Walks Quotes

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
John Burroughs

Friends, Thoughts, Find

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson

Nature, Strong, Character

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Life, Respect, Matter

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Fred Allen

Long, Taken, Annoy

God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.
Arthur Young

God, Thinks, Plants

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Morning, Evening, Whole

A friend is one who walks in when others walk out.
Walter Winchell

Friend, Others, Walk

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.
Margaret Thatcher

Job, Woman, Else

My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
Robert Frost

Beautiful, Rain, Dark

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Time, Before

I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Noel Coward

Long, Taken, Annoy

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
Plato

Life, Education, End

I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks.
Barack Obama

Morning, Car, Getting

Every success story has a parent who says, 'over my dead body.' Every success story has an old person who walks up to you and says, when you're acting the fool, 'you know I worry about you sometimes.'
Bill Cosby

Success, Fool, Person

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
George Washington Carver

Nature, God, Person

George is a radio announcer, and when he walks under a bridge... you can't hear him talk.
Steven Wright

Him, Talk, Hear

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Future, Past, Darkness

There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.
Bryant H. McGill

Life, Yourself, Greatest

And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
Walt Whitman

Sympathy, Whoever, Funeral

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell

Friend, Real, Rest

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.
John Keats

Death, Two, Same

Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
R. D. Laing

Help, Someone, Creative

The world dies over and over again, but the skeleton always gets up and walks.
Henry Miller

Again, Skeleton, Dies

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.'
Tommy Cooper

Help, Around, Looking

He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.
John Milton

May, Enjoy, Thoughts

This may be a dream, but I'll say it anyway: I was supposed to be married last year, and I bought a gown. When I meet Nelson Mandela, I shall put on this gown and have the train of it removed and put aside, and kiss the ground that he walks on and then kiss his feet.
Nina Simone

May, Put, Dream

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck

Work, Universe, Ahead

Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure.
William Congreve

Married, Pleasure, Grief

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann

Truth, Lost, Light

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.
Michelle Obama

Family, Help, Together

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