Walking Quotes - Page 29

• We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.

  Yoweri Museveni

  Fighting, Feet, Rebel

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• A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

  John Millington Synge

  Journey, Hiking, Islands

  John Millington Synge (2008). “The Aran Islands and Connemara”, p.39, Mercier Press Ltd

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• I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

  Ric Ocasek

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Looks, Extravagance, Lovers

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1976). “Poems, 1906 to 1926”

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• Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

  John L. Phillips

  Guy, Needs, Mars

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• Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Loving Life, Hair

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• When we were walking through the narrow alleys [of the Mathare Valley slums], it was literally impossible not to step in the raw sewage and the garbage alongside the little homes. But at the same time it was also impossible not to see the human vitality, the aspiration and the ambition of the people who live there.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Home, Ambition, People

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• It seems possible to give a preliminary definition of walking as a space of enunciation.

  Michel de Certeau

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  "The Practice of Everyday Life".

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• To walk is to lack a place. It is the indefinite process of being absent and in search of a proper.

  Michel de Certeau

  Process, Walks, Absent

  Michel de Certeau (2011). “The Practice of Everyday Life”, p.103, Univ of California Press

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• I think people are just shocked to see me walking around. It's weird. When they see you on TV, they don't expect to see you in a store.

  Victoria Pratt

  Thinking, People, Tvs

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• We are daughters of our Heavenly Father. We are covenant-making women of all ages walking the path of mortality back to His presence. Keeping covenants protects us, prepares us, and empowers us.

  Rosemary M. Wixom

  Daughter, Father, Empowering

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• I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character.

  Sarah Zettel

  Fall, Character, Piano

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• There are times when I can find myself in a book, too, for two or three hours. But afterward I have such an urge to go out and reach for other people. Very often they're not around. There's also a metaphysical loneliness. We all feel it. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share. You take a step in a house, you start moving around the house, no one else moves with you. You're walking by yourself.

  David Ignatow

  Loneliness, Moving, Book

  David Ignatow, Ralph J. Mills (1980). “Open between us”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The place where you lose the trail is not necessarily the place where it ends.

  Tom Brown, Jr.

  Hiking, Ends, Trails

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• All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.

  Boyle Roche

  Hands, Unseen, Path

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• I remember lying down for a nap one day at about 4:00 and walking up at 11:00 the next morning.

  April Winchell

  Morning, Lying, Naps

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• Why can't everything be as easy as walking into H&M and putting a week's worth of clothes on a credit card?

  Emma McLaughlin

  Clothes, Cards, Credit

  Emma McLaughlin, Nicola Kraus (2009). “Nanny Returns: A Novel”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Just look at my face. Its an extraordinary experience. All of my friends who are grandparents have been saying, just wait, a bit cynically, but its just extraordinary. You feel like a child again yourself. Just walking on air.

  Blythe Danner

  Children, Air, Grandparent

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• Details of the many walks I made along the crest have blurred, now, into a pleasing tapestry of grass and space and sunlight.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Hiking, Space

  Colin Fletcher (2014). “The Secret Worlds of Colin Fletcher”, p.105, Vintage

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• The best dress for walking is nakedness.

  Colin Fletcher

  Dresses, Nudists

  Colin Fletcher, Chip Rawlins (2015). “The Complete Walker IV”, p.754, Knopf

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• Mostly, two miles an hour is good going.

  Colin Fletcher

  Journey, Two, Hiking

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• From 1997 to 2003, there was a decline of 50 percent in the proportion of children nine to twelve who spent time in such outside activities as hiking, walking, fishing, beach play, and gardening, according to a study by Sandra Hofferth at the University of Maryland.

  Richard Louv

  Beach, Children, Fishing

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.34, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• At one point, I said to the officials that you guys haven't called walking for 20 years, now you don't know what it is. When you call walking, you're about half right.

  Bobby Knight

  Years, Guy, Half

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• Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Done, Doing Nothing

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 2, 2000.

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• EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Exploring The World, Mind, Way

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.16, Penguin

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