Quotes about walk
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Rick Riordan photo
Rebecca Solnit photo

“Home is everything you can walk to.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics

Rick Riordan photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Lauren Child photo
Karen Marie Moning photo
Ayn Rand photo
D.J. MacHale photo
Barbara Kingsolver photo
Brené Brown photo

“As Rumi says, “We’re all just walking each other home.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Rising Strong

Eric Hoffer photo

“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

Section 89
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)

Stephen Chbosky photo
Chuck Palahniuk photo

“No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.”

Source: Lullaby

Marya Hornbacher photo
Bernard Malamud photo

“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.”

Bernard Malamud (1914–1986) American author

"The Man in the Drawer", in Rembrandt's Hat (1973); cited from Selected Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) p. 225

Cassandra Clare photo
Markus Zusak photo
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich photo
John Muir photo

“I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

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Last line of the documentary film " John Muir in the New World http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/john-muir-in-the-new-world/watch-the-full-documentary-film/1823/" (American Masters), produced, directed, and written by Catherine Tatge.
John of the Mountains, 1938
Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

Jodi Picoult photo
Nicholas Sparks photo
Stephen King photo

“It's a long walk back to Eden, sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.”

Variant: It's a long way back to Eden, Sweetheart, so don't sweat the small stuff.
Source: Insomnia

Mary E. Pearson photo
Richelle Mead photo
Sue Monk Kidd photo
Martin Luther King, Jr. photo

“We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”

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

1960s, The Quest for Peace and Justice (1964)
Context: There is a sort of poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.

Tracy Chevalier photo

“When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

Groucho Marx photo
Brian Selznick photo
John Steinbeck photo
George A. Romero photo

“When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”

George A. Romero (1940–2017) American-Canadian film director, film producer, screenwriter and editor

Source: Dawn of the Dead

Laurie Halse Anderson photo
Albert Einstein photo

“On the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 70th birthday. "Generations to come, it may well be, will scarce believe that such a man as this one ever in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth.”

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

Variant: Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
Source: On Peace

Jenny Han photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Henry David Thoreau photo
Stephen Chbosky photo
Michael Ondaatje photo
Augusten Burroughs photo
Haruki Murakami photo
Eve Ensler photo

“I want to touch you in real time
not find you on YouTube,
I want to walk next to you in the mountains
not friend you on Facebook.”

Eve Ensler (1953) American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

Source: I am an Emotional Creature

Brian Andreas photo
Suzanne Collins photo
Rebecca Solnit photo

“A labyrinth is a symbolic journey… but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Flannery O’Connor photo
Cecelia Ahern photo

“Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies.”

Kathy Acker (1947–1997) American novelist, playwright, essayist, and poet

"On Delany the Magician", a foreword to Trouble on Triton (1996) by Samuel R. Delany, and reprinted in Acker's collection Bodies of Work (1996)
Source: Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia
Context: Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.

John Keats photo

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

To Fanny Brawne (July 25, 1819)
Letters (1817–1820)

Maya Angelou photo

“I’ve got a magic charm
That I keep up my sleeve,
I can walk the ocean floor
And never have to breathe.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Source: Life Doesn't Frighten Me

Wallace Stevens photo

“Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake”

Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake,A composing as the body tires, a stop
To see hepatica, a stop to watch
A definition growing certain andA wait within that certainty, a rest
In the swags of pine-trees bordering the lake.
Perhaps there are times of inherent excellence</p

Arthur Conan Doyle photo
Nora Roberts photo
Laurell K. Hamilton photo
Nathan Englander photo
Richelle Mead photo
Nelson Algren photo
Orison Swett Marden photo
Rick Riordan photo
Markus Zusak photo
Richard Rohr photo

“When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.”

Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest

Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

Sylvia Plath photo

“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”

David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy

Source: Fall of Kings

Hans Christian Andersen photo

“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”

Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Story of a Mother

David Nicholls photo

“Dont run before you can walk”

Source: One Day

Erich Fromm photo
James Frey photo
Nicholas Sparks photo

“It was…the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make.
In every way, a walk to remember.”

Landon Carter, Chapter 13, p. 237
Source: 1990s, A Walk to Remember (1999)

Roberto Bolaño photo
Steven Wright photo

“Everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Steven Wright Special (1985)

Rick Riordan photo
Brian Andreas photo
Lee Child photo
Anthony Doerr photo
Lily Tomlin photo
Cecelia Ahern photo
Scott Westerfeld photo
E.E. Cummings photo

“in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Source: Selected Poems

Henry David Thoreau photo
Jenny Han photo

“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Cassandra Clare photo