Famous Quotes & Sayings

Julia Glass

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.

He didn't have 1,000 miles on that bike when he wrecked, ... That was the first bike he'd ever owned.

Thomas Sangster

I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

Daniel Bruhl

When I was around 15, I did my first movie. I was at a kids' agency, and the third time I was invited to an audition, they offered me a little part in some kiddie thing, and I earned my first money. I was very proud that I could buy my first mountain bike with my own money.

Today I rode the new bike all day and we made some good progress. It was the first time we've had chance to spend a lot of time on the chassis and engine and I went quite a lot faster on it than I did last time here so that's positive. It's still a prototype machine and there are a lot of things we still need to try because it's quite a bit different to my other bike. It would have been nice to test the two bikes back to back but I'm sure we'll get a chance tomorrow.

He rode his bike (to campus) every day. It never mattered what the weather was. He would only drive if the weather was really bad.

Valentino Rossi

I think it's going to test the riders and the bikes to the maximum.

Austin Nichols

L.A. is such a car-driven city, and it's great to see so many people - I think people are hungry to get on their bikes and get out of their cars and get off of oil and save money and save the environment.

Yara Shahidi

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.

We try to instill that this is not royalty. We put them in the backyard, teach them how to ride a bike and let them play barefoot. The highlights truly are catching fireflies and picking strawberries - all those things they never thought about.

Rahm Emanuel

He has to get off his mountain bike and back to work.

Johan Bruyneel

He got back on the bike to train three weeks after the end of the Tour de France,

I would get on the bike every morning and ride around downtown with a knapsack on my back and literally pick up orders, most of them sympathy orders. I just kept that route every day just to let people know we were serious.

I would have gotten on a bike the next day with him. I hope he wants to ride, because I really enjoyed it and I know he did too.

Paul Robinson

I worked right the way through the summer, ... I had a grade-two tear of the ligament. They couldn't reconstruct it so I had to go in a brace and let it heal itself. Then I had to work on the strength of the muscles and the hamstring to compensate for the missing ligament. I was on crutches for about three weeks and then it was about getting the movement back. I put on a bit of weight while I was on crutches, but I looked after myself and I could start on the bike and running pretty early.

Dave Foley

I got on my bike in 12th and that's my make-up time, ... The bike today was a personal-record for me and I am really happy about that.

We let Carlos, Nasser and Hiroshi pass us today and then we were in their dust. If you want to finish the stage safely you need to keep out of the dust of the car in front. It was just like a long train of cars and bikes today. There was no chance to get into a rhythm.

Bernard Hill

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.

Summer Sanders

With my son, falling off his bike is usually what makes him upset, so a hug goes a long way. But girls are more complicated; my daughter will get bummed out because her friend hurt her feelings. In that case, we'll talk about it. I'll tell her that she's a great friend, and that she needs to talk to her friends about it.

Without this program, there is no doubt in my mind that many disabled children would not be riding bicycles. I am a rocket scientist, and I like to solve puzzles. And I know that if we can put a man on the moon and send a rocket to a distant planet, we can certainly get disabled children riding bikes without training wheels.

Christine Quinn

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

Andy Serkis

I have a road bike and a mountain bike, and I tend to use them both a lot. They help you keep your balance and your stamina.

There are lots of old bikers and lots of new bikers. For some people, they bought a bike for the first time this year.

With our configuration, when a fire truck comes along, the cars in the one through lane can move into the bike lane.

When we start, we start them with a very flat roller and therefore the bike will virtually stay up on its own.

We came back in the fall, bought bikes and started riding.

The recumbent bike works your large muscle groups to start the blood flowing and get prepared for the task at hand.

We're not only coming to the end of the year, but the end of a millennium, so for anything tied to a model year, like cars, bikes and electronics, you should be able to get a pretty good deal on now.

Jeremy Roenick

To be on the (stationary) bike every day, sometimes twice a day, and just being skated without pucks for five weeks, six weeks, that (expletive) is for the birds.

Bruce Cameron

I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.

Mary Pope Osborne

When I was growing up, kids would go outside and play all day and invent things. And my brothers and I pretended our picnic table was a ship one summer. Our bikes were horses, and our trees were forts. We turned everything in the world into make-believe.

Mark Hall

There is a bike for everyone. There are bikes for just about every specific need, even hand-pedaling bikes. You just have to find the correct bike for the rider.