Back Roads Quotes

• Take the back roads instead of the highways.

  Minnie Pearl

  Travel, Highways

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• The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kindness, Greed, Everyday

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• You can't travel the back roads very long without discovering a multitude of gentle people doing good for others with no expectation of gain or recognition. The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. Some people out there spend their whole lives selflessly.

  Charles Kuralt

  Kindness, Long, People

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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 when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.

  Charles Kuralt

  Country, Book, Reading

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• I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management. At some point, I need to recharge.

  Blake Shelton

  Deer, Messages, Return

  "Basic Blake". Interview with Lori Berger, www.redbookmag.com. January 17, 2012.

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• If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

  Van Morrison

  Dream, Cracks, Steel

  "Song: 'Astral Weeks' ('Astral Weeks')". 1968.

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• I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.

  Charles Kuralt

  Littles, Towns, Encounters

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• You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.

  Dolly Parton

  Sex, Pay, Stranger

  Song: Gamble Either Way

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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

  Change, Blue, Color

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.11, University of Missouri Press

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• I saw all that [white trash] growing up in Alabama and Georgia. I had a group of country cousins and we'd go visit them when I was a kid. They lived on a red dirt Georgia back road, in a shack, with twelve kids. Farmers. No electricity, they had a well on their back porch, but they had nothing, yet they were the happiest, freest people I'd ever met. I loved to visit them. Great sense of humor, and they kept up with all the latest music, country, rockabilly, that stuff. Great food they grew in the fields and canned. Happy people.

  Steve Young

  Country, Cousin, Growing Up

  Source: www.outlawmagazine.com

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• Remarkably, [Sen. Dianne] Feinstein was reading her statement. So her mare's-nest of inapposite words and unclear thoughts cannot be excused as symptoms of Biden's Disease, that form of logorrhea that causes victims, such as Sen. Joe Biden, to become lost on the syntactical back roads of their extemporaneous rhetoric.

  George Will

  Reading, Biden, Disease

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• You can hear some artists, hear five of their albums and still have no idea who they are. But if you've heard most of what I've recorded, you know me. You go from 'Honesty' to 'Going Through Hell' - you can listen to the hits, and they pretty much reflect who I am. 'Take a Back Road' is the same thing.

  Rodney Atkins

  Honesty, Artist, Who I Am

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• I had to drive to Minneapolis once, and went on a back road just to see the country. But there was nothing to see. It's just flat and hot, and full of corn and soybeans and hogs. Every once in a while you come across a farm or some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Soybeans, Littles

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.5, VNR AG

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• I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

  Rodney Atkins

  Rocks, Singing, Crowds

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• Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.

  Mason Cooley

  Scepticism, Credo

  "City Aphorisms: Fourth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1987.

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