Highways Quotes

• Beauty is and always will be blue skies and open highway.

  Dave Hickey

  Blue, Sky, Blue Sky

  Dave Hickey (2012). “The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded”, p.91, University of Chicago Press

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• Life is a highway - the enjoyment you get depends on the lane you choose.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Life, Lanes, Enjoyment

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• There is a road, no simple highway, between the dawn and the dark of night, and if you go, no one may follow, that path is for your steps alone.

  Robert Hunter

  Dark, Simple, Night

  Robert Hunter, David G. Dodd (2005). “The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• The best path through life is the highway.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Path, Life Is

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• Everything good is on the highway.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Travel

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.254, Harvard University Press

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• Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.

  Napoleon Hill

  Cities

  Napoleon Hill, Judith Williamson (2008). “Timeless Thoughts for Today”, p.104, Jaico Publishing House

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• The way of truth is like a great highway. It is not hard to find.

  Mencius

  Way, Truth Is, Hard

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• Highways are full of careless drivers who are always too close in front of you.

  Sam Ewing

  Careless, Drivers, Fronts

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• Take the back roads instead of the highways.

  Minnie Pearl

  Travel, Back Roads

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• Failure is... the highway to success.

  Og Mandino

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• There was a reason why there was only a single stairway to heaven, but an entire highway to hell.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Heaven, Reason Why, Hell

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2014). “Illusion: Number 5 in series”, p.168, Hachette UK

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• I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

  Henry Rollins

  Years, Vacuums, Wonder

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• As you make your way along life's tumultuous highways, it's important to note that you should always carry a map, have plenty of fuel in the tank, and take frequent rest stops.

  Octavia Spencer

  Important, Tanks, Fuel

  "Oprah Writes Letter To Her Teenage Self. What Would You Say?", www.huffingtonpost.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

  Charles Kuralt

  Inspirational, Funny, Country

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

  A. E. Housman

  Land, Shining, Nostalgia

  A Shropshire Lad no. 40, l. 5 (1896)

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• The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

  Karen White

  Lanes, After The Rain, Knows

  Karen White (2012). “After the Rain”, p.10, Penguin

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• A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

  Frank A. Clark

  War, Men, Doe

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• Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

  Bill Lipinski

  Bridges, Long, Gaps

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• If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

  Stanley Crouch

  Intellectual, Intelligence, Subway

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• By failing to keep their end of the bargain, the Bush administration would allow New Jersey projects to deteriorate and make New Jersey highways and bridges less safe.

  Bob Menendez

  Bridges, Aggravation, Safe

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• I remember coming to this college in the 1960s as a new legislator when a road divided the campus - and it was not fully paved at that - and no wall defined the campus from the highway.

  Michael N. Castle

  Wall, College, Remember

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• I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers.

  Max Beckmann

  Spring, Flower, People

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• We were also able to do a great deal of work to improve highways, airports and airways, waterways, and railways, all of which are important and have provided a better quality of life and economic development opportunities for my constituents.

  Nick Lampson

  Opportunity, Airports, Important

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• We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

  Bill McCartney

  Healing, Unity

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• I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

  Burl Ives

  Easter, Walking Away, Clothes

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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