#bicycle

That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public. ↗

— Joseph C. Lincoln

#bicycle #circulation #days #everyone #fairly

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#bicycle #novelists #poets #should #surely

Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling. ↗

— Claude Pepper

#fall #life #like #off #riding

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life. ↗

— Susan Vreeland

#cycling #philosophy #faith

Let me tell you what I think of bicycling. I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance. I stand and rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a wheel…the picture of free, untrammeled womanhood. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#emancipation #women #freedom

My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library. ↗

— Peter Golkin

#bicycles #bike #bikes #conservation #favorite

I’ve been washing stairs my whole life. One day after the other. Since I was five years old. I’ve never complained. Shame on you. I’m embarrassed to have a son like you…can’t even look after his own bicycle. You just wait until your dad comes home. Then you’ll be in trouble, I can tell you that much.” Poul-Erik’s Mother The Informer ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#mothers #scandinavian-mysteries #home

To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm? ↗

— Angela Carter

#reason #science #superstition #science

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars. ↗

— Christiane Amanpour

#ago #arrived #bicycle #cnn #dollars

It's been a long time since I've written old-fashioned sword and sorcery; I'm hoping it's like riding a bicycle. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#bicycle #hoping #i #like #long