Locomotion Quotes

16 quotes by 15 authors

• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also… — Aristotle
• The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the amputee, the eyes of the… — Virginia Henderson
• In the same spirit, when the automobile arrived, there were those that declared the horse to be the most perfect form of locomotion. — Man Ray
• 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… — Theodor Adorno
• Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to… — Edward Abbey
• The similarities among animals that are on the surface very different are no coincidence. In fact, animal locomotion is no different than other flows, animate… — Adrian Bejan
• 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
• If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as… — Ouida
• In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries; the city's life, of surfaces… — Jonathan Raban
• Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
• Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide. — Johnny Tillotson
• Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing. — Edward T. Hall
• For all the social changes in China can be traced to their early beginnings in the days when the new tools or vehicles of commerce… — Hu Shih
• There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of… — Edward Abbey
• She was the most wonderful woman for prowling about the house. How she got from one story to another was a mystery beyond solution. A… — Charles Dickens
• The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle… — S. Jay Olshansky

Who Wrote These Locomotion Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 16 Locomotion Quotes as follows:

• 2 Locomotion Quotes by Edward Abbey
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Charles Dickens
• 1 Locomotion Quote by S. Jay Olshansky
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Aristotle
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Virginia Henderson
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Man Ray
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Theodor Adorno
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Adrian Bejan
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Ivan Illich
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Ouida
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Jonathan Raban
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Johnny Tillotson
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Edward T. Hall
• 1 Locomotion Quote by Hu Shih