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Quotes About Walking

Listening carefully to classical music, writing letters, reading the classics and walking were just some of the activities that she used to rekindle her spirit and reconnect with a part of herself she thought she had lost.
~ Robin S. Sharma
Most right-handed people end up walking wide counterclockwise circles, because most right-handed people have left legs fractionally shorter than their right legs. Basic biology and geometry. I avoided that particular peril by stepping to the right of every tenth tree I came to, whether I thought I needed to or not.
~ Lee Child
with a man. Three children walking stolidly
~ Lee Child
I'll be on another case soon. You won't need me anymore. You'll be walking, though I think you should wait a while before climbing another mountain. You're my therapist, Blake snapped. Dione gave a little laugh. For months you've depended on me more than any other person in your life. Your perspective is distorted now. Believe me, by the time I've been gone a month, you won't even think about me. 'Do you mean you'd just turn your back on me and walk away? he asked disbelievingly.
~ Linda Howard
Walking and talking—that seemed a very odd way of spending an afternoon.
~ Aldous Huxley
The shoes themselves were light green, with lowish heels (which were very important for comfort and walking; high heels were always a temptation, but, like all temptations, one paid for them later).
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Lions walk on four legs, observed Mma Makutsi. Was this man walking on four legs? That can be a big giveaway, Mma.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
A funambulist! muttered Isabel. Eddie, moving towards the door, stopped. What's that? Isabel explained. Cat's new boyfriend. A funambulist. One who walks on tightropes. Like all of us, she thought. In the final analysis.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
Okay then, we're set" he thought. "Come and get it". The enemy, his enemy, were walking into the classic football ambush and they didn't have a fucking clue.
~ Dougie Brimson
The Bible reveals the Father's overall plan for the world and provides general guidelines for life. But how can we know His specific plans for us? Listening to God is essential to walking with God.
~ Charles Stanley
Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.
~ Andrew Weil
I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Hundreds of false rumors of alleged attacks by the man-eater were brought to us, entailing endless miles of walking, but this was only to be expected, for in an area in which an established man-eater is operating everyone suspects their own shadows, and every sound heard at night is attributed to the man-eater.
~ Jim Corbett
I sit on hard chairs — soft ones spread the hips. Unlike Oscar Levant, who said he never stood when he could sit and never sat when he could lie down, I stand and walk as much as I can. I don't think any of us walk enough, especially those of us who have desk work to do. When the work is done, the day is gone, and we take the shortest (sitting-down) route home. A walk before bedtime is the best cure for insomnia as well as a way of getting a little more exercise.
~ Joan Crawford
She thought to herself how amazing it was that she was here, walking at dusk with an old pirate-her (italics), May! If only Somber Kitty could have seen her. Maybe he would see her, soon. The thought lifted her spirits.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
Teoria sbagliata - Un filosofo che non poteva camminare perché si pestava la barba, si tagliò i piedi.
~ Jodorowsky, Alejandro
Every weekday, rain or shine, gunplay or bombs, standoff or riots, I preferred to walk home, reading my latest book. This would be a 19th century book, because I did not like 20th century books, because I did not like the 20th century.
~ Anna Burns
Gradually he realized that he was really walking up University Place, self-conscious about his suitcase, developing a new tendency to glare straight ahead when he passed any one.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. And I don't ever want you to forget that. You hear me?
~ Fannie Flagg
As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I don't know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).
~ Fernando Pessoa
Exercise is good for you, so I'm always walking. I don't drink sodas or eat fast food, either.
~ Fantastic Negrito
Living Step by Step Because nomadic life in ancient times was defined by a continual walking from place to place, the Bible emphasizes the importance of a person's steps and feet. As one Old Testament scholar explained, "Although the Hebrew is keenly aware of the role the hand plays in human actions, [it] still places more emphasis on the
~ Robert Saucy
From his brimstone bed, at break of day,A-walking the Devil is gone,To look at his little snug farm of the world,And see how his stock went on.
~ Robert Southey
And then we would leave, and by that time it would already be dark, and as we headed to the bus or the subway or went walking home, we would eat our sandwiches, enjoying the Mexico City night, which I've always thought is gorgeous, the nights here are mostly cool and bright but not cold, nights made for walking or fucking, nights made for talking.
~ Roberto Bolano