for the telling phrase, what an eye for the heartbreaking detail. These new stories are stunning.

  Josephine Humphreys

  Book, Heart, Eye

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• Pessimism like calumny is easy to do, and attracts immediate attention. The gossiper and the writer may find this out soon enough, and a little encouragement from the current mood will procure them successes that bring endless imitators in their trail. On the other hand saying good things about life in general and individuals in particular and making it interesting is a serious task which few can achieve with credit.

  Bernard Berenson

  Encouragement, Hands, Calumny Is

  Bernard Berenson (1963). “Sunset and Twilight: From the Diaries of 1947-1958”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

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• I started writing "Peace Trail" here in Colorado, then I went back to California. I had a few other tunes going around in my head, so I had a couple of them finished after a few days and then I wanted to go into the studio.

  Neil Young

  Couple, Writing, California

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The earth covered with a sable pall as for the burial of yesterday; the clumps of dark trees, its giant plumes of funeral feathers, waving sadly to and fro: all hushed, all noiseless, and in deep repose, save the swift clouds that skim across the moon, and the cautious wind, as, creeping after them upon the ground, it stops to listen, and goes rustling on, and stops again, and follows, like a savage on the trail.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Dark, Moon

  Charles Dickens (1844). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.186, Chapman and Hall

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• Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

  Don Kardong

  Running, Kings, Adventure

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• Blaze your own trail in life. Make your own choices and make your own mistakes. It's the only way you'll find your own happiness, not someone else's.

  M. Leighton

  Mistake, Choices, Way

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