Quotes about riding
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“I thought you might need a ride.'

'The headmaster's office called me a car.'

He shrugged, indifferent but amused. 'And here I am in a submarine.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

Cars, Indifference

“It's funny how different people are. If I'd been this kid and someone was snarling "Ordering a pizza?" at me, without even thinking, I would have snarled back "Yeah. You want pepperoni?"
-Maximum Ride”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

People, Thinking

“If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Variant: If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.
Source: Song of Solomon (1977)

“And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Happiness

“I felt the need to clarify we were there for the self defense class, in case he also taught about dog breeding or riding the high seas.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Dogs, Sea

“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.”

Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist

Sudden Death (1983)
Variant: "If the World Made Sense, Men Would Ride Sidesaddle" was the title of a 1993 one-man comedy by Ed Navis, performed at Wings Theatre, New York.
Variant: If the world were a logical place, then men would ride side-saddle.

Men, World, For Men

“His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Ira Levinson speaking about his father, Chapter 1 Ira, p. 2
Variant: we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Life

“Don't worry chief,"said foaly,"It's like riding a unicorn, you never forget.”

Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl

Variant: It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.
Source: Artemis Fowl

Forgetting

“It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Life, Past, Horse

“The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Children, Confidence, Horse

“You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.”

Thomas Hardy book A Pair of Blue Eyes

Source: A Pair of Blue Eyes

Kiss

“The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.”

Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood

Source: Under Milk Wood

Lie, Sea

“I'd learn that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there. So I pulled that sign off the green bike - ENJOY YOUR RIDE! - and went inside to take the first step toward doing just that.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Learning

“We were quiet on the car ride home. I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to take the sad song and make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Sadness, Cars, Home

“Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

“In short, over the last ten years the Negro decided to straighten his back up, realizing that a man cannot ride your back unless it is bent.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)

“Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.”

Judith Guest Ordinary People

Source: Ordinary People

Thinking, Time, Training

“Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of solitaire. It is a grand passion. It seizes a person whole and once it has done so, he/she will have to accept that his life will be radically changed.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Life, Game, Passion, Change

“Where did you learn to ride anyway? Disasters-R-Us? (Tory)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

Learning

“Carlos Ramirez: Everyone else who lets me ride on their dinosaur calls me Carlos.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: The Dresden Files, Dead Beat (2005), Chapter 41
Source: White Night

“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”

Ken Kesey book Kesey's Garage Sale

Source: Kesey's Garage Sale

World

“It all counts,' Adam said again. 'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.-pg 325 Along for the Ride”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Time

“Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Girl

“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself.
I'm the only one I would put through this.
Wheels and wings,
The ride is everything.
I'm all I've got.
I'm all I can take.
Another day has destroyed a part of me.
So far so good.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

Parting, Personality

“You can't ride two horses with one behind.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Horse

“If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Horse

“Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.”

Woody Guthrie (1912–1967) American singer-songwriter and folk musician

Life, Change, Dead

“Zsadist: I didn't make up the rules of this scenario
Wrath: You'll die if you go by yourself.
Zsadist: Well… I'm kind of ready to get off the ride.
Phury felt his skin get tight all over.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

“I thought of that while riding my bicycle.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“I will ride my luck on occasion, but I like to pick the occasion.”

Rex Stout book Might as Well Be Dead

Source: Might as Well Be Dead

“My invite must have gotten lost in the mail," she said venomously. "But I don't mind crashing this party.

-Maximum Ride talking to Max II”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“It’s life. You don’t figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.”

Rebecca Wells book Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Source: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Life, Motivational, Back To Work

“You destroy buildings, fight monsters openly in the streets of the city, work with the police, show up in newspapers, advertise in the phone book, and ride zombie dinosaurs down Michigan Avenue, and think that you work in the shadows? Be reasonable.”

Jim Butcher book Skin Game

Source: Skin Game

Books, Thinking, Fight

“I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'magain.
I always will be with this man.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Feeling

“You can’t blame me,” Ascanio said. “Anybody in my place would be concerned. You don’t even have a proper horse. You’re riding a mutant equine of unknown origin.”
“Don’t disrespect my donkey”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Horse

“Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils."
Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Battle for Skandia

Way, Horse, Parting

“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?"
"Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Game, Sleep, Study

“I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: The Year of Pleasures

“If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of solitude and leave you by the side of the road with your truth and nothing else.”

Thomas Ligotti (1953) American horror author

Source: The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Life, Truth, Solitude

“I'll ride my bike all the stinkin' way to school for the rest of eternity if it means being with her.

-Bryce”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

School, Way

“Fine. Everybody wears seatbelts. No radio. No distractions.” Ben shot Hi a stern look. “No running commentary.” “Your loss,” Hi said. “To the pimp ride!”

Kathy Reichs book Seizure

Source: Seizure

Loss

“See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

World

“Yay!' he said. 'Now we can eat peanut butter sandwiches and ride fish ponies! We can fight monsters and see Annabeth and make things go BOOM!”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Fish, Fight

“Well, we can ride together for a while longer. The highway south is farther along this way. I'll be glad of some cheerful company."

"First time anyone's said that about me," Halt replied.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Lost Stories

Way, Time

“Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

The Figure a Poem Makes (1939)
Context: Originality and initiative are what I ask for my country. For myself the originality need be no more than the freshness of a poem run in the way I have described: from delight to wisdom. The figure is the same as for love. Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting. A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being. Its most precious quality will remain its having run itself and carried away the poet with it. Read it a hundred times: it will forever keep its freshness as a petal keeps its fragrance. It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went.

“We'd be fools not to ride this strange torpedo all the way out to the end.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Fools, Way

“Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Hurt

“But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in triumph on the back of a devil, is one of the poorest.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

Source: The Lost Princess: A Double Story

Angels, Victory

“When I got across, I looked back and saw Tyson giving Grover a piggyback ride (or was it a goatyback ride?).”

Rick Riordan book The Battle of the Labyrinth

Source: The Battle of the Labyrinth

“Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

“A man can't ride your back unless it's bent”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Variant: A man can't ride your back unless it's bent.

“Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going”

Tom Robbins Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

Hell, Animals

“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

“Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.”

Alice Hoffman book The Ice Queen

Source: The Ice Queen

Cry, Forgetting

“No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I’d let him ride me anywhere.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Source: Outlander

Feeling, Horse

“If you're not getting hurt, you're not riding hard enough.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Hurt

“I was heading off to my new world. But I was taking a part of my past, and the future, along with me for the ride.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

World, Past, Future, Parting

“Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

Feeling, Time

“Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

As quoted in The Money Adventure (1998) by Egbert Sukop, p. 128

People

“He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery,
And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

Art, Learning

“There’s no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Fight

“…he murmured. “Of course, you’re my favorite ride.”
“Aw, that’s sweet, baby. And you’re my favorite joystick.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Baby

“Butterflies and zebras
And moonbeams and fairy tales
That's all she ever thinks about
Riding with the wind.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

Thinking

“Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement.
"Red Riding Hood didn´t know what the hell she was missing”

Lora Leigh (1965) American writer

Source: Jacob's Faith

Hell, Wolf

“Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

Wolf

“Idiots, Halt muttered. If we were here to cause trouble, we could simply ride them both down”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Kings of Clonmel

“I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

“It has been my experience that most human stories are circular rather than linear. Regardless of the path we choose, we somehow end up where we commenced - in part, I suspect, because the child who lives in us goes along for the ride.”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Glass Rainbow

Parting

“Hmm…” Jason snapped his fingers. “I can call a friend for a ride.”
Percy raised his eyebrows. “Oh, yeah? Me too. Let's see whose friend gets here first.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

“Jason scratched his head. "You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, ‘festus’ means ‘happy’? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Variant: You named him Fetus? You know in Latin Fetus means happy? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?
Source: The Lost Hero

Happiness, World

“Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.”

Chris Crutcher (1946) American children's writer

Source: Stotan!

Life, Pain, Feeling, Joy

“There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.”

David Gemmell book Dark Moon

Source: Dark Moon

Fear, Understanding

“Remember, this thing is small. It's not like the wolfships. It'll ride over the waves, not crash through them. So we're safe as houses."
He wasn't sure about the last two statements, but they seemed logical to him.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: The Icebound Land

Housing

“There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Oh My Goth

Life, People, Tear, Baby

“I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Forgetting

“Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone?
She'd found it easy, being pretty
To hitch a ride into the city.”

Roald Dahl book Revolting Rhymes

Source: Revolting Rhymes

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and can coast down them. … Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motorcar only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

[By-Line, Ernest Hemingway: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades by Ernest Hemingway, White, William, 1967, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 364]
Source: By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

Learning, Country