Bicycle Quotes: Pedal Your Way to Inspiration

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race"

"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"

William Golding, Novelist

"If I can bicycle, I bicycle"

David Attenborough, Journalist

"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"

Quentin Crisp, Writer

"Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong"

Terry Pratchett, Author

"The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets"

Christopher Morley, Author

"A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle"

Gloria Steinem, Activist

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me"

Emo Philips, Comedian

"I don't carry any early childhood trauma around with me, if that's what you're hinting at. The story of the bicycles - and there were three of them which were stolen from me - I've dealt with it well"

Angela Merkel, Statesman

"I still love to walk in the mountains or be on the sea. I like to be in nature. Sometimes I bicycle. It's important to feel good with your body. The body is extremely important. If you feel good, you have more energy in your singing"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field"

Tori Amos, Musician

"In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders"

Vernon L. Smith, Economist

"One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living"

James Cameron, Director

"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"

Lech Walesa, Activist

"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"

Vernon L. Smith, Economist

"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"

Jim Cantalupo, Businessman

"But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars"

Christiane Amanpour, Journalist

"Because, you know, I can't work a bicycle pump"

Judi Dench, Actress

"Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use"

Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist

"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"

Vittorio De Sica, Director

"It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle"

Lynn Abbey, Author

"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"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd"

John Pomfret

"To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world"

Major Taylor, Athlete

"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"

Brock Yates, Editor

"Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias"

Lois Capps, Politician

"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"

Joseph C. Lincoln

"Now I walk every where I can. I also ride a stationary bicycle for a total of 30 minutes. I do it three or more times a week now and I have lost 20 pounds"

Della Reese, Musician

"Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life"

Brian Tracy, Author

"Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit"

Billy Connolly, Comedian

"The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle"

Dean Kamen, Inventor