“At least he never walked.”
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
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Haruki Murakami655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
“Jesus never walked on water, but he was always on thin ice.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
Hans Christian Andersen book The Story of a Mother
Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Story of a Mother
Elliott Smith (1969–2003) American singer-songwriter
Georgia, Georgia.
Lyrics, New Moon (posthumous, 2007)
“I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Likely spurious quote, UNVERIFIED ATTRIBUTE - Quoted in The Lexington Observer & Reporter (16 June 1864)
1860s
Variant: I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
The William Saroyan Reader (1958)
Context: The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy — the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops.
“If you never stepped on anybody's toes, you never been for a walk.”
Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer
Source: Prodigal Summer
Robert Cormier book Beyond the Chocolate War
Source: Beyond the Chocolate War (1985), p. 265
Robert A. Heinlein book Tunnel in the Sky
Source: Tunnel in the Sky (1955), Chapter 2, “The Fifth Way” (p. 42)