Footpaths Quotes

• Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

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  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Heart   Opportunity   Desire  

  Frances Parkinson Keyes (1972). “All flags flying: reminiscences of Frances Parkinson Keyes”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• Why don't you lay the footpaths where the students want to walk?

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  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Want   Students   Walks  

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• Conservation is key to preserving many of the worlds natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.

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  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Keys   World   Helping  

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• Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

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  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sorry   Men   Giving  

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.16, A&C Black

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• I was happy enough; I knew that during the night the whole city might go up in flames and all its people be killed, but the ravines, houses, and footpaths would wake in the morning calm and unchanged.

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  Cesare Pavese

  Morning   Night   Flames  

  Cesare Pavese (1968). “Selected Works: Translated from the Italian and with an Introd. by R. W. Flint”

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• Satisfied is a word I use only in reference to my country, and I'll never be satisfied for my country. For this reasons I go on taking difficult paths, and between a paved road and a footpath that goes up the mountain, I choose the footpath. To the great irritation of my bodyguards.

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  Indira Gandhi

  Country   Irritation   Mountain  

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• The footpath down to the well is healed.

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  Robert Frost

  Time   Healing   Footpaths  

  Robert Frost (2012). “A Boy's Will and North of Boston”, p.2, Courier Corporation

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• Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.

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  Kohta Hirano

  People   Humanity   Gains  

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• What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality and deviate into these footpaths that lead beneath brambles and thick tree trunks into the heart of the forest where live those wild beasts, our fellow men? That is true: to escape is the greatest of pleasures; street haunting in winter the greatest of adventures.

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  Virginia Woolf

  Heart   Adventure   Winter  

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2919, Delphi Classics

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• To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe. You know then what you had always been told -- that the world once lived and grew without adding machines and newsprint and brick-walled streets and the tyranny of clocks.

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  Beryl Markham

  Nature   Animal   Mountain  

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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