Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
Source: Aeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 938 (tr. Robert Fagles); Turnus asking Aeneas for mercy.
Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“The thornbush is old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”
Franz Kafka book The Blue Octavo Notebooks
The Blue Octavo Notebooks (1954)
Rahul Gandhi (1970) Indian politician
Wall Street Journal, WSJ http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/RahulGandhiSpeech.pdf
“The road up and the road down is one and the same.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
Fragment 60
Variant translations:
The road up and the road down are one and the same.
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
Numbered fragments
Arlo Guthrie (1947) American folk singer
Spoken during some performances of the Motorcycle song, on how he wrote the song. Found on recordings on "Arlo, Live in Sydney, and the Significance of the Pickle".
Joni Mitchell (1943) Canadian musician
"Woodstock"
Songs
Context: I came upon a child of god,
He was walking along the road
And I asked him, where are you going
And this he told me:
"I’m going on down to Yasgur’s farm
I’m going to join in a rock ’n’ roll band
I’m going to camp out on the land,
I’m going to try an’ get my soul free.
“A novel is a mirror walking down a road”
Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient
Source: The English Patient
“The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.”
Sarah Orne Jewett book The Country of the Pointed Firs
Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 19