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Quotes About Movement

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key.
~ Edward Abbey
There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life.
~ Edward Abbey
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
~ Edward Abbey
Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.
~ Edward Abbey
Yes sir, yes madam, I entreat you, get out of those motorized wheelchairs, get off your foam rubber backsides, stand up straight like men! like women! like human beings! and walk-walk-WALK upon our sweet and blessed land!
~ Edward Abbey
Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
~ Edward Albee
I dance like the wind.
~ Edward Albee
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. the idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
~ Edward Bellamy
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.
~ Edward Bellamy
You are now free to move about the country.
~ Anonymous
Turn right, turn left, repeat as necessary.
~ Anonymous
Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp.
~ Anonymous
Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method.
~ Anonymous
The entire land sets out to work,All beasts browse on their herbs;Trees, herbs are sprouting,Birds fly from their nests…Ships fare north, fare south as well,Roads lie open when you rise;The fish in the river dart before you,Your rays are in the midst of the sea.
~ Anonymous
No matter how far in or out of the closet you are, you still have a next step.
~ Anonymous
If your dog is fat, you're not getting enough exercise.
~ Anonymous
Aerobics: a series of strenuous exercises which help convert fats, sugars, and starches into aches, pains, and cramps.
~ Anonymous
Slide, Kelly, Slide
~ Anonymous
Dance is a delicate balance between perfection and beauty.
~ Anonymous
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
~ Anonymous
Skip like the wind!
~ Anonymous
If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
~ Anonymous
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters.
~ Anonymous
If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise?
~ Anonymous