Bicycle Quotations

"Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be."

"There is something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym." 

-Bill Nye, the Science Guy 

"I'll tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than any one thing in the world. I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammeled womanhood." 

- Susan B. Anthony 1896 

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle." -Gloria Steinem

[I like the cartoon of the fish riding a bicycle -dion]
 

“Every woman and man has a right to choose to be single or partnered.

Every woman and man has a right to choose how and when to spend time in solitude or how and when to spend time with another.” -dion

 

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring." -Desmond Tutu

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"I like bicycling to where I go fishing." -dion

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"My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward

without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. - Peter Golkin

 

“When I lived in Seattle for five years I often bicycled to various old Carnegie built libraries.” -dion

"I like riding a bicycle built for two - by myself." -Harry S. Truman

"Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls." 

-Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead 

"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." -Helen Keller 
 

"Though blind Helen Keller saw and did so much more than most of us

and she rode a bicycle on occasion." -dion 

"Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body,

so a human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine."  

-Richard Ballantine

 

“We are bicycle centaurs.” -dion

"The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the

kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that a Hellenistic Greek

might have invented and ridden. It does no violence to our normal reactions:

it does not pretend to free us from our normal environment." -J.B. Jackson 

 

“Beware of Greeks bearing bicycles.” -dion

 

"Chasing records doesn't keep me on my bicycle.

Happiness does." -Lance Armstrong

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"Unhealthy physiological and mind altering chemicals and behaviors don't make me happy.

Bicycling in nature does." -dion

 

"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world." 

-Grant Petersen, Bicycle designer and owner of Rivendell Bicycle Works

 

"I save a little part of the world when I ride my bicycle.

I save the world and our humanity environmentally and spiritually.

I cherish the beauty of poetry in motion of all existence." -dion 

"If you only see the Bull's Head and not the saddle and handlebars from

which it is made, then the sculpture loses its interest." 

-Pablo Picasso, on 'The Bull's Head one of his most famous works

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely,

should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets." -Christopher Morley

“Being in nature and ecstatic writing and bicycling are my three main spiritual paths.

Bicycling takes me between and to the other two paths.
Will you come on any of these paths on a joyful spiritual and adventure with me -

we as brother/sister heart friends?” --dion

"If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century,

I suppose we would see bicycles." -Carl Sagan

 

"With humans, it is like the bicycle. Only when moving can we easily keep balanced." -Albert Einstein

"I thought of that while riding my bike." -Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity  

"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is though nothing is a miracle.
The other is though everything is."
- Albert Einstein

“As we ride our bicycles we can find ways to transform our lives and others lives to a place where we all can perform miracles.” -dion              

"Cycling provides all the big lessons in life: humility, pride, greed, discipline, grappling with the ego, and learning what your will is and when and how to apply it." 

-John Weissenrider

"Bicycling shows us our powerlessness and teaches us the difference between the 'power over'

and the 'power of' and takes us to a place of stillness within a vibration of energy." -dion

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"Bicycles have no walls". -Paul Cornish

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"Riding a bike is the closest you can get to flying". -Robin Williams 

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"Oh Robin, you funny, sad man - I wish you had chosen bicycling over flying away." -dion

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"Crashing is part of cycling as crying is part of love." - Johan Museeuw

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“[A bicycle is] an unparalled merger of a toy, a utilitarian vehicle, and sporting equipment. The bicycle can be used in so many ways, and approaches perfection in each use. 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. A person pedalling a bike uses energy more efficiently than a gazelle or an eagle. And a triangle-framed bicycles can easily carry ten times its own weight – a capacity no automobile, airplane or bridge can match.”
–Bill Strickland, author.

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"I don't ride a bike to add days to my life. I ride a bike to add life to my days." -Unknown

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"Four wheels move your body, two wheels move your soul." -Unknown

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