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Quotes About Walking

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.
~ Edward Abbey
Breathe life into the weapon, don't take life away from it. Keep walking, because walking is life.
~ Masaaki Hatsumi
I spun away from him. I didn't need his pity. I started walking in the opposite direction of the house. I didn't know where I was going, I just wanted to get away from him. He called out, "I still love you." I froze. And then slowly, I turned around to look at him. "Don't say that
~ Jenny Han
I hate snails. I don't trust them. Pulling their house on their back. Walking around, "Nothing can harm me, I've got my house on my back." Crunch. "Where did that foot come from? Bastard broke my house. I don't have insurance for that."
~ Jeremy Hotz
One of the "talents" God has given to every Christian is the possibility of walking in holiness, being free from the dominion of sin
~ Jerry Bridges
I walked and walked, sometimes with an objective- a friend's house, a shop, the church or school- but mostly at random, to outrun oppression.
~ Jessica Anderson
I ran into the driveway, my husband said, "I thought you were supposed to be walking." "I was," I panted, "until I ran out of Twinkies to hold off the dogs.
~ Erma Bombeck
We walked across the bridge and were on our own side of the river. Are you hungry again? I said. Us. Talking and walking. Of course, Tatie. Aren't you? Let's go to a wonderful place and have a truly grand dinner. Where? Michaud's? That's perfect and it's so close.
~ Ernest Hemingway
The most common objection that I hear to walking as exercise is that it's too easy, that only sweaty, strenuous activity offers real benefits. But there is abundant evidence that regular, brisk walking is associated with better health, including lower blood pressure, better moods and improved cholesterol ratios.
~ Andrew Weil
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines.
~ Andrew Weil
Mother had an old aunt over at Allington when she was a girl, Aunt Lily Dale, and she was great on families and used to snap mother's head off if she didn't know who was whose relation, especially in East Barsetshire. She had some kind of dislike to the de Courcys, mother never knew why, and wouldn't talk about them, but otherwise she was a walking 'Who's Who.
~ Angela Thirkell
I love the Pembroke coastal path. Whenever I've been there, it's been sunny, but slightly bracing. So you're happy to keep walking, but you'll get a bit of a tan. The wildflowers and the insects are great and you'll occasionally see a small mammal.
~ Tony Robinson
If I have open time, and I'm in Manhattan, I'll just walk to wherever I'm going, even if I could get there faster on the subway. I just love walking the streets of New York.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
~ Bobby Darin
Working on 'Lonely, I'm Not' - I love the material so much, and it's spring in New York, so I'm walking home whistling every day.
~ Topher Grace
It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part, too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick.
~ Adolphe Menjou
I think walking is a little more primal than art-making.
~ Charles Ray
'Legends Walking' was the first of my books to go to a second printing based on strong initial orders, but much of that printing never found its audience.
~ Jane Lindskold
Being in New York, I have fallen in love with walking and listening to podcasts.
~ Danielle Campbell
This is Massachusetts, we're supposed to be one of the tech centers of the world. We have MIT within walking distance of the state house.
~ Charlie Baker
The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable
~ Robert James Waller
Walk,' was my answer, 'I definitely must, to invigorate myself and to maintain contact with the living world.... Without walking, I would be dead.
~ Robert Walser
Oh, it is heavenly and good and in simplicity most ancient to walk on foot, provided of course one's shoes or boots are in order.
~ Robert Walser
He walked as he'd learned to walk, with only a minimal limp, back straight, head held high in confidence rather than cockiness. He walked like a man who had learned to lean into God for whatever strenth he needed.
~ Robin Lee Hatcher