Biking Quotes

• When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Blue, Ice

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• I'm lucky that mountian biking wasn't around when I was 20, because I wouldn't have won the Tour de France. It's my kind of sport - hard, individualistic, and not a lot of tactics.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Cycling, Lucky

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• Mountain biking helps people become environmentalists. A mountain bike is a vehicle to appreciate the backcountry.

  Ned Overend

  People, Appreciate, Mountain

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• My culinary wardrobe is the same as my biking wardrobe, just no shoes.

  Lela Rose

  Shoes, Culinary, Wardrobe

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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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  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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• 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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• Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Dog, Motor Racing, Car

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• If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rain, Riding Your Bike, Motorcycle

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• When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments.

  Elizabeth West

  Men, Cycling, Bikers

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• The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.

  John Howard

  Fitness, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

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• For me, it's like biking around the neighborhood, the walks and stuff, because I have never enjoyed the gym. Or I'll do, since I used to dance a lot, all the old dance exercises.

  Delta Burke

  Inspirational, Dance, Exercise

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• I love England though; I've been back a few times and just love it. My favorite thing to do there is going to museums and all the castles. Oh, and my husband and I went mountain biking across England on our honeymoon!

  Catherine Bell

  Husband, Museums, Mountain

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “By-Line Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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• The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

  Christopher Morley

  Healing, Cycling, Novelists

  Christopher Morley (1935). “Morley's Magnum”

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

  Alexei Sayle

  Motorcycle Gangs, People, Riding

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• The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.

  Ivan Illich

  Animal, Men, Cycling

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• The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.

  Iris Murdoch

  Men, Cycling, Riding A Bicycle

  IRIS MURDOCH (1965). “THE RED AND THE GREEN”

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• You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Love Yourself, Risk

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• When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

  Diane Ackerman

  Heart, Civilization, World

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• People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Motorcycle Gangs, People, Riding

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• 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

  Inspirational, Dream, Memories

  H. G. Wells (2009). “The Wheels of Chance: A Bicycling Idyll”, p.71, The Floating Press

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• If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky.

  Carl Sagan

  Century, Tandem Bikes, Bike Riding

  "Cosmos".

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• Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

  Flann O'Brien

  Inspirational, Cycling, Watches

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• Tens of thousands who could never afford to own, feed and stable a horse, had by this bright invention enjoyed the swiftness of motion which is perhaps the most fascinating feature of material life.

  Frances E. Willard

  Horse, Cycling, Swiftness

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