Bicycle Quotes - Page 9

• If I am asked to explain why I learned the bicycle I should say I did it as an act of grace, if not of actual religion.

  Frances E. Willard

  Grace, Should, Ifs

  Frances E. Willard (2017). “A Wheel within a Wheel - How I learned to Ride the Bicycle with Some Reflections by the Way”, p.32, Read Books Ltd

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• Somewhere a bicycle bell rings. Somewhere else there's a war on. Somewhere else people turn to shadows and powder in an instant and the streets turn to funnels and light the sky with their burning. Somewhere a war is over.

  Tim Winton

  War, Light, Somewhere Else

  Tim Winton (2013). “Cloudstreet: A Novel”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

  Steven Wright

  Lasts, Week

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• Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be as wellknown as Henry Ford's, for his helicopter will all but replace the horseless carriage as the new means of popular transportation. Instead of a car in every garage, there will be a helicopter.... These 'copters' will be so safe and will cost so little to produce that small models will be made for teenage youngsters. These tiny 'copters, when school lets out, will fill the sky as the bicycles of our youth filled the prewar roads.

  Harry Bruno

  Teenage, War, School

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• A boy told me if he roller-skated fast enough his loneliness couldn't catch up to him, the best reason I ever heard for trying to be a champion. What I wonder tonight pedaling hard down King William Street is if it translates to bicycles. A victory! To leave your loneliness panting behind you on some street corner while you float free into a cloud of sudden azaleas, pink petals that have never felt loneliness, no matter how slowly they fell.

  Naomi Shihab Nye

  Kings, Loneliness, Boys

  Naomi Shihab Nye (1998). “Fuel: Poems”, p.81, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

  Jacques Barzun

  Book, Perfect, Form

  "Curtains for theatre programmes? Never!" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

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• Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

  Gayle Forman

  Running, Dutch, Violent

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.25, Penguin

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• Why shouldn't it be that way for the rest of us? Why not just go with it? Just walk the dog and send the tweets and eat the scones and play with the hamsters and ride the bicycles and watch the sunsets and stream the movies and never worry about any of it? I didn't know it could be that easy. I didn't know that until just now. That sounds good to me.

  Joshua Ferris

  Life, Dog, Sunset

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• If it hurts me, it must hurt the other ones twice as much.

  Jens Voigt

  Inspirational, Hurt, Ifs

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• When you were sleeping on the sofa I put my ear to your ear and listened to the echo of your dreams. That is the ocean I want to dive in, merge with the bright fish, plankton and pirate ships. I walk up to people on the street that kind of look like you and ask them the questions I would ask you. Can we sit on a rooftop and watch stars dissolve into smoke rising from a chimney? Can I swing like Tarzan in the jungle of your breathing? I don’t wish I was in your arms, I just wish I was peddling a bicycle toward your arms.

  Jeffrey McDaniel

  Dream, Stars, Ocean

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• Here's some more stuff we're going to need." 1 pair coveralls 1 extension ladder (30 foot) 1 glass cutter 1 artist's portfolio (large) 1 water pistol 1 bottle india ink 1 portable trampoline (collapsible) 1 bicycle w/basket 4 pizza boxes Jonah whistled. "I hope you've got some crazy evil-genius strategy, 'cause–straight up–I don't get it.

  Gordon Korman

  Crazy, Artist, Feet

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• I sing your restless longing for the statue, your fear of the feelings that await you in the street. I sing the small sea siren who sings to you, riding her bicycle of corals and conches. But above all I sing a common thought that joins us in the dark and golden hours. The light that blinds our eyes is not art. Rather it is love, friendship, crossed swords.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Art, Eye, Dark

  Federico García Lorca, “Ode To Salvador Dali”

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• As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely. (Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)

  Scott Westerfeld

  Riding A Bicycle, Bears, Doe

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• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India...However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

  Dervla Murphy

  Children, Ambition, India

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• Women need men like fish need bicycles.

  Irina Dunn

  Men, Needs, Fishes

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• Every once in a while someone along the road lets us know how far behind we are. A man shouts: ‘Faster!’ He probably thinks bicycle racing is about going fast.

  Tim Krabbe

  Men, Thinking, Racing

  Tim Krabbé, Tim Krabbe, Sam Garrett (2003). “The Rider”, p.20, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.

  Nguyen Qui Duc

  Girl, Country, War

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• I do ride a bicycle occasionally, but not those stupid stationary ones you see in gyms. I do have one of those, I must confess, but its quite literally a pain in the arse, so I dont use it.

  Christine McVie

  Pain, Stupid, Arses

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• Most people use less brains in selecting the person with whom they are to spend their lives than they do in choosing an automobile, a bicycle or a cut of steak.  Love isn't enough; there must also be understanding.

  Elsie Lincoln Benedict

  Cutting, Love Is, People

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• Listening. Nice idea but difficult to do with constant road and air traffic all around all the time. Please consider getting around by quieter means. Feet, bicycle, horse, it's up to you

  Judith Weir

  Horse, Nice, Mean

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• I simply want to celebrate the fact that right near your home, year in and year out, a community college is quietly - and with very little financial encouragement - saving lives and minds. I can’t think of a more efficient, hopeful or egalitarian machine, with the possible exception of the bicycle.

  Kay Ryan

  Encouragement, Home, College

  "It Takes a Community College" by Jenna Krajeski, www.newyorker.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Without question, bicycling is an efficient, economical and environmentally sound form of transportation and recreation. Bicycling is a great activity for families, recreational riders and commuters. Hillary, Chelsea and I have bicycles.

  William J. Clinton

  Sound, Form, Riders

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• The finest mode of transport known to man.

  Adam Hart-Davis

  Men, Cycling, Finest

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• Meet the future; the future mode of transportation for this weary Western world. Now I'm not gonna make a lot of extravagant claims for this little machine. Sure, it'll change your whole life for the better, but that's all.

  Butch Cassidy

  Cycling, Machines, World

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• I still do not know what impels anyone sound of mind to leave dry land and spend a lifetime describing people who do not exist. If it is child's play, an extension of make believe - something one is frequently assured by people who write about writing - how to account for the overriding wish to do that, just that, only that, and consider it as rational an occupation as riding a bicycle over the Alps?

  Mavis Gallant

  Children, Believe, Writing

  Mavis Gallant (2011). “Paris Stories”, p.366, New York Review of Books

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