Road Runs North

Famous quotes containing the words road, runs and/or north:

    There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony; that is, of course, provided that the aspirant declines the slow course of honest work.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    Man ... always remains attached to the past: however far and fast he runs, the chain runs with him.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    —Here, the flag snaps in the glare and silence
    Of the unbroken ice. I stand here,
    The dogs bark, my beard is black, and I stare
    At the North Pole. . .
    And now what? Why, go back.

    Turn as I please, my step is to the south.
    Randall Jarrell (1914–1965)