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Cool Bicycle Quotes
“The
journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he
got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some
point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving
and does not get off he will fall off.”
~ William
G. Golding
(English Novelist and Poet. Nobel Prize in Literature, 1983.)
Whenever
I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.
~ H.G. Wells
I thought
of that while riding my bicycle. ~
Albert Einstein on the theory
of relativity
Nothing
compares to the simple pleasure of riding a bike. ~
John
F. Kennedy
As a
kid I had a dream - I wanted to own my own bicycle. When I
got he 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
"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
Chasing
records doesn't keep me on my bike. Happiness does.~
Lance Armstrong after his third Tour de France
victory
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
Next
to a leisurely walk I enjoy a spin on m y 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
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
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
More Cool
Adventure Quotes
"The real
voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes
but in having new eyes." ~
Marcel Proust
Show me
a hero and I will write you a tragedy. ~
F. Scott Fitzgerald
And
Shakespeare says, "Yes, I quite agree. It was very painful
[King Lear's humiliation], and I could have arranged for him
to take a sedative at the end of Act I, but then, ma'am, there
would have been no play." ~
Malcom Muggeridge
Give
a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion,
and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
~ Anonymous
My philosophy,
in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with
his own happiness as the moral purpose to his life, with productive
achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only
absolute. ~
Ayn
Rand
It is
a common saying that a man needs only six feet of earth. But
six feet is what a corpse needs, not a man.... Man needs not
six feet of earth, not a farm, but the whole globe, all of
nature, where unhindered he can display all the capacities
and peculiarities of his free spirit .
~
Anton Chekhov
"Gooseberries" 1898
A hero
ventures forth from the world of common day into a region
of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered
and a decisive victory won: the hero comes back from this
mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his
fellow man." ~
Joseph
Campbell,
"The Hero with a Thousand Faces"
One must
be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality,
as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this
relaxation, this aimless life.
~
Henry David Thoreau,
US essayist, poet, and naturalist
The greatest
successes have always been built by spectacular and often
repeated failure. ~
Wade Zawalski
I want to know if you can live with failure... and still stand
on the edge of the lake and shout to the edge of the silver
of the full moon, "Yes!" ~
Oriah
Mountain Dreamer,
"The Invitation"
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