Footpaths Quotes

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

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Want, Students, Walks

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• The footpath down to the well is healed.

  Robert Frost

  Time, Healing, Wells

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

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• 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.

  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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• 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.

  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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• 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.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Keys, World, Helping

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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.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Adventure, Winter

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

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

  Kohta Hirano

  People, Humanity, Gains

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• El hombre de guardia solía cambiar de vez en cuando. Una vez, uno de estos hombres, sin darme el menor aviso, sin pedirme siquiera que abandonara la acera, me empujó y me echó a la calle. Me quedé consternado. Antes de que pudiera interrogarle sobre su comportamiento, el señor Coates, que pasaba por allí a caballo, me saludó y dijo: "Gandhi, lo he visto todo. Con mucho gusto seré su testigo ante el tribunal si procede contra ese hombre. Siento mucho que le hayan agredido tan groseramente".

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Lo Siento, Hombres, Dar

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). "Todos los hombres son hermanos: Autobiographical Reflections", p.16, A&C Black

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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.

  Indira Gandhi

  Country, Irritation, Mountain

  Entrevista con Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. 24 de diciembre de 2014.

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• Ver diez mil animales sin domesticar y sin la marca de los símbolos del comercio humano es como escalar una montaña sin conquistar por primera vez, o como encontrar un bosque sin carreteras ni senderos, ni la mancha de un hacha. Entonces sabes lo que siempre te habían dicho: que el mundo vivió y creció sin máquinas de sumar, sin papel de periódico, sin calles con paredes de ladrillo y sin la tiranía de los relojes.

  Beryl Markham

  Nature, Animal, Mountain

  Beryl Markham (1994). "El Oeste ilustrado con la noche", Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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