Bicycle Quotes

282 Bicycle quotes by 214 unique authors

When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law… — Boris Johnson
In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those… — Guy Verhofstadt
I live on a bicycle...I live in central London, probably 90 percent of my travel is done on a bicycle. I love bicycles. — Guy Ritchie
[Cycling] is easily the quickest way around central London, faster than bus, Tube or taxi. You can predict precisely how long every journey will take,… — Jeremy Paxman
My whole day is built around meetings that can be achieved around bike rides. My contract actually offers me a free car from my home… — Jon Snow
In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on… — Beatrix Campbell
No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded by Frenchmen. — Argus Hamilton
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… — Major Taylor
The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar… — Brock Yates
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident. — George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is actually found in simple things, such as taking my nephew around the island by bicycle or seeing the stars at night. We go… — Andrea Hirata
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind. — Robert M. Pirsig
In 1904, 20 per cent of journeys were made by bicycle in London. I want to see a figure like that again. If you can't… — Boris Johnson
Just as the ideal of classic Greek culture was the most perfect harmony of mind and body, so a human and a bicycle are the… — Richard Ballantine
My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes. — Raf Simons
The bicycle had, and still has, a humane, almost classical moderation in the kind of pleasure it offers. It is the kind of machine that… — J. B. Jackson
Possibly the tragedy of the bicycle is that it was invented too close in time to the car. In the historical scheme, pedal power hardly… — Richard Ballantine
The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match man's metabolic energy to the impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips the efficiency of… — Ivan Illich
A human and a bicycle are the perfect synthesis of body and machine. — Richard Ballantine
Upscale people are fixated with food simply because they are now able to eat so much of it without getting fat, and the reason they… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older… — Jack Dee
Someone told me about drama schools, and they seemed like mythological places - you can really go and be in drama classes all day? I… — Nick Moran
Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the… — Rohinton Mistry
I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son. — Lech Walesa
To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary… — Paul Eldridge

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