Top 100 A Bike Quotes
#1. One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
Sheryl Crow
#2. Like riding a bike for the first time, sometimes you just have to go for it. If you keep looking forwards and maintain your momentum, it will probably go well. But if you start to doubt yourself and look back, you are more likely to suffer a major wobble followed by a crash.
Roz Savage
#3. If you can embrace the idea that your success and happiness are tied up in defeating the fear that's holding you back, you're 90 percent of the way to where you need to go, because no, we're not kids, and no, this is not a bike.
Seth Godin
#4. Sometimes parents limit the experiences their kids will have, saying they are going to fail; they can't ride a bike or do sports.
Marla Runyan
#5. Anyone who rides a bike is a friend of mine.
Gary Fisher
#6. With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to their cars. This is how I learned to ride a bike.
Mindy Kaling
#7. I had a bike accident a few years ago, and I went to the emergency room, and I had to have a gash sewn up. And I am the kind of person that I was sitting up fascinated, watching, to the extent that the doctor said, 'Do you want to do a couple of stitches? You seem to be very interested.'
Mary Roach
#9. Anyone who has ever ridden a bike, especially if you've commuted on one, will know that you fight a never-ending battle to be recognized as a legitimate possessor of road space. That's a very fancy way of saying that you engage in daily battles with asshole drivers.
Shane Niemeyer
#10. It's been a while since I've had sex. I figured it was just like riding a bike, the only difference is that after a while, the bike doesn't turn you over and ride you.
Beatrice Stark Girl Detective
#11. I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
Laura Schlessinger
#12. Some people say vaulting is like riding a bike-but not for me. I have to put in a lot of days to feel confident in what I'm doing.
Stacy Dragila
#13. Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.
Nolan Bushnell
#14. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot.
Diane Kruger
#15. Writing is like riding a bike. Once you gain momentum, the hills are easier. Editing, however, requires a motor and some horsepower.
Gina McKnight
#16. In my home, I listen to music; I play music: I play guitar and I play ukelele. And I swim and I ride a bike and I do all the things that everybody else does.
Charles Dance
#17. It creates an effective contrast, like riding a bike down a long and peaceful country road and every other hundred yards the bike turns into a bear.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#18. In Copenhagen, we all ride bicycles everywhere, partly because it is impossible to park a car, but also because you can cross the city in 20 minutes on a bike.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
#19. Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.
Paul Auster
#20. Relationships are a two way street. Not a highway and a bike path.
Vince Vaughn
#21. Uh-huh. Now Ali was beginning to get the picture. Riding backseat on a bike like Phantom was better than Mr. Blue any day. Not to mention the highly erotic act of wrapping one's legs around the man you loved.
Julie Ann Walker
#22. Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
Alice Hoffman
#23. Barney was nearly through with his workout, cooling down on a bike, when he realized he was not alone in the room.
Thomas Harris
#24. The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.
David Millar
#25. It's good Mam, you've got a bike
It's so much better than walking
Dad just thinks it's a blessed relief
It's the only time you stop talking
John Walter Bratton
#26. Enjoy that?" Tanith said with a little grin.
Valkyrie grinned back, her eyes bright. "I keep telling Skulduggery he should get a bike."
"What does he say?"
"He says people who wear leathers, like you, should ride motorbikes. People who wear exquisite suits, like him, should drive Bentleys.
Derek Landy
#27. I am relying on the theory that playing golf is just like riding a bike and that I haven't forgotten how.
Jennifer Wyatt
#28. From now until the end of the year I would like to eke out one victory, that's my short term aim. I am sure I can be competitive in 2004. Tennis is like riding a bike, you never forget how to do it.
Marat Safin
#29. My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year.
Amar'e Stoudemire
#30. Reading and gardening are really big for me, along with music and exercise. If I go more than a day or two without a run or a bike ride or something, I start to get kind of itchy and antsy.
Mark Deklin
#31. It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one's balance.
Albert Einstein
#32. Half-formed ideas, they float around. They come from different places, and the mind has got this wonderful way of somehow just shoveling them around until one day they fit. They may fit not so well, and then we go for a bike ride or something, and it's better."12
Walter Isaacson
#33. The solo break or the small break, it's ... one of the most glorious ways to win a bike race. It's pretty damn impressive in my mind.
Jens Voigt
#34. L.A. is great, but it's a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying 'Hi' to people. Some of that is missing in L.A.
Yara Shahidi
#35. It sounded so promising. As if this would be the day. The day to ride a bike without training wheels. To make it through the afternoon without a stained blouse and a scolding. To persuade the girl next door to like me. To meet a man. To make a mint. To prosper. To love. To live fearlessly.
Anna Quindlen
#36. I always tried to live my life as though nothing changed. People would say, 'You can have a Rolls-Royce'. I'd say to that, 'What do I want with a Rolls-Royce when I can have a Volkswagen or a bike?' Some people get carried away with the juice.
Chuck Feeney
#37. I was always fast riding bikes with my brother who got me on a bike. There was little to do so I ended up riding everywhere. It was both my transportation, entertainment, and a good way perhaps to make a living I hope.
Peter Sagan
#38. I drove a bike here. Fancy a ride on it?" "A motorcycle?" No, that wouldn't do. No trunk to carry his body in, and I wasn't about to balance it on the handlebars.
Jeaniene Frost
#39. You know a school is run by stuck-up sons of bitches when it doesn't even have a bike rack.
Francesca Zappia
#40. You can't read good-night stories to your bank account, or brush its hair, or teach it how to ride a bike for the first time.
Marko Kloos
#41. Driving a car versus riding a bike is on par with watching television rather than living your own life." - Bruce MacAlister, Calgary
Silver Bullet
#42. On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the goings-on in one's own town.
David Byrne
#43. An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.
Spiro T. Agnew
#44. Formal learning is like riding a bus: the driver decides where the bus is going; the passengers are along for the ride. Informal learning is like riding a bike: the rider chooses the destination, the speed, and the route.
Jay Cross
#45. It's amazing how I'm able to ride around on a bike. People kind of see it's me but since I'm on a bike, they think, 'No, it's not her.' And by the time they realize it's me, I'm already gone.
Beyonce Knowles
#46. Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been.
Jimmie Johnson
#47. I don't like taking physical risks at all. I take a lot of emotional risks, and I don't feel like I need to get on a bike or a horse or jump off of anything ever.
Jenny Slate
#48. A bike is the world's most used form of transportation
David Byrne
#49. Exercise is really important to me - it's therapeutic. So if I'm ever feeling tense or stressed or like I'm about to have a meltdown, I'll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.
Michelle Obama
#50. I've almost been hit by a lot of things in New York City. I am pretty sure I have almost been hit by a bike messenger before.
Sasha Pieterse
#52. For exercise, I tend to like the outdoors. In Paris, I rent a bike in the street and cycle around, and in L.A. I live up in the hills so I go hiking a lot. I like to stay fit by being generally active.
Diane Kruger
#53. Life is like riding a bike. It is impossible to maintain your balance while standing still.
Linda Brakeall
#54. I've never ridden a bike before."
Horse leaned over and gave me a quick kiss on the mouth.
"Lookin' forward to being your first, babe.
Joanna Wylde
#55. With a bike you go from zero to a hundred in terms of mobility.
Robin Williams
#56. My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.
Peter Golkin
#57. What I'm saying is that loving you - even if I'm not sure you love me - it's familiar territory," he said. "I've picked it right back up like riding a bike. And I can do it for a little while longer, if that's what you need.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#58. I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.
Jill Soloway
#59. I find it easier to write in the winter in Melbourne. When the weather is good you want to go out for a walk, ride a bike, go to a cafe or something. When it's raining, when it's a miserable day, I just sit down at my desk and get some work done.
Adrian McKinty
#60. I keep telling you, nobody wants legs like a stick insect. They want a bottom they can park in a bike in and balance a pint of beer on.
Helen Fielding
#61. I'm no Lance Armstrong, but I do use a bike to get from place to place in Manhattan, a little bit of Brooklyn.
David Byrne
#62. Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Dan Buettner
#63. I ride a bike and use aerobic equipment twice a week, and work out with a trainer, lifting weights.
Bob Iger
#64. You live more for 5 minutes going fast on a bike than other people do in all of their life.
Marco Simoncelli
#65. I used a bike in London and that's it. I learnt a lot about biking, and really got into. Now I cycle regularly.
Jonny Lee Miller
#66. I'm going to swim 0.93 miles, ride a bike 24.8 miles, then run a final 6.2 miles. And what's all that supposed to prove? How is this any different from pouring water in an old pan with a tiny hole in the bottom?
Haruki Murakami
#67. I used to work in a bank when I was younger and to me it doesn't matter whether it's raining or the sun is shining or whatever: as long as I'm riding a bike I know I'm the luckiest guy in the world.
Mark Cavendish
#68. The city of Paris is determined to promote the happiness-on-a-bike fantasy. Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo wants to turn the city into the most bike-friendly capital in the world.
Elaine Sciolino
#69. All my friends say I have to get right back on the bike. And I keep saying, "Maybe not a bike!"
Sheryl Crow
#70. The amazing thing about being a bike rider is that you always know from the first turn of the pedals what sort of a day you are going to have.
Paul Kimmage
#71. I have to say I'm very good on a bike. Maybe the last time I was 5 years old.
Alysia Reiner
#72. Just like I believe God is everywhere, I believe that whether it's nature, whether it's sitting on a bike in spin class, that can be church, too, for me.
Lisa Rinna
#73. I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'm out in the woods on a bike or a run. I feel on top of the world, and nothing else makes me feel that way.
Daniel Humm
#74. I'm probably more dangerous in a car than I am on a motorbike; on a bike I'm very mindful of the fact that if you make a mistake, you're dead.
James McAvoy
#75. If we buy a bike, will you travel? Will you brave the ferry?
Rosalie Marsh
#76. I talked late, swam late, did not learn to ride a bike until college - and might never have walked or learned to drive a car if my parents hadn't overruled my lack of motivation and virtually forced me to embrace both forms of transportation. I suspect I was happy to sit in a corner with a book.
Julia Glass
#77. Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
Taraji P. Henson
#78. I have yet to meet a filmmaker who upon seeing her footage for the first time, didn't want to simultaneously bust open a bottle of Champagne, and move to another country to take a job as a bike courier. This is normal.
Roberta Marie Munroe
#79. When the sun is a bike ride away, I will hear it. It will sound like wind in treetops. I will awaken.
Jerry Spinelli
#80. I've never been on a bike," I say. "I mean, I've been on a bike but not a motorcycle."
"And why is that?" he asks.
"Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That's just gross."
Chris makes a face.
"If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.
Summer Lane
#81. Beware of addictive medicines. Everything in moderation. This applies particularly to the Internet and your sofa. The physical world is ultimately the source of all inspiration. Which is to say, if all else fails: take a bike ride.
Aaron Koblin
#82. Individuals are told to reduce our "carbon footprint," and we should. But how many years of riding a bike to work would it take me to offset one F-15 flying for an hour?
Bruce E. Johansen
#83. Well, you go to Holland and everybody's on a bike - nobody would think to have a car.
Stone Gossard
#84. I've got a bike. You can ride it if you like. It's got a basket, a bell that rings and things to make it look good. I'd give it to you if I could, but I borrowed it.
Syd Barrett
#85. Anyone can ride a bike," Jack said. "Even an elf." The corner of his mouth went up in amusement. "She can ramble through the grove, her natural habitat, and visit her animal subjects.
Marta Acosta
#87. You can always add something to a bike, but you come to a point where you can't take anything away and that's a fixed gear bike
Graeme Obree
#88. It was like an apple running for Congress, a bike rack wearing a bathing suit.
Daniel Handler
#89. Nothing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride.
John F. Kennedy
#90. I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
Emo Philips
#91. It's something I find enjoyable. Whether it is a road bike or mountain bike or tandem bike. I enjoy riding a bike.
Lance Armstrong
#92. What's interesting is a lot of the older music when we start performing it, it acts a lot like muscle memory. It's kind of like riding a bike. For me as a singer, I just had to remember like what part of my face I sang that into.
Brandon Boyd
#93. To me, writing is like learning to ride a bike. At first you have your training wheels on but before you know it, you have graduated to a ten speed!!
Lorine S. Thomas
#94. A true fascist is anyone who wants to take away my air conditioning or force me to ride a bike.
David Harsanyi
#95. I take cabs if I need to get somewhere or I take car service. I don't drive, I wouldn't mind riding a bike ... People think that because you become an entertainer you gotta have this rock star thug image. I'm an artist, man. I'm going to live like an artist.
ASAP Rocky
#96. I haven't ridden a bike in a while because I'm so scared I'll get hit and die.
Alysia Reiner
#97. Don't get ideas. That boy's behind won't mount a bike, precious. He might blow one up in a military exercise, but he's not gonna ride alongside you while you mosey into town and pick up salad fixin's for dinner.
Kristen Ashley
#98. I have this fantasy of my older days, painting or sculpting or making things. I have this fantasy of a bike trip to Chile. I have this fantasy of flying into Morocco. But right now, it's about getting the work done and getting home to family. I have an adventure every morning, getting up.
Brad Pitt
#99. Nearly everyone who has ridden a bike for any length of time will agree. The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong ever done them by man, beast or fate.
Hunter S. Thompson
#100. I had a dream about you. You were on a bike going 70 miles an hour, I could see you approaching my car in the mirror. You were trying to say something so, I jumped on the brakes as hard as I could, I guess I forgot I had tied your bike on my bumper.
Georgia Saratsioti