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Walking Quotes

"When you take that step to decide to that are going to walk more, you can take it for granted that you have taken the right step. Walking, as far as the requirements of good health go, can prove to be extremely beneficial. If you are not willing to believe the truth in the statement made, take some time out to observe people who walk quite a lot. You will notice that the people who walk a lot more than the ones who hardly do are a lot healthier than the non-walkers. Go right ahead and read on for famous quotations and sayings on walking. "

Steven Wright

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

Time Humor
Steven Wright
Dolly Parton

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Dolly Parton
George W. Bush

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called 'walking.'

George W. Bush

Anyone who thinks hunters are just 'bloodthirsty morons' hasn't looked into hunting. If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show, or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you're sure to learn hunting isn't about killing.

Donald Trump, Jr.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

Democracy Politics
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sarah Paulson

I love the idea of people walking away with the idea of hope and possibility.

Love People Hope
Sarah Paulson
Princess Margaret

The Queen is the only person who can put on a tiara with one hand, while walking down stairs.

Princess Margaret

You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.

Life People
Harry Styles
James Spader

I grew up a Red Sox fan. I grew up going to Fenway Park and the Museum of Fine Arts and the Science Museum and Symphony Hall and going to the Common, walking around. My whole family at different times lived and worked in Boston.

Family Science
James Spader
Aaron Sorkin

I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Feelings Ideas
Aaron Sorkin
Evan Peters

I actually watch 'The Walking Dead.' I like 'The Walking Dead' a lot.

Evan Peters
Gerard Butler

I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio... It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that's what this story represents to me.

Beauty
Gerard Butler
Barack Obama

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.

Progress
Barack Obama

The one advice that I would give just to moms who have a child or a newborn is definitely sleep while the baby sleeps. I've heard that so many times. I never realized how true it really is. If you don't, you'll be walking around like a zombie.

Sleep
Tia Mowry
Sarah Jessica Parker

When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.

Life People Fall
Sarah Jessica Parker
John Krasinski

I taught English in Costa Rica before I went to college. I'm not an especially outdoorsy guy, but sometimes I would spot wildlife while whitewater rafting or walking in the rainforest at 5 A.M.

College
John Krasinski

There are always those 'Gossip Girl' walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.

Death Life
Chace Crawford
Rosamund Pike

I look my best when I'm totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach.

Best
Rosamund Pike
Leonardo DiCaprio

My mother is a walking miracle.

Leonardo DiCaprio

I'd asked for things like the 'Footloose' soundtrack and Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for my birthdays, but I remember walking what felt like miles to this cassette shop called The Warehouse to buy Paul Simon's 'Graceland,' U2's 'Joshua Tree' and a Roberta Flack album. I had pretty good taste.

Good Tree
Pedro Pascal
Amy Adams

I still think I'm like the poor girl from Colorado who worked three jobs to buy a car. That's still my mentality, so I'll be walking down the street, and I forget what I do and who I am.

Amy Adams
Arthur Ashe

I may not be walking with you all the way, or even much of the way, as I walk with you now.

Arthur Ashe

If you see a gaggle of teenagers walking towards you, you tend not to make eye contact, because you know they're going to recognise you. You learn to adapt: 99.999 per cent of people aren't looking to be harmful or unpleasant; they just want something, a photograph or an autograph.

People
Robert Sheehan
Robert Pattinson

I always get carried away when I'm kissing. I just go nuts! Walking away after it is the strangest moment for me. It's embarrassing - not knowing what to say to each other.

Robert Pattinson
Neil Armstrong

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

Excitement
Neil Armstrong
Stephen Curry

That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O'Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.

Feelings
Stephen Curry
Garrett Hedlund

I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.

Night Singing
Garrett Hedlund

I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

Teachers
John Krasinski
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Life Being Yourself People Self-Centeredness
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kurt Cobain

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Talking Play Guitar
Kurt Cobain
Olivia Wilde

I remember walking into drugstores when I was younger and seeing all the hair color boxes on the shelves and just being so in awe. Having the control to dye your hair and change your look is such a part of self-expression.

Change
Olivia Wilde
Viggo Mortensen

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.

Music Gardening
Viggo Mortensen
Naomi Osaka

Honestly, I feel like people don't look at other people when they're walking around.

People
Naomi Osaka
C. S. Lewis

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Progress
C. S. Lewis

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

Life Nothing
William Shakespeare
Margaret Thatcher

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

Margaret Thatcher
Alice Walker

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

Universe Age Nature
Alice Walker
Kellyanne Conway

Republican politics can sometimes feel like you're walking into, you know, an Elks Club or bachelor party.

Politics
Kellyanne Conway
Hippocrates

Walking is man's best medicine.

Medicine
Hippocrates
Emo Philips

I was walking down fifth avenue today and I found a wallet, and I was gonna keep it, rather than return it, but I thought: well, if I lost a hundred and fifty dollars, how would I feel? And I realized I would want to be taught a lesson.

Emo Philips
Ryan Reynolds

I find that I get a little depressed if I don't move my body each day, so sometimes it's just as simple as walking, and other times it's training for a marathon or some kind of personal goal that I'm trying to meet.

Training
Ryan Reynolds
Jackie Robinson

Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment.

Life
Jackie Robinson
Jodie Foster

I don't see anyone walking around with a puppet on his hand in real life. Puppet therapy is very common for children. It's not something that adults take on.

Life Children
Jodie Foster
Jim Parsons

In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

Jim Parsons
Billy Joel

Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Experience
Billy Joel

I fell in love with the ocean when I was just a little kid, four or five years old, I was a junior ranger, I was going out and doing intertidal stuff, walking around and sticking my finger in my first sea anemone and picking up starfish and all that. It gripped me when I was young.

Love Sea
Paul Walker
Lisa Marie Presley

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud.

Lisa Marie Presley
Matt Smith

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

Things
Matt Smith
William Morris

We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing.

Good Life Swimming
William Morris
Brad Pitt

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Experience
Brad Pitt

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

Hatred
Betty White
Sylvester Stallone

I think that gravity sets into everything, including careers, but pendulums do swing and mountains do become valleys after a while... if you keep on walking.

Sylvester Stallone

I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that.

Age Responsibility Eyes
Tom Hardy

I'm very physical. When I'm writing, I'm playing all the parts; I'm saying the lines out loud, and if I get excited about something - which doesn't happen very often when I'm writing, but it's the greatest feeling when it does - I'll be out of the chair and walking around, and if I'm at home, I'll find myself two blocks from my house.

Feelings Home
Aaron Sorkin

It seems like they conflate Bruce and the Hulk. It's usually, 'Hulk!' as I'm walking across the street. But sometimes it's 'Banner!' If you go on my Twitter feed, you'll see it's mostly Hulk. I think it was pretty spectacular what we were able to accomplish with CGI with 'The Hulk,' and I can't take full credit for that.

Mark Ruffalo
Jim Parsons

Apparently, all I do is walk my dogs. In L.A., I have more of a yard existence, and so I enjoy walking my two little dogs in New York - one's a Maltese and the other's a Shih Tzu.

Jim Parsons
Chris Evans

Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

Chris Evans
Neena Gupta

Coming back to 'Saath Phere' after a break of more than six months is like walking into an old home.

Home
Neena Gupta

Kendall is really satisfied on her role in 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians.' With her modeling career, she's so busy. If she's not walking a runway, she's shooting a campaign or traveling around the world with her fashion obligations. She's a pretty busy little girl.

Busy World
Kris Jenner
Wallace Stevens

New York is a field of tireless and antagonistic interests undoubtedly fascinating but horribly unreal. Everybody is looking at everybody else a foolish crowd walking on mirrors.

Wallace Stevens
Olivia Wilde

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

Decision
Olivia Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Greatness
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sean Penn

Yeah, I had actually tried to stop acting before I made Dead Man Walking.

Sean Penn
James Spader

I've had a lazy career. Sometimes one film a year, sometimes none. I'm walking around in the street and doing this other thing, living, that I'm much more interested in. I just do some acting on the side.

James Spader
Christopher Lloyd

'Cuckoo's Nest' came along, and I was cast, and that was great, but it was my first film, so I felt like I was kind of walking around on the set as Walk-On A.

Greatness
Christopher Lloyd
Stevie Nicks

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

Girl Age
Stevie Nicks
C. S. Lewis

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Age
C. S. Lewis
Stevie Nicks

But for me, I knew that if I had a baby, I would have to take care of that baby, and I wouldn't have been happy with a nanny taking care of my baby and walking into the room and having my child run across the room to another woman.

Stevie Nicks
Paul Hollywood

I've seen so many kids walking to school with these massive high energy drinks, and they are nine or 10. I'm like, 'What?' It was a treat for me. It is still a treat for my family.

Family Energy
Paul Hollywood

I like zombie movies. I like 'The Walking Dead;' I like the metaphor of it, simply because when we go with the zombie concept - if you're bitten by a zombie, you don't transform into something else like a vampire or a werewolf or whatever. You become something that's not you.

Marilyn Manson

Acting still rings my bell as much as it did in high school. Plus, I can now indulge my interests as a producer as well. My work is more fun than fun but, best of all, it's still very scary. You are always walking some kind of high wire.

Best Work
Tom Hanks
Christian Bale

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

Lonliness
Christian Bale
Ronda Rousey

That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'

Ronda Rousey

Indeed, the Muslims have all the social evils of the Hindus and something more. That something more is the compulsory system of purdah for Muslim women. These burka women walking in the streets is one of the most hideous sights one can witness in India.

Women
B. R. Ambedkar

I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.

Life Age
Ethan Hawke
Oprah Winfrey

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

Oprah Winfrey
Dr. Dre

Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.

Talent
Dr. Dre
John Krasinski

When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

Things
John Krasinski
Emilia Clarke

One of the shows I would very much love to be a part of is 'Mad Men' - walking around that office.

Love Men
Emilia Clarke
Arnold Schwarzenegger

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Discussion
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Viggo Mortensen

I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.

Time
Viggo Mortensen

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Opportunities Time Home
Kamala Harris
Millie Bobby Brown

There's this one show that I want to be in so badly. I'd try everything to get into 'The Walking Dead.' I don't even care if I'm a zombie.

Millie Bobby Brown
Justin Trudeau

I remember the bad times as a succession of painful emotional snapshots: Me walking into the library at 24 Sussex, seeing my mother in tears, and hearing her talk about leaving while my father stood facing her, stern and ashen.

Justin Trudeau

One of the very few things that I do every single day is put on fragrance. If I'm not wearing make-up, if my hair's not done, if I'm walking around in pyjamas - I still put my fragrance on. I will brush my teeth and put on my perfume.

Blake Lively
Dakota Fanning

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

People
Dakota Fanning
Jim Carrey

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

Night
Jim Carrey
Vin Diesel

I'm not really afraid of the dark, except if I'm walking. The thing that scares me the most is the possibility of walking into a wall and busting my lip.

Vin Diesel
Selena Gomez

Most of the time, people say negative things for a reaction, and I can't even bear to give them the satisfaction. So there's something that I gain from feeling like I'm the bigger person, from walking away from a situation.

People Time
Selena Gomez

I was walking around with the babies so much that when I got to the Sidney Lumet picture, I would be on set in between takes and I'd be rocking back and forth. Just standing like this rocking back and forth, and Sidney would say, Why are you walking like that in between takes?

Vin Diesel
Franklin D. Roosevelt

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Philip Seymour Hoffman

If you're a human being walking the earth, you're weird, you're strange, you're psychologically challenged.

Earth
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Blake Shelton

I get the same feeling walking into the Opry House as I do when I see one of my heroes.

Feelings
Blake Shelton
Robert Redford

Golf has become so manicured, so perfect. The greens, the fairways. I don't like golf carts. I like walking. Some clubs won't let you in unless you have a caddy and a cart.

Golf
Robert Redford

My life was always different growing up. I mean, even before the show, my dad was who he is. He's an Olympic athlete. And we were going to premieres, like 'Finding Nemo' premieres, and we would be little kids, like, before the show, walking down the red carpet.

Life
Kendall Jenner
Steven Wright

I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.

Steven Wright
Kangana Ranaut

I am not comfortable walking the ramp for just any designer. I am particular about who I associate with.

Kangana Ranaut

I went on a date once with a police officer, unbeknownst to me. I thought he was a regular guy. And when I found out that he was a police officer... I wasn't so into it. I got paranoid that I would illegally cross the street and get a ticket for jay walking.

Police
Nina Dobrev
Steve Buscemi

I love working with Scorsese. He's not only a brilliant director and is great working with actors, but he's also a walking human film encyclopedia. It's fun to talk about movies with him.

Greatness Love Movies
Steve Buscemi
Michael J. Fox

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day.

Dogs Golf
Michael J. Fox