Walking Quotes - Page 6

• There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.

  G. M. Trevelyan

  Journey, Land, Hiking

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Beauty, Loneliness

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• I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

  Mary Oliver

  Notebook, Writing, Journey

  Interview with Renee Olander, www.awpwriter.org. September, 1994.

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• If I make your workplace conducive to walking at lunch, or working out at some time during the day, or I get people to use the stairs more by creating incentives to do such, then people will start doing it naturally.

  Mehmet Oz

  Journey, Lunch, Hiking

  "Behind the Scenes in the O.R. With Dr. Oz" by Katie Escherich, abcnews.go.com. August 25, 2009.

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• People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at it - walk.

  Ayn Rand

  People, Looks, Thrive

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.264, Penguin

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• I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Journey, Thinking, Swings

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• I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.

  Steven Tyler

  Friends, Beautiful, Winter

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• And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.

  Walt Whitman

  Sympathy, Funeral, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.41, Wildside Press LLC

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• I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Eyeglasses

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

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• I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures.

  Gary Snyder

  Girl, Children, Writing

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• For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the heroine out of the social sphere of the houses and their inhabitants, into a larger, lonelier world where she is free to think: walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Pride, Journey, Thinking

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• The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an alleory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).

  Rebecca Solnit

  Journey, Hiking, Mountain

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• As I went walking I saw a sign there And on the sign it said "No Trespassing." But on the other side it didn't say nothing, That side was made for you and me. This land is your land, this land is my land From California to the New York island From the Redwood forest to the Gulf Stream waters This land was made for you and me.

  Woody Guthrie

  New York, Journey, Islands

  "This Land Is Your Land" (song) (1956)

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• There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

  Wendell Berry

  Journey, Feet, Hiking

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• Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Mr Right

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Woods, Spirit, Sauntering

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.395, Penguin

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• I cry a lot. I'll cry because I see a person walking down the street looking lonely.

  Drew Barrymore

  Lonely, Cry, Streets

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• Fit men walking around and bathing, it would be just like being in Ancient Rome [on a footballers dressing room

  John Barrowman

  Men, Rome, Would Be

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• I feel like I'm walking on eggs and can't take another step.

  Bill Buckner

  Eggs, Steps, Feels

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• The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

  Princess Margaret

  Queens, Walking Away, Hands

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

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• Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.

  Anthony Holden

  Love, Running, Baseball

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  You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Encouraging

  Richard Branson (2010). “Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur”, Virgin

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• When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Inspirational, Sleep, Night

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1928). “Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart”

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• If anyone tries to complicate your life, turn and walk away from them.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Bad Relationship, Positivity

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