Human Locomotion Quotes & Sayings

I like to think I'm very grounded. I'm very grounded in my family. I'm very grounded in my community. — Gerry Adams

There is this to be said for walking: it is the one method of human locomotion by which a man or woman proceeds erect, upright, proud and independent, not squatting on the haunches like a frog.
Little boys love machines. Grown-up mean and women like to walk. — Edward Abbey

I shall find the dark grow luminous, the void fruitful when I understand I have nothing, that the ringers in the tower have appointed for the hymen of the soul a passing bell. — W.B.Yeats

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life. — Mantak Chia

The mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe. — Terence McKenna

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken. — Edmund Burke

The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

She was a most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from story to story was a mystery beyond solution. A lady so decorous in herself, and so highly connected, was not to be suspected of dropping over the banisters or sliding down them, yet her extraordinary facility of locomotion suggested the wild idea. Another noticeable circumstance in Mrs. Sparsit was, that she was never hurried. She would shoot with consummate velocity from the roof to the hall, yet would be in full possession of her breath and dignity on the moment of her arrival there. Neither was she ever seen by human vision to go at a great pace. — Charles Dickens

The Bible is the greatest book of all times. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The communication with God is very important, because the communication is one of our greatest needs, and God is the most important one we need. — Marieta Maglas

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms. — Jose Ramos-Horta

My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really. — Christopher Lambert

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song. — Paul McCartney

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain ... you can feel it. It sets the mood. — Nayvadius Cash

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools ... — Martin Luther

The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century. — Theodor Adorno

I have impeached myself by resigning. — Richard M. Nixon