Rocky Road Quotes:

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

- Bob Marley

topic: Inspirational, Song, Travel, Rocky Road

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

- John Kendrick Bangs

source: John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

topic: Attitude, Men, Grit, Rocky Road, Heavy Loads

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

- Wendy Mass

source: Wendy Mass (2008). “Every Soul a Star”, p.8, Hachette UK

topic: Average, Fudge, Sprinkles, Rocky Road

Eighteen luscuios scrumpitous flavors, Chocolate,Lime and Cherry Coffee,Pumpkin, Fudge-Banana, Caramel Cream and boysenberry. Rocky Road and Toasted Almond, Butterscotch,Vanilla Dip, Butter Brinkle, Apple Ripple,Coconut,and Mocha Chip, Brandy Peach and Lemon Custard. Each scoop lovely.smooth and round. Tallest cream cone in town lying there on the ground.

- Shel Silverstein

topic: Lying, Coffee, Apples, Butterscotch, Caramel

In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But in an age of anxiety, an age of herd morality and personal isolation, courage is a sine qua non. In periods when the mores of the society were more consistent guides, the individual was more firmly cushioned in his crises of development; but in times of transition like ours, the individual is thrown on his own at an earlier age and for a longer period.

- Rollo May

source: "Man's Search for Himself" by Rollo May, (p.191), 1953.

topic: Courage, Maturity, Simple, Rocky Road, Times Of Transition

Hey mister, where you goin' in such a hurry? Don't you think it's time you realize There's a whole lot more to life than work and worry All the sweetest things in life are free And they're right before your eyes? You've got to stop and smell the roses You've got to count your many blessings every day You're gonna find your way to heaven is a rough and rocky road If you don't stop and smell the roses along the way

- Mac Davis

topic: Eye, Blessing, Thinking, Many Blessings, Rocky Road

If Mitt Romney is vanilla, Chris Christie is three hefty scoops of Rocky Road topped with whipped cream, Red Bull, and gravel.

- Ron Fournier

topic: Three, Bulls, Red, Christie, Red Bull

That was always the dream, wasn't it? 'I wish I'd known then what I know now'? But when you got older you found out that you NOW wasn't YOU then. You then was a twerp. You then was what you had to be to start out on the rocky road of becoming you now, and one of the rocky patches on that road was being a twerp.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2002). “Night watch”, Doubleday UK

topic: Dream, Wish, Becoming, Rocky Road, Becoming You

In a new interview, Herman Cain said that if Rick Perry were an ice cream flavor, he'd be 'Rocky Road.' I don't know, Perry's not really any flavor of ice cream. He's just the brain freeze part.

- Jimmy Fallon

topic: Ice Cream, Brain, Cain, Rocky Road