Dervla Murphy Quotes About Bicycle

• Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.

  Dervla Murphy

  Events, Buying, Partners

  Dervla Murphy (2001). “South From the Limpopo”, p.235, The Overlook Press

• On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.

  Dervla Murphy

  Inspirational, India, Atlas

  1965 Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle.

• 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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