Bicycle Quotes
Bicycle Quotes 自転車に関連した引用
CycleKyoto loves the odd, offbeat, quirky quote - or even the occasional bon mot - related to bikes and cycling and beyond.
Here is an arbitrary list.
Butch Cassidy
The future's all yours, you lousy bicycle!
Stephan Crane
Everything is bicycle.
John Galsworth
The bicycle...has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second. Under its influence, wholly or in part, have blossomed weekends, strong nerves, strong legs, strong language...equality of sex, good digestion and professional occupation - in four words, the emanicipation of women.
Susan B. Anthony
Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world...It gives a woman a feeling of freedom and self-reliance...the moment she takes her seat, she knows she can't run into harm unless she gets off her bicycle, and away she goes, the picture of free, untrammelled womanhood.
Jack London
Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!
Leonard Zinn
Be at one with the universe. If you can't do that, at least be at one with your bike.
Robert Penn
I've been riding bicycles for thirty-six years. Today I ride to get to work, sometimes for work, to keep fit, to bathe in air and sunshine, to go shopping, to escape when the world is breaking my balls, to savour the physical and emotional fellowship of riding with friends, to travel, to stay sane, to skip bathtime with my kids, for fun, for a moment of grace, occasionally to impress someone, to scare myself and to hear my boy laugh. Sometimes I ride my bicycle just to ride my bicycle. It's a broad church of practical, physical and emotional reasons with one unifying thing - the bicycle.
Jean Paul Sartre
Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.
Edward Albee
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.
Ernest Hemingway
It is by riding a bicycle that you can learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them...you have no such remembrance of country you have driven through.
H.G. Wells
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
Le Vélocipède Illustré, in 1869
...the steel horse fills a gap in modern life, it is an answer not only to its needs, but also to its aspirations...It's quite certainly here to stay.
David Attenborough
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
French Expression
Courir c'est mourir un peu ("To race is to die a little").
Iris Murdoch
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.
Bill Strickland
For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.
Mark Twain
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
Albert Einstein
Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Ivan Illich
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of not only all machines but all other animals as well.
John F. Kennedy
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
Queen
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Horatio Earle
I often hear now-a-days, the automobile instigated good roads; that the automobile is the parent of good roads. Well, the truth is, the bicycle is the father of the good roads movement in this country...The League fought for the privilege of building bicycle paths along the side of public highways...The League fought for equal privileges with horse-drawn vehicles. All these battles were won and the bicyclist was accorded equal rights with other users of highways and streets.