quotations about walking
Flies travel like they're named. Humans should be called Walks.
JAROD KINTZ
Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You
Increased biking and walking is good for our collective hearts and lungs; it also reduces congestion and helps boost the economy.
CHARLES SCHUMER
"How Deadly Atlantic Avenue Is About to Get Safer", The Bridge, April 20, 2017
I have two doctors, my left leg and my right.
G. M. TREVELYAN
Clio, a Muse: And Other Essays Literary and Pedestrian
When I rest my feet my mind also ceases to function.
J. G. HAMANN
attributed, An Inside Passage
Walking's a great way to create. The ideas seem to fall from the sky sometimes, and the fresh air is great too.
KENNETH G. EADE
HOA Wire
If I couldn't walk fast and far, I should just explode and perish.
CHARLES DICKENS
letter to John Forster, September 29, 1854
A lone walker is both present and detached, more than an audience but less than a participant. Walking assuages or legitimizes this alienation.
REBECCA SOLNIT
Wanderlust: A History of Walking
These days, walking down the street may be more dangerous than driving. The number of pedestrian fatalities has skyrocketed and there may be one small thing to blame: Your cell phone. More and more people are stepping into traffic with their heads buried in their smart phones.
JENNY DAY
"Walking is becoming more dangerous than driving", SanDiego6, March 30, 2017
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
JACQUELINE SCHIFF
attributed, Quote Unquote
I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in mixing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.
JOHN CLARE
attributed, John Clare and the Bounds of Circumstance
Walking is like the ongoing picking up and straightening up you do in your house every single day. It's not exciting. There's no great benefit at the end. But it must be done.
TAMMY DAVIS
"Life is a Balancing Act", Columbia Star, April 21, 2017
Walking is the very best exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 19, 1785
The general aim of walking is to move the mass of a jointed segmented body horizontally from one place to another.
ARTHUR E. CHAPMAN
Biomechanical Analysis of Fundamental Human Movements
If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.
RAYMOND INMON
attributed, Quote Unquote
Walking leads to discovery, discovery leads to knowledge, and knowledge, as we all know, makes us a better person.
BISHWANATH GHOSH
"The World on Foot", The Hindu, February 5, 2016
It seems thus possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.
MICHEL DE CERTEAU
The Practice of Everyday Life
A line is a dot that went for a walk.
PAUL KLEE
attributed, Quick Quotations
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
The House of Europe
If you are for a merry jaunt I will try for once who can foot it farthest.
JOHN DRYDEN
attributed, Forty Thousand Quotations, Prose and Poetical
To walk is to lack a place.
MICHEL DE CERTEAU
The Practice of Everyday Life