#bicycle

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias. ↗

— Lois Capps

#children #continue #fast-food #into #invite

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#fish #like #man #without #woman

So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it is the point and not the problem; in which the project is to learn how not to ride the bicycle, how not to understand the poem. Or to put it the other way round, this would be a life in which getting it – the will to get it, the ambition to get it – was the problem; in which wanting to be an accomplice didn’t take precedence over making up one’s mind. ↗

— Adam Phillips

#getting-it #life

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

I used to bicycle to work across the George Washington Bridge, but my wife told me it wasn't professional. ↗

— Mehmet Oz

#bicycle #bridge #george #george washington #i

I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing. ↗

— Major Taylor

#benefit #bicycle #champions #discourage #entertained

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world. ↗

— Major Taylor

#bicycle #degree #i #ideals #instilled

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

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