walking quotes

The President is a walking dead man. He just doesn't know it yet.

-Anonymous
  Senior legislator on President Clinton's political future as he entered the second half of his term of office. In Nightline, ABC  T V broadcast, 6 Dec.

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'Muse  e des Beaux  Arts'.

And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Acts of the  Apostles 3:8.

Walking is a way of being somewhere, rather than striving to arrive.

-John Hillaby
  Journey to the Jade Sea.

Proud Maisie is in the wood, Walking so early; Sweet Robin sits on the bush, Singing so rarely.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Heart of Midlothian, ch.40 (MadgeWildfire's song).

Hey, Johnnie Cope, are ye wauking yet? Or are your drums a-beating yet? If ye were wauking I wad wait To gang to the coals i' the morning.

- Adam Skirving
  'Johnnie Cope', chorus (commemorating the Battle of Australian poet and journalist. In1924 he published Thief of  the Moon    and   in   1926    Earth-Visitors.    Darlinghurst    Nights    and Morning  Glories  (1933)  celebrates  'The  Cross',  the  bohemian district  of  Sydney  where  he  lived for  most  of  his  life.  His  verse was    collected    in    One    Hundred    Poems:   1919^1939    (1944, reissued  as  Poems,  1957),  and  his  prose  in   Bread  and  Wine (1970).

They have no education, no taste for reading, no housewifery, nor, indeed, any earthly occupation but that ofdressingtheirhair, andadorningtheirbodies.Theyhate walking, and would never go abroad, if they were not stimulated by the vanityof being seen† Nothing can be more parsimonious than the economy of these people. They live upon soup and bouille, fish and salad.

-Tobias George Smollett
  Of the nobility of Boulogne.Travels through France and Italy.

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking.

-John Barrington Wain
  BBC radio broadcast,13 Jan.