Quotes about walk
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“Home is everything you can walk to.”
Source: Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
“You better hope that I never see you walking down the street while I’m driving my car! (Tory)”
Source: Acheron
“As Rumi says, “We’re all just walking each other home.”
Source: Rising Strong
“What monstrosities would walk the streets were some people's faces as unfinished as their minds.”
Section 89
Reflections on the Human Condition (1973)
“No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.”
Source: Lullaby
"The Man in the Drawer", in Rembrandt's Hat (1973); cited from Selected Stories (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985) p. 225
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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Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir
Source: All Fall Down
“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
“I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.”
Source: I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You
“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.”
Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
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.
“When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.”
Source: Magic Bleeds
“When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth.”
Source: Dawn of the Dead
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
Source: I am an Emotional Creature
Source: Tiger Lily
Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking
"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.
“Perhaps
The truth depends on a walk around a lake”
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
“He didn’t want to spend the rest of his life looking like an extra from The Walking Dead.”
Source: The House of Hades
Source: Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
“I was a man before I was a king, and no true man walks away when a friend needs him.”
Source: Fall of Kings
“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken.”
Fairy Tales (1835)
Source: The Story of a Mother
Source: Magic Slays
“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)
Source: The Darkest Evening of the Year
Source: Night World, No. 2
“Everywhere is walking distance if you've got the time.”
Steven Wright Special (1985)
“We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.”
“in the street of the sky night walks scattering poems”
Source: Selected Poems
“When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty