birds quotes by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE; RC; SD; NEMYL-->-1462685879
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
birds quotes by J.G. HOLLAND-1462684657
God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into its nest.
birds quotes by ERIC BERNE-1462675203
The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing.
birds quotes by W.H. HUDSON-1462644169
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
birds quotes by IZAAK WALTON-1462638642
Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.
birds quotes by HENRY DAVID THOREAU-1462637281
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
birds quotes by JOSEPH ADDISON-1462635540
I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.
bicycling quotes by WILLIAM GOLDING-1462632678
Consider a man riding a bicycle. Whoever he is, we can say three things about him. We know he got on the bicycle and started to move. We know that at some point he will stop and get off. Most important of all, we know that if at any point between the beginning and the end of his journey he stops moving and does not get off the bicycle he will fall off it. That is a metaphor for the journey through life of any living thing, and I think of any society of living things.
bicycling quotes by DAVID PERRY-1462614171
What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor.
bicycling quotes by KARL KRON-1462612246
All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet.
bicycling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1462600708
Most bicyclists in New York City obey instinct far more than they obey the traffic laws, which is to say that they run red lights, go the wrong way on one-way streets, violate cross-walks, and terrify innocents, because it just seems easier that way. Cycling in the city, and particularly in midtown, is anarchy without malice.
bicycling quotes by GRANT PETERSEN-1462597949
Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world.
bicycling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1462596622
All bicycles weigh fifty pounds. A thirty-pound bicycle needs a twenty-pound lock. A forty-pound bicycle needs a ten-pound lock. A fifty-pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.
bicycling quotes by CHIP BROWN-1462595273
If you ride you know those moments when you have fed yourself into the traffic, felt the hashed-up asphalt rattle in the handlebars, held a lungful of air in a cloud of exhaust. Up ahead there are two parallel buses. With cat's whiskers, you measure the clearance down a doubtful alley. You swing wide, outflank that flower truck. The cross-street yellow light is turning red. You burst off the green like a surfer on a wave of metal. You have a hundred empty yards of Broadway to yourself.
bicycling quotes by JIM MALUSA-1462593971
Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside.
bicycling quotes by JULIE FURTADO-1462561431
The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash.
bicycling quotes by H.G. WELLS-1462557909
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.
birth control quotes by BOB RUBIN-1462556054
Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus.
birds quotes by CHINESE PROVERB-1462554402
A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.
birds quotes by DIXON LANIER MERRITT-1462540533
A wonderful bird is the pelicanHis bill will hold more than his belican.He can take in his beakFood enough for a week,But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
bicycling quotes by DANIEL BEHRMAN-1462514365
You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
bicycling quotes by PAUL SCOTT MOWRER-1462510386
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
bicycling quotes by LOUIS J. HELLE-1462473071
Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
bicycling quotes by AMY WEBSTER-1462466544
The sound of a car door opening in front of you is similar to the sound of a gun being cocked.
bicycling quotes by GURDON S. LEETE-1462457211
It is curious that with the advent of the automobile and the airplane, the bicycle is still with us. Perhaps people like the world they can see from a bike, or the air they breathe when they're out on a bike. Or they like the bicycle's simplicity and the precision with which it is made. Or because they like the feeling of being able to hurtle through air one minute, and saunter through a park the next, without leaving behind clouds of choking exhaust, without leaving behind so much as a footstep.
bicycling quotes by JOHN F. KENNEDY-1462439766
Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
bicycling quotes by ERNEST HEMINGWAY-1462438434
It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.
bicycling quotes by IVAN ILLICH-1462437013
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.
bicycling quotes by JO BURT(THANKS-1462435693
If we all, mountain bikers, cyclists, multinational companies, Jo Public, respected the land like old civilizations we wouldn't get so many punctures. Earth's revenge.
bicycling quotes by H.G. WELLS-1462434161
After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.
bicycling quotes by P.J. O'ROURKE-1462432380
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.
bicycling quotes by SLOAN WILSON-1462431010
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need can hit hard.
bicycling quotes by STEVE JOHNSON-1462424016
Cycling is unique. No other sport lets you go like that - where there's only the bike left to hold you up. If you ran as hard, you'd fall over. Your legs wouldn't support you.
bicycling quotes by HENRY MILLER-1462384889
I took care of my wheel as one would look after a Rolls Royce. If it needed repairs I always brought it to the same shop on Myrtle Avenue run by a negro named Ed Perry. He handled the bike with kid gloves, you might say. He would always see to it that neither front nor back wheel wobbled. Often he would do a job for me without pay, because, as he put it, he never saw a man so in love with his bike as I was.
bicycling quotes by J.B. JACKSON-1462381702
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.
bicycling quotes by ANN STRONG-1462380302
The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community.
bicycling quotes by JAMES BETHEA-1462378582
Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome.
bicycling quotes by JACQUIE PHELAN-1462338162
Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm.
bicycling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1462334771
[T]he bicycle will accomplish more for women's sensible dress than all the reform movements that have ever been waged.
bicycling quotes by BILL EMERSON-1462301814
A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun.
bicycling quotes by BILL STRICKLAND-1462300602
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.
bicycling quotes by DIANE ACKERMAN-1462298211
When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day's sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay's call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.
bicycling quotes by H.G. WELLS-1462296771
When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
bicycling quotes by ELIZABETH WEST-1462295418
When man invented the bicycle he reached the peak of his attainments. Here was a machine of precision and balance for the convenience of man. And (unlike subsequent inventions for man's convenience) the more he used it, the fitter his body became. Here, for once, was a product of man's brain that was entirely beneficial to those who used it, and of no harm or irritation to others. Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.
bicycling quotes by IRIS MURDOCH-1462294203
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.
bicycling quotes by FLANN O'BRIEN-1462253997
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
bicycling quotes by FRANCES WILLARD-1462252526
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.
bicycling quotes by AUTHOR UNKNOWN-1462250876
It would not be at all strange if history came to the conclusion that the perfection of the bicycle was the greatest incident of the nineteenth century.
bicycling quotes by JOHN HOWARD-1462211582
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.
bicycling quotes by CHRISTOPHER MORLEY-1462209789
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.
Belief Quotes by BERTRAND RUSSELL-1462182186
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
Belief Quotes by ARTHUR SCHWEITZER-1462177904
Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never the correctness, of a belief.
Belief Quotes by LAURENS VAN DER POST-1462165932
Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.
Belief Quotes by ANTONIO PORCHIA-1462164403
When I believe in nothing I do not want to meet you when you believe in nothing.
Belief Quotes by BERTRAND RUSSELL-1462114759
Not... what opinions are held, but... how they are held: instead of being held dogmatically, [liberal] opinions are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.
Belief Quotes by BLAISE PASCAL-1462087528
Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.
Belief Quotes by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING-1462086107
Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.
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