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Quotes About Walking

Sorvalh stopped walking and stood calmly at the frontier of the colony of Deliverance.
~ John Scalzi
Until recent centuries, almost all human beings walked or ran a considerable distance every day, and this has perhaps been the primary time for meditation. To awaken our sense of who we are, it's important, whenever possible, to get out and walk every day—and also to turn that simple act of ambulation into the sublime experience of walking meditation.
~ Unknown
What kind of second-rate grief is it that permits them to walk?
~ John Updike
and then he sees the eyes sort of find a voice and what he hears is like a howl, first a howling from one eye and then a scattered howling from lots of eyes and then the huge howl becomes one with the flames rising up and it disappears into the darkness and the voices in the eyes rise up and are smoke that you can't see and he keeps walking and now it's so cold that he has to go home ...
~ Unknown
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.
~ Roger Bannister
I come from a family that loves to eat, not exercise. Being fat made even walking hard.
~ Joe Bastianich
If I hadn't stopped to thank the ghoul, I might not be covered in rotting, slimy, dead guy. I shook my head ruefully and continued walking. No good deed goes unpunished.
~ Unknown
She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.
~ George R. R. Martin
Mr. Knightley to be no longer coming there for his evening comfort! - No longer walking in at all hours, as if ever willing to change his own home for their's! - How was it to be endured?
~ Jane Austen, Emma
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
~ Erich Fromm
I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.
~ Margaret Forster
If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.
~ Margaret Thatcher
I find a lot of inspiration in street style and watching women walk, the way they wear things and what they're wearing.
~ Maria Sharapova
There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I wear a pedometer, aiming for five miles a day - don't be too impressed; that includes walking around my house and food shopping.
~ Elinor Lipman
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone.
~ Daphne du Maurier
if you're walking with Jesus and you invite someone to walk with you, there is a good chance they'll get to know Jesus somewhere along the way.
~ Mark Batterson
Her secrets to longevity: Do not be jealous or angry, take walks, do not stress about life, and live in gratitude. She is a wealthy woman, rich in love, meaning, and purpose. And she has no ailments except a slow thyroid and a little arthritis.
~ Mark Hyman
I jump from a building As if I were falling asleep, The wind like a pillow Slowing me down, Slowing me down As if I were dreaming. Surrounded by air, I come to a stop, And stand like a tourist Watching the pigeons. People in offices, Wanting to save me, Open their mouths. 'Throw me a stone,' I yell, Wanting to fall. But nobody listens. They throw me a rope. And now I am walking, Taking to you, Talking to you As if I were dreaming I were alive.
~ Mark Strand
I don't have a car."His eyes sliced into mine. "I walked here, " I explained. "I'm on foot.""Angel, " he said in a way that sounded like he sincerely hoped I was joking.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick, Silence
Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
~ Steven Wright
Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.
~ Mark Waid
Before Ernest could start walking back the cat, Melrose put in, "But isn't it rather we who have come here, Mrs. Attaboy?" At her uncomprehending look, he plowed on. "It is their country." "What? Africa?" "If Africa were a country, the answer would be yes.
~ Martha Grimes
Just a regular projectile, not an explosive one, so most of my back was still there. I just didn't feel like walking around leaking in front of humans right now.
~ Martha Wells