Locomotion Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Poetry in motion walking by my side, her lovely locomotion keeps my eyes open wide.
— Johnny Tillotson
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
— Edward T. Hall
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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
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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
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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
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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: