Potholes Quotes

• I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.

  Fidel Castro

  Airports, Dinner, Way

  "Giuliani? He Wouldn't Get Castro's Vote". Interview with Lizette Alvarez, www.nytimes.com. October 26, 1995.

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• In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another traffic thing.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Moon, Traffic

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• Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

  Drew Barrymore

  Fall, Mean, Motivational Speakers

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• Laughter is to life what shock absorbers are to automobiles. It won't take the potholes out of the road, but it sure makes the ride smoother

  Barbara Johnson

  Inspirational, Positive, Laughter

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

  Nora Roberts

  Bumps, World, Sides

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• Life's a car ride...Sometimes it's cruise control down smooth highways. Other times it's potholes on rural roads.

  Carolyn Mackler

  Life, Car, Sometimes

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• Our failures can leave behind pavement or potholes. Our ability to receive grace determines which it will be.

  Bob Goff

  Grace, Pavement, Ability

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Jun 21, 2013

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• Nostalgia: A device that removes the ruts and potholes from memory lane.

  Doug Larson

  Memories, Ruts, Nostalgia

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• True friendship is like the asphalt of life. It fills in the potholes and makes the journey smooth.

  Richard G. Scott

  True Friend, Journey, Smooth

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• While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.

  Eugene J. Martin

  Journey, Road Sign

  "Cellar Door", Vol. 12(2), p. 50, Spring 1985.

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• When you leave home to follow your dreams, your road will probably be riddled with potholes, not always paved in happy Technicolor bricks. You'll probably be kicked to the ground 150 million times and told you're nuts by friends and strangers alike. As you progress you may feel lonely or terrified for your physical and emotional safety. You may overestimate your own capabilities or fail to live up to them, and you'll surely fall flat on your face once in a while.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Dream, Lonely, Fall

  Kelly Cutrone, Meredith Bryan (2010). “If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• Not that the path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." -Zoey

  P. C. Cast

  Unique, Path, Smooth

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• The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.

  Maria Shriver

  Life, Laughter, Needs

  Maria Shriver (2003). “Ten Things I Wish I'd Known - Before I Went Out Into the Real World”, p.92, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I smoke to fill the potholes in my soul

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Humor, Soul

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• Take those road hazards- the potholes, ruts, detours, and all the rest- as evidence that you were on the right route. It's when you find yourself on that big, broad, easy road that you ought to worry.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Worry, Finding Yourself, Hazards

  Joni Eareckson Tada (2011). “Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos”, p.40, Multnomah

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• God bless the potholes on Memory Lane.

  Randy Newman

  Memories, God Bless, Lanes

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• The national media will talk about national problems because it's something that everyone in all 50 states can understand, but the reality is these are minor factors. These are local races. ... The issues tend to be less ideological than for Senate races or races for president. ... It's about potholes and streetlights.

  Larry Sabato

  Reality, Race, Media

  "Stakes Are High in N.J., Va. Governor Races". www.foxnews.com. October 23, 2005.

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• So, even in the midst of craziness and exhaustion and life-changing chaos, I was filled with peace and the sweet knowledge that I was walking the path my Goddess wanted me on. Not that that path was smooth and pothole free. But still, it was my path, and like me, it was bound to be unique." Untamed

  P. C. Cast

  Sweet, Life Changing, Unique

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• I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.

  Melissa Brown

  Book, Perfect, Bumpy Roads

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• If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up being a situation common in the Third World: some sections of highways in wealthy areas are beautifully maintained and other parts are just dirt-strewn potholes.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  America, Different, World

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• Government! Government! What do I get for all I give, I'd like to know! Potholes and bombs!

  Cecil Dawkins

  Government, Giving, Bombs

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• Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.

  Rachel Nichols

  Country, People, Interesting

  "Comic-Con 2011 Exclusive: Rachel Nichols Talks CONAN THE BARBARIAN, Comic-Con, Girl Fights, and the other Rachel Nichols". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 23, 2011.

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• Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.

  Carolyn Jones

  Funny, Basketball, Coffee

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• Government ... can't be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

  Helen Prejean

  Government, Citizens, Death Penalty

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