#bicycle

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

Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#begin #bicycles #brothers #business #caves

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 bicycle has transformed my experience of London. ↗

— Iain Glen

#experience #london #transformed

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#bicycle #despair #every #every time #future

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle. ↗

— Dean Kamen

#car #city #fish #like #needs

Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing. If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of evry part of your life. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#bicycle #improve #learn #life #like

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward. ↗

— George Weah

#continual #education #forward #go #like

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

— Gloria Steinem

#fish #like #man #without #woman