Top 625 Road Quotes

I think about me and my dad taking a road trip from Phoenix to Nashville when I was 19. He’s no longer here with me, but I still drive that same 1994 Chevy truck. I never have bought a new car.

It’s hard to think about 20 to 30 years down the road. Most people want to use the money now – it’s tough.

I have kids and I want to have a long life and there are certain things that are conducive to that and certain things that aren’t. I’ve opted for the road of happiness and long life.

People don’t understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

I’m on the road constantly. I’m a nomad. I don’t really have a home right now. I don’t identify with one place in particular.

It’s kind of hard when you’re on the road all the time, from one show to the next, from one hotel room to the next hotel room, it’s kind of hard to think about everything.

Every time you go in, it’s like starting over. You don’t know how you did the other records. You’re learning all over. It’s some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

You sign for a sequel for everything these days, just in case, options. In the past, you avoided them like the plague because it meant somewhere down the road you couldn’t take a job because you had to do a sequel. Now it’s a feature of pretty much any feature you do.

Our covering ministry is Challenge for Christ ministries, and Travel the Road was solely our mission arm, designed to expose people to what missions are, then connect them with agencies that send people out.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn’t read the one until after I’d written the other.

Even if people that I was in love with – even if Bobby Fulton inherited a billion dollars and opened All Elite Wrestling, I was never going to be the manager of The Revival on a weekly television basis ever because that would require me being on the road on a weekly basis.

I don’t think you’ll understand the true repercussions of what the 500 does for you until years down the road.

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.

Resilience isn’t a single skill. It’s a variety of skills and coping mechanisms. To bounce back from bumps in the road as well as failures, you should focus on emphasizing the positive.

The greatest luxury is not driving. I didn’t own a car until I was 30, and that was a Rolls-Royce, so it was cheaper to insure a chauffeur. I never want to drive again. My mind is always on other things. I hate parking, and I’m very short-tempered and would get road rage, I’m sure.

We can’t go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, ‘Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,’ unless we can demonstrate that it is in America’s interest. I happen to think it is.

For the first time ever I was taking the family on the road. We stayed with my in-laws, which on life’s list of experiences ranks right below sitting in a tub full of scissors.

Good things do not come easy. The road is lined with pitfalls.

There was one year that I was on the road.

Kids will remind you that, even though you’ve gone down a road 100 times, it’s brand new for them – and that’s healthy.

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

I got more bands and went on the road and turn down more movies than you would believe.

There’s a lot of down time on the road. That part of it I really don’t enjoy. There’s nothing to do.

I know that I’m not perfect. While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it’s an issue that we have to control, that it’s part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

I can’t immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

I go out on the road for much longer than I probably should and lose more of myself than I should.

When I was old enough to walk home alone from school, I loved seeing our house from a distance. It sat on the corner of South Muirfield Road and West 4th Street and had this proud, majestic look. But I rarely went through the front door. The back was more dramatic.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

I’m half-white and half-black. No-one will ever say I’m white, but all the road men think because I’m mixed race that I can’t be bad because I’m light skin. It’s crazy.

We must do a better job of educating all drivers to be safer on the road.

It almost hurts me to walk down a road and have people grab my hand and ask for my autograph and not sit and talk. When I’m finished I’m not going to be on the front page, but I’m going to be just as happy without the publicity.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Unity is the most important thing on the road to stamping out terror. You need global rules of law and order, and they have to be enforced. Start with that principle.

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.

While they’re building a solid foundation that will support whatever is coming down the road, Todd and I are itching to see further, to push the envelope.

Somewhere in talking and rehearsing, there is a magical moment where actors catch a current, they’re on the right road. If they really catch it, then whatever they do from then on is correct and it all comes out of them from that point on.

I remember going to Bob Preston’s dressing room because I was losing a laugh – as you do in a long run. He said, ‘Give me the script. That’s where you’re going off the road.’ That’s comedy. It’s never the line itself; it’s in the foundation.

An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.

They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moore hadn’t either. I think they never stopped trying to put me in the same category. That was the road they went down with me.

It goes without saying, winning against a good team in a hostile crowd on the road, it’s just an absolutely huge win.

The royal road to a man’s heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

It’s important to me that my music stands out. ‘Taki Taki’ doesn’t sound like anything else out there, and it’s hard to do that when you are on the road all the time, but it’s really important to me that how people feel about my work. It was the same with ‘Magenta Riddim.’

The world is full of musicians who can play great, and you wouldn’t cross the road to see them. It’s people who have this indefinable attitude that are the good ones.

There’s only a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, but there’s no road leading from the ridiculous to the sublime.

But, what did happen is I went to Woodstock as a member of the audience. I did not show up there with a road manager and a couple of guitars. I showed up with a change of clothes and a toothbrush.

In December 2004, I travelled on the road from Uzbekistan across the Oxus River on which the first Soviet convoys had rolled into Afghanistan 25 years before.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn’t always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

And I can’t wait to see where the road leads from here.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.