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Inspirational Bicycle Quotable Quotes
Riding a bicycle is one of the greatest metaphors for living life, thus these wonderful quotable bicycle quotes from some historically inspirational people. I'm quite proud of this collection of bike quotes, whIch I've been collecting for over a decade, which I think is the most comprehensive collection of cycle quotes on the web.
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I thought of that while riding my bicycle. ~ Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity |
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~ Albert Einstein
I feel that I am entitled to my share of lightheartedness and there is nothing wrong with enjoying one's self simply, like a boy. ~ Leo Tolstoy In response to criticism for learning to ride a bicycle at age 67
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard
If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Prof. Carl Sagan
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle. ~ Elizabeth West
It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond.
Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization. ~ George Bernard Shaw
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Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~ Charles M. Schulz |
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It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway
More about Scott's bicycle ride around the world. |
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Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells
Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow. ~ H.G. Wells The Wheels of Chance
As a kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I got the bike I must have been the happiest boy in Liverpool, maybe the world. I lived for that bike. Most kids left their bike in the backyard at night. Not me. I insisted on taking mine indoors and the first night I even kept it in my bed. ~ John Lennon
Why not create an adventure and a quotable moment of your own? ~ Scott |
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The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ~ Ann Strong Minneapolis Tribune, 1895
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel...the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood. ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896
The bicycle has done more for the emancipation of women than anything else in the world. ~ Susan B. Anthony 1896
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong
Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does. ~ Lance Armstrong after his third Tour de France victory
It's not about the bike ~ Lance Armstrong
Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain -- at least in a poor country like Russia -- and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. ~ Leon Trotsky
Great quotes for the Women's Suffrage and Feminist Movements.
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Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle. ~ Helen Keller deaf and blind political activist |
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Next to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on my tandem bicycle. It is splendid to feel the wind blowing in my face and the springy motion of my iron steed. The rapid rush through the air gives me a delicious sense of strength and buoyancy, and the exercise makes my pulse dance and my heart sing. ~ Helen Keller deaf and blind political activist
The bicycle will accomplish more for women’s sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged. ~ Author unknown from Demerarest’s Family Magazine, 1895
I began to feel that myself plus the bicycle equaled myself plus the world, upon whose spinning wheel we must all learn to ride, or fall into the sluiceways of oblivion and despair. That which made me succeed with the bicycle was precisely what had gained me a measure of success in life -- it was the hardihood of spirit that led me to begin, the persistence of will that held me to my task, and the patience that was willing to begin again when the last stroke had failed. And so I found high moral uses in the bicycle and can commend it as a teacher without pulpit or creed. She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life. ~ Frances E. Willard How I Learned To Ride The Bicycle. 1895
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Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. ~ Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle. 1884 Read Twain's short story Taming the Bicycle. |
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The steps of one's progress are distinctly marked. At the end of each lesson he knows he has acquired something, and he also knows what that something is, and likewise that it will stay with him. It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No -- and I see now, plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business. But I also see, by what I have learned of bicycling, that the right and only sure way to learn German is by the bicycling method. That is to say, take a grip on one villainy of it at a time, and learn it -- not ease up and shirk to the next, leaving that one half learned. ~ Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle. 1884.
Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind -- your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work. ~ Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle. 1884.
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century. ~ Anonymous
Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. ~ Bill Nye the Science Guy
Government must help to eliminate cars so that bicycles can help to eliminate government. ~ Advocacy slogan in Holland
It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels. ~ Heinz Stucke Bicycle touring for 49 years and still going
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~ Queen Bicycle Race, Fat Bottomed Girls |
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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. ~ Emo Philips
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~ Christopher Morley American author and editor 1890-1957
A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~ Bill Emerson On Bicycling, Saturday Evening Post, 1967
Exhibit B: Another photograph. What's missing from this picture? It's just me WITHOUT MY BIKE! ~ Pee Wee Herman Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~ James E. Starrs
The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. ~ Ann Strong
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Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike. ~ John F. Kennedy 35th President of the United States |
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You never have the wind with you -- either it is against you or you're having a good day. ~ Daniel Behrman The Man Who Loved Bicycles
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ~ Grant PetersenOn my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India. ~ Dervla Murphy Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
And a bicycle ride around the world begins with a single pedal stroke. ~ Scott Stoll
The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. ~ William Saroyan Nobel prize winner
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast. ~ Paul Scott Mowrer
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history. ~ P.J. O'Rourke
The bicycle, the bicycle, surely should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~ Christopher Morely Nobel prize winner
Bicycles are the indicator species of a community, like shellfish in a bay.~ P. Martin Scott
Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity. ~ Lord Charles Beresford
If I can bicycle, I bicycle. ~ David Attenborough
More of my favorite adventure and inspiration quotes here!
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Quest for happiness -- Around the world on a bicycle
New widescreen HD version with never-seen-before footage. A montage of photos and videos from Scott's 4 year, 26,000 mile bicycle tour around the world. Previously a Youtube Feature Video and specially requested for the Boston Bicycle Film Festival.
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