Walking Quotes - Page 17

• At first I thought he was walking a dog. Then I realized it was his date.

  Edith Massey

  Sarcastic, Dog, Firsts

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• Mother Teresa tells a story of walking past an open drain and catching a glimpse of something moving in it. She investigated and found a dying man whom she took back to a home where he could die in love and peace. 'I live like an animal in the streets,' the man told her. 'Now I will die like an angel'.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Moving, Angel

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• The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

  Emil Nolde

  Art, Needs, Breathe

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• The other night I was walking down the stairs behind one of my daughters. I was tired, and she was goofing around, you know like kids do, doing all this stupid stuff on the stairs. And I was thinking, please just go down the stairs and let's get you to bed. It's after your bedtime. I've had enough for one day. And then I sort of caught myself. I snapped out of it. I was like, 'dude, you should be dancing down the stairs behind her'!

  Forest Whitaker

  Daughter, Dad, Stupid

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• NASA even sent Chuck Berry's music on a space probe searching for intelligent life in outer space. Well, now, if they're out there, they're duck walking

  William J. Clinton

  Intelligent, Ducks, Space

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• Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.

  Lionel Trilling

  Swimming, Wind, Conscious

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• Keep walking and keep smiling.

  Tiny Tim

  Smile, Keep Smiling, Just Keep Smiling

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• The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

  Al Smith

  Sunshine, Journey, Hiking

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• My wife uses fabric softener. I never knew what that stuff was for. Then I noticed women coming up to me, sniffing, then saying under their breath, "Married!" and walking away. Fabric Softeners are how our wives mark their territory. We can take off the ring, but it's hard to get that April fresh scent out of your clothes.

  Andy Rooney

  Clothes, Walking Away, Wife

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• When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

  Helen Rowland

  Funny, Couple, Mad

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• It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking.

  William Shakespeare

  Adders, Bright Days, Crave

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.

  Janet Morris

  Beach, Home, Fate

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.176, Paradise Publishing

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• I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.

  Helen Keller

  Stupid, Mean, Bores You

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.81, Om Books International

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• A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along the Lake Michigan Beach front, and we couldn't imagine who could draw crowds by merely walking along the beach!

  George Eiferman

  Beach, Men, Lakes

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• Recently I have done some circles that are almost that large and I've come all the way around after walking for an hour and I have hit the other side exactly. I mean exactly the right spot which is very strange. Believe me it's very, very strange.

  Jim Denevan

  Believe, Mean, Circles

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• Trying to find a heart that's not walking away.

  Mat Kearney

  Heart, Walking Away, Trying

  Song: Ships In the Night, Album: Young Love, 2011

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• The part that sickens me about boxing is guys fight their whole careers and they have nothing to show for it. That's not going to be my testimony. When it's time to get out of the game, I want to be able to walk away. I'm not going to jeopardize my health. I will have no problems walking away.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Fighting, Walking Away

  "MISSION TO BE BEST / Andre Ward, 8-0, gets ready for his first 8-round fight" by John Crumpacker, www.sfgate.com. April 25, 2006.

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• The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

  Philippe Petit

  Journey, Sky, Hiking

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• The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is wherever he may choose to stop.

  Horace Kephart

  Home, Journey, Men

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• It is one of the blessings of wilderness life that it shows us how few things we need in order to be perfectly happy.

  Horace Kephart

  Happy, Blessing, Journey

  Horace Kephart (1910). “The Book of Camping and Woodcraft: A Guidebook for Those who Travel in the Wilderness”

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• We have the opportunity now to join in the celebration of possibility, to align ourselves with the forces of life. We’ll need to become skilled at walking the line between urgency and hope, maintaining our balance in a world out of balance. I’m convinced that out of the crucible of crisis, the greatest love story on Earth could be born.

  Velcrow Ripper

  Opportunity, Crucible, Balance

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• I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

  Peter Dinklage

  Dog, Drinking, Book

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

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• You know that thing when you break up with someone and you’re walking around the town where you both live and you’re just really hoping to see them? You know that you’re not supposed to see them, but there’s nothing you want more.

  Kit Harington

  Want, Towns, Break

  "Kit Harington: This Season of GoT Has Been One Big Heartbreak". Interview with Emily Zemler, www.elle.com. June 10, 2014.

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• Walking gets too boring, when you learn how to fly.

  Shakira

  Boring

  Song: Gypsy, Album: She Wolf, 2009

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• In a city where you walk around, it's impossible to plan your day and your life as accidents will happen, you'll overhear things, bump into people, and take unexpected turns.

  Jason Schwartzman

  Journey, Cities, Hiking

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

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