464 Quotes About Walking


  • Author Sarah Vowell
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    I love walking. Walking might be my favorite pastime. It’s one of the reasons I moved to the pedestrian paradise that is NYC. It’s hiking that I try to avoid.

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  • Author Maureen Johnson
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    David had a way of walking - a way that suggested that he belonged anywhere he went. In this, he had his father's manner, which was gross and horrific. But there was something else, something of the rake in a casino movie, who has come in to knock the place over, or an entertainer who might at any point somersault into the center of the room.Or maybe he was just walking in and her brain chemistry was telling her stories.

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  • Author Jacqueline Winspear
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    After the war, however, in the early 1920s, the government had launched a series of advertisements aimed at getting the population out into the fresh air, encouraging people to go hill walking, which some master of the slogan had abbreviated to hiking.

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  • Author Valentin Rasputin
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    Andrei walked a lot: this was the best and most pleasant state for him--to be walking, to move no matter where. Thoughts are simpler when you walk, and you can amuse them with what you see along the way

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  • Author Bill McKibben
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    On foot you arrive late or early, without excuse, and settle into whatever conversation in under way. It took you a while to get there, so you're obviously going to stay awhile. It feels like visiting in an older sense of the word, and you bring with you the news of the road, not the news you heard on All Things Considered.

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  • Author Tony Warrick
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    Many of us would find it difficult to cross a river by walking, but if your desire to cross that river is strong enough and you cannot walk, you must learn to swim. In other words, you must see challenges as opportunities for personal and spiritual growth. Greatness is in you!

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