Quotes about walking
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“Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking.”

Oprah Winfrey (1954) American businesswoman, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist

Funny

“Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Shelter from the Storm

Beauty

“She started walking again. "Are you saying you didn't even want to be with her? Not even just a little?"
He stopped. "How could I want to be with her when I want to be with you? I told you that before this whole thing started.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Night World, No. 1

“If you come, you better come in force because I will kill every single one of you. My hand won't shake, my aim won't falter. My face will be the last thing you'll see before you die." I jammed my knife into the table and walked out.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bleeds

“No, we don't walk away. But when we're holding on to something precious, we run. We run and run, fast as we can, and we don't stop running until we are out from under the shadow.”

Neil Cross (1969) British novelist and scriptwriter

“There is a Dutch word, uitwaaien, “to walk against the wind for pleasure.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

Source: The Signature of All Things

Pleasure

“If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across.”

Mercedes Lackey (1950) American novelist and short story writer

Way, Dance

“There's always a choice,' said Torak, and walked backward off the cliff.”

Michelle Paver (1960) English children's fiction writer

“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.”

Shirley Jackson book We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Source: We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Books, Home

“Curran looked back at me. "Why is it you always attract creeps?"

"You tell me." Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“If you added it up, without her there was nothing--but with her even the simplest of gestures of walking a bird dog in the desert, or selecting the ingredients for a meal for two rather than one took on an ineffable charm.

(from the novella,)”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: Legends of the Fall

Dogs, Bird

“In the spring of 1988, I returned to New Orleans, and as soon as I smelled the air, I knew I was home.
It was rich, almost sweet, like the scent of jasmine and roses around our old courtyard.
I walked the streets, savoring that long lost perfume.”

Anne Rice book Interview with the Vampire

Source: Interview with the Vampire

Home, Spring

“The Beast Lord walked out of the warehouse. The screen went dark.
My knight in furry armor.
Saiman opened his mouth. "This is why I didn't. Personally, I think your smile is inappropriate.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Slays

Smile, Thinking, Personality

“And he left. I watched him walk out – he didn’t say good-bye, he didn’t even look back. It scared me, how easy it was for him to do that.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

“Dreams, dreams. I walk them; I live them. I delude myself with them. It's a wonder I can spot reality anymore.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Dreams, Reality

“You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 31
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Context: Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

Shoe, Personality

“When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Love, World

“Taking a deep breathe, I made one of the hardest decisions of my life.
I walked away.”

Richelle Mead Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

Life, Decision

“The Poet is a kinsman in the clouds
Who scoffs at archers, loves a stormy day;
But on the ground, among the hooting crowds,
He cannot walk, his wings are in the way.”

Charles Baudelaire book Les Fleurs du mal

Le Poète est semblable au prince des nuées Qui hante la tempête et se rit de l’archer ; Exilé sur le sol au milieu des huées, Ses ailes de géant l’empêchent de marcher. "L’Albatros" [The Albatross] (translated by James McGowan, Oxford University Press, 1993) http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/L%E2%80%99Albatros Les fleurs du mal (Flowers of Evil) (1857) Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal

Love, Way

“He says we should take it easy and that maybe he overreacted a bit."

Dave said, "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“Some of our greatest historical and artistic treasures we place with curators in museums; others we take for walks.”

Roger A. Caras (1928–2001) American photographer

“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Source: Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other

“On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

“Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.”

Robert Henri (1865–1929) American painter

Happiness, Art

“My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

1910s, My November Guest (1915)

Love, Beauty, Autumn, Thinking

“Let us be honest: most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked around the house with a saintly expression.”

Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) Author, playwright, journalist, composer

Source: Beverley Nichols' Cats' A Z

Feeling, Cats, Housing

“i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

“But I think we were walking around like we were invincible. And maybe that's a bad way to live your life. Because you're not invincible. Nobody is. And maybe now that we've learned that, we'll be better.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

Life, Way, Thinking, Learning

“… whether he stayed or left, whether they walked the same path or not. They could live on opposite sides of the world, and she would still be his.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Mine Till Midnight

World

“May you walk a lighted path. May you fight for truth - your truth, not someone else's - and may you understand, above all things, that you are the most important concept, theory, and philosophy I have ever known.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics

Truth, Understanding, Light, Fight

“And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

“We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

Gloria Gaither (1942) American gospel songwriter, author & scholar

Way, Chance, Flying

“If you dont like me, Walk away, Matter of fact Run Away”

Virginia Euwer Wolff book Make Lemonade

Source: Make Lemonade

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Love, Peaceful, Cute, Romantic

“Wait!" he yelled.
I didn't turn around, I walked faster. Then I heard him slam his fist on the hood of his car. I almost stopped.
Maybe I would have if he'd followed me. But he didn't. He got in his car and he left, just like he said he would.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Cars, Waiting

“Declining from the public ways, walk in unfrequented paths.”

Pythagoras (-585–-495 BC) ancient Greek mathematician and philosopher

Symbol 5
The Symbols

Way

“Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

Life, Truth

“You will wake only if kissed by a young man who is truly your love, truly your destiny, one who would walk miles and face torturous tests to find you.”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Love, Kiss

“It’s okay,” said Alec. “I once walked in on you and Isabelle. I guess turnabout’s fair play.” He frowned. “Although you two were in my room at the time, so actually I think you still owe me.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Born to Endless Night

Thinking, Time

“Walk neither faster nor slower than your own soul. Because it is your soul that will teach you the usefulness of each step you take.”

Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra

Source: Manuscript Found in Accra

Soul

“Percy: "Hey, why do pegasi gallop as they fly, anyway?"

Blackjack: "Why do humans swing their arms as they walk? I dunno, boss. It just feels right.”

Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian

Variant: Why do you need to gallop while you fly?"
"Why do humans have to sway their arms while they walk? I dunno boss, but it just feels right.
Source: The Last Olympian

Feeling, Flying

“Know all the Questions, but not the Answers
Look for the Different, instead of the Same
Never Walk where there's room for Running
Don't do anything that can't be a Game”

Zilpha Keatley Snyder book The Changeling

Source: The Changeling

Game, Question

“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”

Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors

“I walked into my own book, seeking peace.
It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the corner and I bruised myself against my madness.”

Anaïs Nin book House of Incest

Source: House of Incest

Books, Peace, Dreams, Madness

“I keep a close watch on this heart of mine;
I keep my eyes wide open all the time.
I keep the ends out for the tie that binds.
Because you're mine, I walk the line.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

I Walk the Line
Song lyrics, Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar (1957)

Time, Heart

“I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Way, Search, Reality

“what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Moving On

“No wonder you and Jace like each other so much. You're both crazy walking arsenals.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“This is not a good time, Miss Implant." Roman felt Jean-Luc jabbing him in the back with his walking stick. "Uh, Porky. No, I mean--" Damn, what the hell was her name?”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: How to Marry a Millionaire Vampire

Hell, Time

“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”

Gilles Deleuze (1925–1995) French philosopher

“I think only once in your life do you find someone that you say, "Hey, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my time on this earth with." And if you miss it, or walk away from it, or even maybe, blink - it's gone.”

Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer

Source: If You Come Softly

Life, Thinking, Time, Personality

“Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.”

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: Wanderlust: A History of Walking

Time, Reading

“Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: One Hundred Names

Smile, Cry

“The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things, she decided, wondering how many writers and philosophers had said this before her, the trivial pleasures like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.”

Barbara Pym book Less than Angels

Less than Angels (1955), chapter 9

Life, Pleasure, Sadness, Home

“The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Peace, Beauty, Flowers, Beauty

“I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to.”
I closed my eyes and whispered, “I’ll meet you halfway.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Shifts

“I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, 'The whole time.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

Time, Night

“She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

World, Personality

“There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Thinking, Patience

“Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.”

Cornelia Funke (1958) author

World, Night

“I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk… I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well.”

Candace Bushnell (1958) American author

God, Lovers, Drink, Thinking

“When this is over… we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.”

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

Sea

“Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.”

Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933) British author

Source: Her Own Rules

Women, Thinking, Light

“I remember that I'm invisible and walk softly so as not awake the sleeping ones. Sometimes it is best not to awaken them; there are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

World, Sleep

“So that's us: processed corn, walking.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.”

Zelda Fitzgerald book Save Me the Waltz

Source: Save Me the Waltz

Support, Flying

“I do not understand how you humans can walk in shoes that are that tall.”
“Its my motto,” said Isabelle, with a sultry smile. “Nothing less than seven inches.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Smile, Shoe, Understanding

“Crow walked toward her, arms outstretched like a man in a dream, which he was, in a way. Sometimes a dream is enough.”

Cinda Williams Chima (1952) Novelist

Source: The Crimson Crown

Dreams, Way

“He smiled at two people walking by: a tall, good-looking boy with a streak of white in his dark hair and a brunette girl whose eyes were shaded by sunglasses. They ignored him. But”

Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight

Source: Lady Midnight

People, Smile, Girl, Boy

“You just walk over there and into the office and say, 'Hey, be my prom date,'" he said. "It's that simple.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

“He walked on water. Perhaps. But could he have *swum* on land? In matching knickers and dark glasses? With his Fountain in a Love-in-Tokyo? In pointy shoes and a puff? Would he have had the imagination?”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Love, Shoe, Imagination, Water

“… I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. That you were the center of everything I did and felt and thought.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

World

“Dude! Put a bell on. You don't walk up on a brother like that and scare the crap out of him. (Nick)
Sorry. Didn't realize you scared like a little girl. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Invincible

Girl

“I don't mind walking. I always feel so sorry for women who don't like to walk; they miss so much--so many rare little glimpses of life; and we women learn so little of life on the whole.”

Kate Chopin book The Awakening

Source: The Awakening

Life, Women, Feeling, Learning

“She walked on, comforted by the surf, by the one perpetual moment of beach-time, the now-and-always of it.”

William Gibson (1948) American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder of the cyberpunk subgenre

Time

“I stand up and walk towards her because my days of waiting for more are over. If I want more, I need to go and get it, demand it, take hold of it with all my might, and do the best I can with it.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Waiting

“Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

“Why didn't I buy a new phone earlier? Why don't I always walk around with a spare phone? It should be the law, like having a spare tire.”

Sophie Kinsella book I've Got Your Number

Source: I've Got Your Number

Law

“I used to be ashamed
And now I am proud.
The world once was black
And now it is bright.
I used to walk head bent
And now I stand up tall.
I used to have dreams
But now I have hope.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Perfect

World, Dreams, Hope

“I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Source: Poems

“Macey couldn't decide whether to be intrigued that Hale was walking around with a state-of-the-art covert communications device or be jealous because she'd been caught without one of her own.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story

Art, Communication

“There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

Source: Western Star

“Looks like a bite mark. What have you been doing all day, anyway?"
"Nothing. I went walking in the park. Tried to clear my head."
"And ran into a vampire?"
"What? No! I fell."
"On your neck?”

Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

Jace and Alec, pg. 73-74
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”

Joan Didion (1934) American writer

“I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Soul, Cry

“I thought, There goes my lord, whom I was born to follow. I have found a King.
And, I said to myself, looking after him as he walked away, I will have him, if I die for it.”

Mary Renault book The Persian Boy

Source: The Persian Boy

“If you drive a car, I'll tax the street;
if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Cars

“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

Source: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Nature, Weather

“I walk away from him. It's enormously pleasing to me, this walking away. It's like being able to make people appear and vanish, at will.”

Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

People, Appearance

“To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Winter Garden

Love, Life

“Because,” he said quietly as she stood up, “until you walked into it, this was an ordinary garden.”

Puzzled, Elizabeth tipped her head. “What is it now?”

“Heaven.”

Judith McNaught (1944) American writer

Source: Almost Heaven

“Yeah, my bad," Leo muttered. "I should've crashed on one of the other islands. Oh, wait-there aren't any!"
She [Calypso] snarled and kept walking along the edge of the water.”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades

Water, Waiting

“The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.”

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

Variant: The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Personality

“It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Life, Way, Time

“If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.”

L. Frank Baum book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”

Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) English novelist

God, Religion

“As I walk back to the school on my own, I realise I'm crying. So I go back to the stories I've read about the five and I try to make sense of their lives because in making sense of theirs, I may understand mine.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

School, Understanding, Sense, Reading

“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic… but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Feeling

“Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Heart

“You can use a spear for a walking stick, but it will not change its nature.”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

Variant: He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.
Source: The Song of Achilles

Nature, Change

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