tracks quotes

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

- Dwight D(avid) Eisenhower
  In Time, 6 Oct.

We have a habit in writing articles published in scientific journals to make the work as finished as possible, to cover up all the tracks, to not worryabout the blind alleys or describe how you had the wrong idea first, and so on. So there isn't any place to publish, in a dignified manner, what you actually did in order to do the work.

- Richard P(hillips) Feynman
  Nobel lecture.

The songs I had are withered Or vanished clean. Yet there are bright tracks Where I have been.

- Ivor Gurney
  'The Songs I Had'.