Bicycle Quotes - Page 5

• Trusting your intuition is like learning to ride a bike. Everything takes practice before it becomes second nature.

  James Van Praagh

  Trust, Nature, Learning

  FaceBook post by James Van Praagh from Dec 27, 2014

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• Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

  Laurent Fignon

  Sports, Men, Hammers

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• Cyling has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world

  Susan B. Anthony

  Clever, Cycling, Riding

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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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• Let a man find himself, in distinction from others, on top of two wheels with a chain - at least in a poor country like Russia - and his vanity begins to swell out like his tires. In America it takes an automobile to produce this effect.

  Leon Trotsky

  Inspirational, Country, Men

  Leon Trotsky (1932). “The History of the Russian Revolution ...”

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• I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs; I never look to right or left, never notice a flower, never see a view - get hot, juicy, red - like a grilled chop. Get me on that machine and I have to go. I go scorching along the road, and cursing aloud at myself for doing it.

  H. G. Wells

  Flower, Exercise, Cycling

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• Isn't it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur?

  Henri Desgrange

  Cycling, Triumph, Muscles

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• Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

  Helen Keller

  Life And Love, Cycling, Tolerance

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.224, 谷月社

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• I always go to bed thinking I'm the luckiest guy in the world.

  Justin Theroux

  Thinking, Cycling, Riding Your Bike

  "Jen and Justin Show Their Love in Paris". extratv.com. June 12, 2012.

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• A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine.

  Richard Ballantine

  Perfect, Machines, Synthesis

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• Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

  Jim Rohn

  Relationship, Kids, Two

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 30, 2017

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• If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one of the healthiest, least oil-dependent, and most environmentally-sound constituents in the Nazi empire today.

  Ralph Nader

  War, Cycling, Oil

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• Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

  Leslie Nielsen

  Hurt, Truth, Reality

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• We had to build a city not for businesses or automobiles, but for children and thus for people. Instead of building highways, we restricted car use. We invested in high-quality sidewalks, pedestrian streets, parks, bicycle paths, libraries; we got rid of thousands of cluttering commercial signs and planted trees. All our everyday efforts have one objective: Happiness.

  Enrique Penalosa

  Children, Cities, People

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• When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity.

  Boris Johnson

  Cycling, Law, Ubiquity

  "Why we cyclists need to strike a deal with pedestrians" by Boris Johnson, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2006.

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• A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

  Lance Armstrong

  Heart, Mean, Long

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• Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do! I'm half crazy, all for the love of you! It won't be a stylish marriage I can't afford a carriage But you'll look sweet upon the seat Of a bicycle built for two!

  Harry Dacre

  Love, Sweet, Crazy

  "Daisy Bell" (song) (1892)

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• People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.

  Albert Einstein

  Moving, Long, People

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.176, Princeton University Press

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• Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

  Nancy Mairs

  Writing, Practice, Riding

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• 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

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• Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go to coffee shops or see airplanes land at the airport.

  Andrea Hirata

  Stars, Coffee, Airplane

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• Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

  George Weah

  Process, Pedals, Ifs

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• It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

  David Byrne

  Thinking, Riding, Stuff

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• Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!

  Jack London

  Cycling, Life Worth Living, Railroad Tracks

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.193, Stanford University Press

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• My home life is very much about getting up in the morning and getting to the gym or getting on my bicycle and making sure that I get to cook dinner for my boyfriend.

  Erika Christensen

  Morning, Home, My Boyfriend

  Interview with Renisha Marie, entertainment.renishamarie.org. August 9, 2015.

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