Riding a bicycle is one of the most remarkable metaphors for living our life. It has characteristics that are amazing and at times mysterious. This is why numerous people from ordinary to the prominent ones have uttered quotes about bicycle that are continuing to inspire and motivate people from different generations.
Let us review some of them:
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep on moving.”
– Albert Einstein
“ thought of that while riding my bike.” –Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativity
“Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.” — John F. Kennedy
“Learn how to ride a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live.” – Mark Twain
“If you worry about falling off the bike, you’d never get on.” – Lance Armstrong
“When I was sick, I didn’t want to die. When I race, I don’t want to lose.
Dying and losing, it’s the same thing.” –Lance Armstrong
“But the fact is that I wouldn’t have won even a single Tour de France
without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is
temporary. Quitting lasts forever.” — Lance Armstrong
“The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it and get a new one without shocking the entire community. “ — Ann Strong
“After your first day of cycling, one dream is inevitable. A memory of motion lingers in the muscles of your legs, and round and round they seem to go. You ride through Dreamland on wonderful dream bicycles that change and grow.”
— H.G. Wells
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.” –Helen Keller
“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.”
–Charles M. Schulz
“One of the most important days of my life was when I learned to ride a bicycle.”
–Michael Palin
“Life is like riding a bicycle: you don’t fall off unless you stop pedaling.”
–Claude Pepper
“I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human
being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle.”
–William Saroyan
“The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart.”
— Iris Murdoch
“I never want to abandon my bike. I see my grandfather, now in his seventies
and riding around everywhere. To me that is beautiful. And the bike must always
remain a part of my life.” — Stephen Roche
“Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity.” — Lord Charles Beresford
“It is no longer a beast of steel . . no it is a friend . . it is a faithful
and powerful ally against one’s worst enemies. It is stronger than anxiety,
stronger than sadness. It has all the power of hope.” — Maurice Leblanc
“Since the bicycle make little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.”
— Stuart S Wilson
“It never gets easier, you just go faster.” — Greg LeMond
“The bicycle has a soul. If you succeed to love it, it will give you emotions that you will never forget.” — Mario Cipollini
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best,
since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember
them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses
you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven
through as you gain by riding a bicycle.” — Ernest Hemingway
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes
monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and
go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride
you are taking.” — (Sir) Arthur Conan Doyle
“The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine.”– John Howard
“When you ride hard on a mountain bike, sometimes you fall, otherwise you’re not riding hard.” — President George W. Bush
