Bicycle Quotes

“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

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them.”
― Ernest Hemingway, By-Line: Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades

“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

“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, Clara and Mr. Tiffany

“There is beauty in silence and there is silence in beauty and you can find both in a bicycle!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sorry, old girl," I said to [my bicycle] Gladys in the gray dishwater light of early morning, "but I have to leave you at home."

I could see that she was disappointed, even though she managed to put on a brave face.

"I need you to stay here as a decoy," I whispered. "When they see you leaning against the greenhouse, they'll think I'm still in bed."

Gladys brightened considerably at the thought of a conspiracy. [...]

At the corner of the garden, I turned, and mouthed the words, "Don't do anything I wouldn't do," and Gladys signaled that she wouldn't.

I was off like a shot.”
― Alan Bradley, A Red Herring Without Mustard

“Bicycle means simplicity and simplicity means happiness!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don’t give up, you will never end up failing!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Daily Drive 365

“Every time you miss your childhood, ride on a bicycle!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As one does a bear riding a bicycle. One sees it so rarely.
(Spoken by Volger, on Deryn)”
― Scott Westerfeld

“I had a dream about you. You were on a bike going 70 miles an hour, I could see you approaching my car in the mirror. You were trying to say something so, I jumped on the brakes as hard as I could, I guess I forgot I had tied your bike on my bumper.”
― Georgia Saratsioti, Dreaming is for lovers

“But I pushed and pulled in vain, the wheels would not turn. It was as though the brakes were jammed, and heaven knows they were not, for my bicycle had no brakes. And suddenly overcome by a great weariness, in spite of the dying day when I always felt most alive, I threw the bicycle back in the bush and lay down on the ground, on the grass, careless of the dew, I never feared the dew.”
― Samuel Beckett, Molloy

“Avec un vélo, l'homme peut partager les bienfaits d'une conquête technique sans prétendre régenter les horaires, l'espace ou l'énergie d'autrui. Un cycliste est maître de sa propre mobilité sans empiéter sur celle des autres. Ce nouvel outil ne crée que des besoins qu'il peut satisfaire, au lieu que chaque accroissement de l'accélération produit par des véhicules à moteur crée de nouvelles exigences de temps et d'espace.”
― Ivan Illich, Energy and Equity

“Reading a book is the most dangerous thing you can do on a bicycle.”
― Carolyn Watson Dubisch, The Hand Turkey Book

“Some people put more thought into what kind of car to buy than what kind of mate to marry. I think that's foolish, because when I'm not duck farming, I'm a bicycle salesman. Well, I actually only have one bicycle to sell, and I stole it, which is what makes it so profitable.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“A bicycle rode itself to my house, where I gave it swimming lessons at 15 bucks an hour. So it paid me 37 cents, before telling me I should write a book on Duck Farming.”
― Jarod Kintz, BearPaw Duck And Meme Farm presents: Two Ducks Brawling Is A Pre-Pillow Fight

“I once saw a moat bicycling around a castle. It was being chased by a soggy giraffe that had a tornado for a neck. I was on the overlooking grassy hill, selling lasagna-free duck soup by the slice to tourists from Nebraska.”
― Jarod Kintz, Music is fluid, and my saxophone overflows when my ducks slosh in the sounds I make in elevators.

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Does my farming technique have enough fish tank to support a powdered-water lifestyle? This is something I think about while harvesting my grain on bicycle.”
― Jarod Kintz, Eggs, they’re not just for breakfast

“My bike in one of those old-fashioned cruisers, with a mint-green body.”
― Kara Thomas, The Cheerleaders

“Five Things To Do This Summer

-Buy a pair of Hoka's
-Purchase a Fitness Tracker
-Ride a Bicycle
-Take a Yoga Class
-Run half a mile day”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“A bicycle shortage occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic.”
― Steven Magee

“Eclatant de rire, Sarah enfourcha la bicyclette, et resta immobile.
– Et maintenant ? demanda-t-elle.
Incrédule, Jesse contempla les longues jambes de la jeune femme et poussa un soupir.
– Pose un pied après l'autre sur les pédales, et avance.
Docile, Sarah obéit. La bicyclette grinça, fit un bond en avant, puis vacilla, et Sarah tomba sur l'herbe, riant aux larmes.
– Recommence ! cria Jesse.
Et elle recommença. Chaque fois, elle avançait un petit peu plus, mais elle perdait l'équilibre dès qu'elle tentait de synchroniser ses mouvements. Dieu que c'était drôle ! Sarah ne s'était jamais tant amusée de sa vie. Elle riait tant qu'il lui était parfois difficile de se remettre en selle.
Et puis, tout d'un coup, elle ne tomba plus. Etonnée, elle retint son rire et continua à pédaler à toute vitesse. Elle dévala le sentier qui menait à la route, et s'engagea sur le chemin. Comment faisait-on pour s'arrêter ?”
― Quinn Wilder, Outlaw Heart

“Riding a bike through all this is like navigating the collective neural pathways of some vast global mind. It really is a trip inside the collective psyche of a compacted group of people.”
― David Byrne, Bicycle Diaries

“Walk, before you learn how to ride a bicycle ”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Dealing with misguided intellectuals is like trying to teach a fish to ride a bicycle!”
― Dipti Dhakul

“When we see a bicycle in the city, we rejoice as if we saw nature itself; when we see a bicycle in nature, we rejoice as if we saw two great friends!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“ইংরেজি উচ্চারণ বেশ অদ্ভুত! Cycle উচ্চারণ সাইকেল কিন্তু Bicycle উচ্চারণ বাইসাইকেল নয়, বাইসিকল!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque

“English pronunciation is quite strange! Cycle is pronounced sʌɪkl, but Bicycle is not pronounced bʌɪsʌɪkl, it is bʌɪsɪkl!”
― Md. Ziaul Haque