The Warrior's Path Quotes

“Since I was a small boy, I had watched that forest for enemies or for game, and I knew its every mood and shading, how the sunlight fell through the leaves and where the shadows gathered. It held no mysteries for me but much of memory. I had played there as a child with Yance, Jubal, and Brian, later with Noelle. We had climbed its trees, picked berries there, and played hide-and-seek under its branches.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“There was much talk of sermons, also, and I gathered from this, as well as what Yance had told me, that sermons had much to do with shaping of thinking. There were a stiff-necked, proud folk, not easily persuaded to any course not dictated by conscience, yet conscience could be a poor guide if accompanied by lack of knowledge.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“We who walk the woodland paths know that although all men look, not many see.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“A year? What is a year? All time is relative. One day may be a lifetime, a year can be forever. It is not the number of days but what goes into those days.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“And at night,” I added, “a man is too tired. I fall asleep over my books, but we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think. Shaping a country is not all done with the hands but with the mind as well.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“The night before there had been much talk while I was at table, and taking no part in it, I listened nonetheless, for a trail is followed not only upon the earth but in the minds of those one pursues or the minds of those whose thinking is similar.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“He put his hand upon my shoulder and told me that in the world were two kinds of people, those who wish and those who will, and the world and its good will always belong to those who will.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“There is no safety anywhere,' he said quietly, 'but you do not seem a man who is used to safety. Ride well.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path

“see perhaps four and a half miles, and the lookout”
― Louis L'Amour, The Warrior's Path