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Bicycle Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was around thirty, I met my own personal challenge and finished a few marathons under three hours, and I have completed many long bicycle tours.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The journey of life is like a man riding a bicycle. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. We know that if he stops moving and does not get off he will fall off.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.
- Commuting
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1941 I finished at Allison Intermediate School (grades 7-9), and started at North High School, commuting by bicycle about 5 miles from home to school.
- Innocent
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- Nov 07, 2020
Teenage girls in television and film, in my experience, oftentimes are portrayed as either the sweet, innocent virgin or the super-sexy, experienced, town bicycle. There never seems to be an in-between. I think most girls are somewhere in between those two tropes.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did more to emancipate women than any other single thing. The bicycle was linked in the psyches of women at that time as a symbol of practical emancipation. Women could go places, wear their skirts shorter to manage the bicycle, and be independent.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
She who succeeds in gaining the mastery of the bicycle will gain the mastery of life.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started manufacturing bicycle parts. I come from a city called Ludhiana where almost everybody is self-employed, and either you make bicycle parts or bicycles, or hosiery parts or hosiery goods.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation.
- Ride
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- Nov 07, 2020
It could be a walk in the park, it could be a ride on your bicycle. It does not have to be an organized team activity... Be as creative as you want, but find a way to get your exercise in.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reality of Katrina didn't really strike me until the first time I flew up in a helicopter and saw areas of the city that I had ridden my bicycle as a youth being fully flooded.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.
- Kick
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bicycle kick is not easy to do.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bicycle kick is not easy to do. I scored 1,283 goals, and only two or three were bicycle kicks.
- Photography
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked a little as a messenger on a bicycle and then decided to study photography and film.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we were working on 'Looking' in San Francisco, I bought a new bike from Mission Bicycle Company, which I'm completely in love with.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The White Woman on the Green Bicycle' is a love story mapped onto an unfolding political tragedy: that of the failure of the Independence era in Trinidad.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really love 'Bicycle Thief.' That just reminds me of my relationship with my father.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The woods that I loved as a child are entirely gone. The woods that I loved as a young adult are gone. The woods that most recently I walked in are not gone, but they're full of bicycle trails.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.
- Encyclopedia
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, what captivated me about detective fiction were the puzzles more than the detectives or their enemies. And as I've gotten older, I see a lot of merit in setting your investigative sights higher than figuring out how someone stole Encyclopedia Brown's bicycle.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bicycle freed 19th-century women from their homes and from their dependence on men. I hope that in Saudi Arabia, the car will do the same.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ride a bicycle. I make artwork and do other kinds of stuff - but in terms of unwind, I like to play tennis and ride.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm lazy. But it's the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle because they didn't like walking or carrying things.
- Nov 07, 2020
The bicycle thing - well, since people couldn't use their cars, they had to use their bicycles, didn't they?
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.
- Nov 07, 2020
My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ronald has had bicycle safety and safety in the home. Yes, Ronald is McDonald's, second most recognised figure after Santa Claus, and there's an element of obviously benefiting your business.
- Planning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Urban planning and design are helping us to shift from a car-centric system to a bike-centric one by making bicycles and bicycle infrastructure superior in functionality and attractiveness.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was trying to write a novel, I ran out of money, and I was delivering packages on a bicycle. And I finally connected with these guys who started a software company, and almost serendipitously fell into that. I felt like they were goofy guys and that I was a goofy guy.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was close to like a 67- or 70-day shoot for 'Tron' on stage, in the suit. You can't even sit down during the day because of all the cables that divide the foam rubber and all the electrical circuits. We had these stools that were tall with a bicycle seat on them and you're just looking at a blue screen all day.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives.
- Explains
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, the French have had a romantic attachment to their bikes. Though the first functioning two-wheeler is thought to have been invented by a German in 1817, it was the French who popularized and marketed the device in the 1860s, giving it the name 'bicycle.'
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every day since the start of the Tour de France, the popular 'Le Parisien' newspaper has published a story about a book written with the bicycle in mind.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
John Kerry had a very vivid imagination as a young person. I mean, he actually did go and take his bicycle from Norway to go camp in Sherwood Forest to be around the ghost of Robin Hood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have an ElliptiGO. It's a standup bicycle. You don't pedal; you stride on it. It allows me to have the same striding motion as running without the impact.
- Nov 07, 2020
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up north of Chicago, not far from where the Schwinn bicycle plant used to be, and was conscious of the fact that these beautiful, everlasting bikes were made just down the road.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was young, I used to expect Parisians to wear little black berets, to bicycle about with strings of onions around their necks, and to brandish long sticks of bread, just like they used to do in school textbooks.
- Dozens
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 25 years ago, I took a bicycle across the United States. I soon found out that the greatest item of clothing was the trusty bandanna. There were dozens of uses for a bandanna - as a pot holder, a chain cleaner, a sun shield, a headband, a snot rag, a declaration of Kerouacian intent.
- Nov 07, 2020
But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, my first bicycle was very much a used bike. I wasn't going to Wal-Mart, buying a flashy 10-speed bike from China. Are you kidding me?
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father got a phone call to bring me in to meet with Spielberg for 'E.T.,' partially because they knew I was a physical kid, and I was known in the business somewhat as a stunt kid, and I could do all the bicycle riding.
- Environment
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment.
- Riding
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ideally, writing ought to be like riding a bicycle: something you know how to do without having to think consciously about exactly what it is that you are doing.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked behind counters serving food, and I've lived on the circus train, and I've led bicycle tours in Eastern Europe and the Balkans and Russia. I've been a key liner for a newspaper, I've done typesetting. Oh, all sorts of things.
- Gym
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
- Ensure
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- Nov 07, 2020
An increase in bicycle ridership brings an increased need for measures to ensure the safety of cyclists.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interested in transcendence from a very early age. I was interested in what was over there, what was behind life. So when I had my first communion I was very disappointed. I had expected something amazing and surprising and spiritual. Instead all I got was a bicycle. That wasn't what I was after at all.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're looking for a behind-the-scenes rock-n-roll biography, pick up Nikki Sixx's 'The Heroin Diaries'. If you want the world's most narcissistic high school yearbook, however, 'First Step 2 Forever' is your new bicycle.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020