Hiking Quotes - Page 8

There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.

Our feet are our body's connection to the earth.

Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top.

I represent what is left of a vanishing race, and that is the pedestrian. That I am still able to be here, I owe to a keen eye and a nimble pair of legs. But I know they'll get me someday.

We have seen from experience that, if we are in the habit of walking regularly on the same road, we are able to think about other things while walking, without paying attention to our steps.

Well, I was born and raised in the Midwest, in Indiana specifically, and my childhood was full of weekend movies, you know, the Saturday and Sunday popcorn movies.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

Walking is the number one exercise for your feet as well as your body. Barefoot walking is the ideal.

I can walk down the street all day and people look at me, but they don't talk to me or stop me.

I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.

Also, I walk and hike in several different nearby parks near our home several early mornings a week.

A souvenir of those years is a small cottage on the cliffs of Cornwall, where Joyce and I spend a spring month every year, hiking and seeing friends.

Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur.

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

But the fact is, it's illegal for the Administration to spend North west taxpayers' money to develop this rate hike proposal, just so it can turn around and raise their energy rates.

Especially with the signing of riders with climbing abilities and the new arrival of Tyler Hamilton, who has the strength and ability to become a great leader for the big tours. All in all, I feel this is a very complete team.

I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.

I really didn't have any bad hitchhiking experiences. The only bad experiences were standing by the road for 10 hours. I never thought I'd get a ride with a ministers wife or a coalminer or a Republican elected official. It was all pleasant surprises. The only drag was the waiting.

Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.

My life is very exciting now. Nostalgia for what? It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind and see the steps. That's where I was. We're here right now. Tomorrow, we'll be someplace else. So why nostalgia?

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.