Trails Quotes - Page 4

• I loved her for so long. Our past trails behind us like a comet's tail, the future stretched out before us like the universe. Things happen. People get lost and love breaks.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Past, Long, People

  Jonathan Tropper (2010). “This Is Where I Leave You”, p.307, Hachette UK

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• I could never resist the call of the trail.

  Buffalo Bill

  Walking

  Buffalo Bill, W. F. Cody (2012). “Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Autobiography”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

  Bill Bryson

  Nice, Sleep, Europe

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• In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying that in history because I knew I wasn't going to be able to spit back the names and the dates and all that stuff on a test.

  Chuck Close

  Names, Feet, Long

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• The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

  Alan Greenspan

  Happiness, Careers, Leaving

  "Remarks by Chairman Alan Greenspan". Alan Greenspan's commencement address at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, www.federalreserve.gov. June 10, 1999.

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• The progress of science, like an ancient desert trail, is strewn with the bleached skeletons of discarded theories, doctrines, and axioms which seemed to possess eternal life.

  Arthur Koestler

  Skeletons, Progress, Desert

  "Kaleidoscope: Essays from "Drinkers of Infinity" and the "Heel of Achilles" and Later Pieces and Stories".

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• A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.

  Talib Kweli

  Thinking, People, Leader

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• I would like to see more airplay for all artists, no matter what age. I think there's a lot of money being spent toward the young guys, but a lot of the older guys are the ones who blazed the trail for those young guys.

  Willie Nelson

  Artist, Thinking, Guy

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• You could go crazy thinking of how unprivate our lives really are - the omnipresent security cameras, the tracking data on our very smart phones, the porous state of our Internet selves, the trail of electronic crumbs we leave every day.

  Susan Orlean

  Crazy, Smart, Thinking

  "Stay Out of My Dropbox" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. May 18, 2011.

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• When I was a boy, I would ask about my family history, about my bloodlines. We really didn't know that much. We had a little Indian in us from the Oklahoma Trail of Tears.

  Brad Pitt

  Boys, Oklahoma, Tears

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• In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

  Major Taylor

  Pioneers, Walking, My Own

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• Every president thinks that all information that comes to the White House is their private preserve after they all promise an open administration on the campaign trail, but some are more secretive than others. Some want to lock down everything.

  Helen Thomas

  Thinking, White, House

  Phone interview on "The Majority Report" with Sam Seder, April 2, 2004.

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• The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

  Louis L'Amour

  Missing, Slow Down, Ends

  Louis L'Amour (2003). “Ride the Dark Trail”, p.53, Bantam

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• Then Circled by the golden light of God's Presence and His promise, Paul and Sierra walked side by side along the trail that lead tward the campus and on tward their Future

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Light, Promise, Golden

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• We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country that by then, in retrospect, was no more to us than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires, and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Country, Dog, Book

  Vladimir Nabokov (2011). “The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated”, p.253, Vintage

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• Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Stars, Lying, Flames

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• In mind's special processes, a ten-mile run takes far longer than the 60 minutes reported by a grandfather clock. Such time, in fact, hardly exists at all in the real world; it is all out on the trail somewhere, and you only go back to it when you are out there.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Running, Real, Mind

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• I find that anything culturally significant that happened before '93 I associate with the decade before it. In fact, Oregon Trail is one of a handful of signposts that middle school existed at all.

  Sloane Crosley

  School, Oregon, Facts

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.51, Portobello Books

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• Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

  Jodi Picoult

  Stars, Fire, Rocks

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Passion, Fate

  Winston Churchill, David Cannadine (1989). “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There's nothin like a trail of ßlooÐ to finÐ your way ßack home

  Nikki Sixx

  Home, Way, Fins

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• A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh, that' s love by a different name.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Baby, Cheer, Children

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.320, Faber & Faber

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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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• Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

  Matsuo Basho

  Jewels, Sky, Mountain

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• 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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