Bicycle Quotes

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  Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Albert Einstein's letter to his son Eduard (February 5, 1930), as quoted in Walter Isaacson "Einstein: His Life and Universe" (p. 367), 2007.

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• I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like

  Freddie Mercury

  Cycling, Riding, Want

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• What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Memorable, Technology

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.86, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There's something wrong with a society that drives a car to work out in a gym.

  Bill Nye

  Future, Cycling, Work Out

  "Cancer: 101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic". Book by Anne Wordsworth, Guy Dauncey, and Liz Armstrong, 2007.

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  When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Death, Forgiveness

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• Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

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• Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.

  Eddy Merckx

  Cycling, Long, Riding

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• It never gets easier; you just go faster.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Greg LeMond, Mark Hom (2014). “The Science of Fitness: Power, Performance, and Endurance”, p.122, Academic Press

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dream, Kids

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• Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

  Mark Twain

  Regret, Healing, Riding Your Bike

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

  H. G. Wells

  Funny, Cycling, Race

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• Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.

  John F. Kennedy

  Simple, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

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• The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.

  William Saroyan

  Cycling, Bikers, Invention

  William Saroyan (2002). “Where the Bones Go”, Pr at California st

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• 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.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Inspirational, Dark, Cycling

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• I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle, it's not going to be satisfying.

  Greg LeMond

  Inspirational, Struggle, Cycling

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• Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

  Claude Pepper

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Wine, Cycling, Race

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Music, Country, Nature

  Paul Scott Mowrer (1945). “The House of Europe”

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• Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

  Bob Weir

  Girl, Cycling, Guitar

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• I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• I want to ride my bicycle bicycle bicycle; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride my bike; I want to ride my bicycle; I want to ride it where I like...; I don't believe in Peter Pan, Frankenstein or Superman; All I wanna do is bicycle, bicycle, bicycle...

  Freddie Mercury

  Believe, Cycling, Want

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• The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions: It does not pretend to free us from our normal environment.

  J. B. Jackson

  Cycling, Greek, Violence

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• I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after screaming down an Alpine descent on a bicycle at 75 miles per hour.

  Lance Armstrong

  Stars, Texas, Years

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.4, Random House

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• Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.

  Billy Connolly

  Marriage, Funny Love, Wedding

  Twitter post from Sep 12, 2011

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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 the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Country, Cycling

  "By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway". Book edited by William White, 1967.

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