Quotes About Walking

concentrating on the sodden lake of the heart, and its sharp depths / ... I am balanced on one foot, assuming the next step is groundward ('Walking')

The swiftest traveler is he that goes afoot.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.

Bipedal movement is the skill of controlled falling, said Square. If it weren't so commonplace, it would seem miraculous - like much out here, to be truthful.

Everything we do is falling. Even walking is a kind of controlled falling. But that's not the same as failing.

Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.

The culture of New York is just impossible to replicate. It's such an incredible feeling to be walking on the streets of New York. You can literally find everything you need in a five block radius oftentimes.

In New York, especially, so much of your life is spent on the streets. You don't always want to be driving around in an SUV with a security guard. You want to be able to walk to a restaurant; you want to go and do things.

Pokemon Go, which involves trying to 'catch' Pikachu or Squirtle or other creatures with your smartphone, is an inherently social experience. You need to be walking around - on the streets, in public places - to catch the Pokemon.

Anyone who's ever been around an emergency in Manhattan realizes that there are plainclothes officers on these streets walking past us more than we ever realize.

As a U.S. History major, there is something very cool about being in cities, and walking the streets of Philadelphia or Boston or New York and seeing historical sites.

and the relief of being able to walk around without having to search for a parking place added to the pleasure of strolling

I was apprehensive for my being conspicuous: Ignacio was right—no gringos visible, either in cars or walking.

Nos contamos historias de fantasmas mientras caminábamos. Fue Steve quien habló la mayor parte del tiempo, ya que él sabe mucho más que yo al respecto. Estaba en plena forma. A veces olvida los finales de las historias, o confunde los nombres, pero aquella noche no. ¡Aquello era mejor que estar con Stephen King!

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust.

I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She said lots of them went to Ward 34 on the top floor. She said she thought that was a silly place to put people with bad bones who had such trouble walking and climbing stairs.

Cristo, como Adán, también nació sin pecado. Pero, a diferencia de Adán, aprendió a caminar ante su Padre con gozo y completa obediencia.

From then on and for the rest of his life, Paddy's motto was Solvitur ambulando: "When in doubt, walk.

The best thing for me is, when I'm not working, is to be at home and to have a script or two scripts is better, and to be just walking around the house and just thinking about the lines.

Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like being paralyzed. It's sickness. The cure calls for a monumental effort to stand up and start walking somewhere, anywhere. But that takes some doing.

The only thing that mattered was the honor and joy of walking with God.

But if I hope to understand in order to accept things - the act of surrender will never happen. I must take the plunge all at once, a plunge that includes comprehension and especially incomprehension. And who am I to dare to think? What I have to do is surrender. How is it done? I know however that only by walking do you know how to walk and - miracle - find yourself walking.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

It was interesting how you could say things when you where walking that you might not otherwise have said with the pressure of eye contact across a table.