Winding Road Quotes:

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

- Paul McCartney

source: Song: The Long And Winding Road

topic: Winding Road

Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking!

- Henry Hazlitt

topic: Thinking, Blue, Sky, Winding Road, Clear Blue Sky

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

- Edward Abbey

source: Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.12, University of Arizona Press

topic: Nature, Journey, Clouds, Lonesome, Leading Causes

For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving

- Don Henley

source: Song: My Thanksgiving

topic: Joy, Moments, Hours, Winding Road

Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.

- Alice McCall

source: Alice McCall (2009). “Wellness Wisdom”, p.18, Alice McCall

topic: Healing, Long, Lines, Winding Road

The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.

- Joseph Campbell

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Journeys And Paths, Inspirational Adventure

Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

source: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1124, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Mountain, Doe, Lasts, Winding Road

I like to think that Einstein would look at string theory’s journey and smile, enjoying the theory’s remarkable geometrical features while feeling kinship with fellow travelers on the long and winding road toward unification.

- Brian Greene

topic: Journey, Thinking, Long, String Theory, Winding Road

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! ... I begin to feel, think, and be myself again. Instead of an awkward silence, broken by attempts at wit or dull common-places, mine is that undisturbed silence of the heart which alone is perfect eloquence.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1871). “Table Talk: Essays on Men and Manners”, p.250

topic: Heart, Thinking, Blue, Winding Road, Clear Blue Sky

My biggest complaint about drivers out in the country has tended to be that they're not in a great hurry to get where they're going. This is particularly true of old men wearing hats. If you get behind an old guy wearing a hat on a winding road, you might as well just phone ahead on your cell and tell your friends you're going to be late.

- Linwood Barclay

topic: Country, Men, Phones, Winding Road

O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you

- Rumi

topic: Heart, Eye, Choices, Winding Road

The thing that will never go away is that connection you make with a band or a song where you're moved by the fact that it's real people making music. You make that human connection with a song like 'Let It Be' or 'Long and Winding Road' or a song like 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or 'Roxanne,' any of those songs. They sound like people making music.

- Dave Grohl

topic: Song, Real, Long, Bohemian Rhapsody, Winding Road

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like streamlets or shallow ocean water

- Raquel Cepeda

source: Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.179, Simon and Schuster

topic: Wall, Ocean, Past, Ocean Water, Winding Road

Tatiana had imagined her Alexander since she was a child, before she believed that someone like him was even possible. When she was a little girl, she dreamed of a fine world in which a good man walked its winding roads, perhaps somewhere in his wandering soul searching for her.

- Paullina Simons

topic: Girl, Children, Men, Winding Road