Detour Quotes
A detour rarely feels planned, yet these quotes show how often it becomes the more memorable route. From a grandmother's kitchen stop to a decades-long career pivot, the voices collected here treat the detour not as a mistake but as a shift worth noticing. Some describe detours forced by circumstance, others chosen almost by accident, and together they suggest that the straight path is not always the one that teaches the most.
Every detour quote here treats the unplanned turn as part of the story rather than an interruption of it. Readers exploring Change quotes will find a similar thread: the idea that direction shifts on its own timeline.
My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick...
By the end of the millennium, despite the continuing excitement of the field, almost thirty years of a detour from chemistry to medical imaging began to pall, and I changed my focus to a field of chemical research, just in...
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I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.
Growing up, I wanted to write films and make films. Even as I took this detour and stayed in the music world, I still think in terms of 'What is in this room? What is the shot? Who are the...
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The 'Motown' detour for me was almost like it wasn't work. It was more fun than work, and that's all it takes for me to not be very responsible to other things I should have been paying attention to.
On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
If my career detour from special education to singing has done one thing, it has afforded me the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others.
