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Quotes About Walking

And walk not proudly on the earth verily thou shalt never cleave the earth, nor reach to the mountains in height
~ Koran
Love has its speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It goes on in the depth of our life, whether we notice or not, at three miles an hour. It is the speed we walk and therefore the speed the love of God walks.
~ Kosuke Koyama
along with the rest of our helpless world; and, O, if you could, you would, where lovers walked, sell off trees and not give a flying fuck for the muted mausoleums of the bees.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
We are built to walk. Not to SoulCycle and jog and hike. Walking is mental. You sharpen your thoughts and process your emotions.
~ Caroline Kepnes
But research coming from the fields of evolutionary biology, physiology and neuroscience is all pointing to the fact that walking a lot, and running a little, made our species what it is today. If we don't do it enough, we risk losing our mental and emotional edge.
~ Caroline Williams
You are walking to Hope Springs?" "Yes, Your Grace." "In this weather?" She glanced around and gave him a smile. "I haven't any other weather to walk in.
~ Carolyn Jewel
But let's face it, the world of sex is weird no matter how you look at it. I mean-fourteen hours after you've had your face smashed into someone's genitals, you're walking down the street with the boy as though that were all "just fine, thank you, how are you!
~ Carrie Fisher
Remember: If you go for a walk with a friend in England, don't say a single word for hours; if you go for a walk with your dog, talk to it all the time.
~ George Mikes
She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear,...
~ George R. R. Martin
Bad enough when the dead come walking,"he said (Dolorous Edd) to Jon, "now the Old Bear wants them talking as well? No good will come of that, I'll warrant. And who's to say the bones wouldn't lie? Why should death make a man truthful, or even clever? The dead are likely dull fellows, full of tedious complaints-the ground's too cold, my gravestone should be larger, why does he get more worms than I do. . . .
~ George R.R. Martin
I am walking, he thought, exulting. Part of him knew that it was only a dream, but even the dream of walking was better than the truth of his bedchamber, walls and ceiling and door.
~ George R.R. Martin
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters; How well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
~ W. H. Auden
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
~ Thomas Jefferson
My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
~ Jack Kerouac
It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart.
~ Jack Kerouac
I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.
~ Jack Kerouac
When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.
~ Takayuki Ikkaku
There is no greater code for courtship than walking. Learning to keep in step; the opportunity to express little concerns -- alarm, caution, the touch on the elbow; the blood running in the veins; the sense of movement and shared goal; the sense of just being two amid the swirl; and above all the ability to talk expansively in the open air without the anxiety of each other's gaze and close scrutiny. Those who wish to find love should learn to walk.
~ Tarun J. Tejpal
It'll be when you first learn to walk that I get daily demonstrations of the asymmetry in our relationship. You'll be incessantly running off somewhere, and each time you walk into a door frame or scrape your knee, the pain feels like it's my own. It'll be like growing an errant limb, an extension of myself whose sensory nerves report pain just fine, but whose motor nerves don't convey my commands at all. It's so unfair: I'm going to give birth to an animated voodoo doll of myself.
~ Ted Chiang
You know when you walk around in your shoes too much and get a hole in the sole? The rubber is split - it's like your shoes are talking.
~ Ghostface Killah
Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.
~ Donald Barnhouse
A city that outdistances man's walking powers is a trap for man.
~ Arnold J. Toynbee
A man walking is never in balance, but always correcting for imbalance.
~ Gregory Bateson
Let me tell you a couple of things while we're walking. By the time we get to the café, if you think I'm a creep or a nutcase, just tell me, and I'll simply buy you a coffee and be on my way. But if you don't think I'm a creep or a nutcase, then we're going to have a very serious conversation that could take hours. Do you have dinner plans?
~ Neal Stephenson