„The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.“

„Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.“

—  Mason Cooley American academic 1927 - 2002

„The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.“

—  Barbara Hall Canadian politician 1946

„It’s all right,” the boy murmured as he felt her trembling. “My grandmother always told me ‘Never try to turn back on a new road—you don’t know what adventures await you.“

—  Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964

„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 English singer-songwriter and composer 1942

„If people should say of me that I tried always to go straight there is perhaps no credit to me in that. It may have been mere indolence. The straight road always seemed to me the easiest.“

—  Henry Campbell-Bannerman Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1836 - 1908

„The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.“

—  Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement 1929 - 1968

„I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.“

—  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

„There are some places … that the road doesn't go in a circle. There are some places where the road keeps going.“

—  Gary Ross American film director 1956

„So goodbye yellow brick road,
Where the dogs of society howl.
You can't plant me in your penthouse,
I'm going back to my plough.“

—  Elton John English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist 1947

„But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.“

—  Piers Anthony English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres 1934

„Dying is a wild night and a new road.“

—  Emily Dickinson American poet 1830 - 1886

„I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way.“

—  Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989

„We need not go back through the cavern of the monsters," she said. "There is a way to reach the unseen road from here.“

—  Henry Kuttner American author 1915 - 1958

„The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await."… "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads.“

—  Lisa Kleypas American writer 1964

„The road to success is always under construction“

—  Lily Tomlin American actress, comedian, writer, and producer 1939

„Every road i traveled led back to you“

—  Paulo Coelho, libro Sulla sponda del fiume Piedra mi sono seduta e ho pianto

„What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?“

—  Jack Kerouac American writer 1922 - 1969

„I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go“

—  Joseph Conrad, libro Cuore di tenebra

„You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve and you'll speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.“

—  Ellen DeGeneres American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress 1958