Top 991 Dirt Bikes Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I liked the banana-seat bikes with the high handlebars - maybe a card in the wheel could have been part of it.

The three things that kept me sane as a child were bikes, books, and soccer

People who race bikes don't talk about crashes. They keep going.

I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.

Some guys, first pitch of the at-bat gets called a strike - maybe it's a ball off or below their knees, and it gets called a strike - and then the next two pitches, they swing at balls in the dirt, and all of a sudden, they're yelling at the umpire about that first pitch. You just swung at two balls in the dirt, buddy.

I love mo'bikes and riding them is my passion.

when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

People have to be more careful in traffic. It's hard to ride bikes in Curitiba.

It didn't matter if we didn't have new bikes and skateboards and a nice car, and a lot of food in the fridge. We were in the ocean just enjoying life to the fullest.

The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.

I grew up in Wicklow, near Roundwood. It's a beautiful place on the east coast. That's where I started riding bikes.

I don't listen to any music when I train - I do it outdoors, and I'm not a fan of iPods on bikes.

I'm a bit of a thrill-seeker. I used to race mountain bikes when I was a kid. I did the national circuit for two years.

As for hobbies, I don't really read or watch TV. I'm very active. I like surfing, skiing, riding bikes with my kids, and working out with my friends.

My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.

My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation.

I do what I love for a living, and I also get to build BMX bikes in my spare time.

After 'Nine Million Bicycles', I was sent bikes from all over the world. I got about 10.

Once I decided to retire from bikes, there was no thought to go racing again. I wanted to have a full year off and maybe even see the world a bit.

Akshai has his own range of mo'bikes. That's how we met.

I'm still like that kid who loves being involved in bikes.

So we're going to do a Battlestar Galactica themed bike and bring another one of the bikes.

My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

I'll watch a bit of Formula One, and motorcycle racing. I've always had an interest in all motorsports, and I still ride bikes.

Two kids riding their bikes to an empty lot? It never ends well.

Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.

The bikes have been sitting around, but now were getting them out and using them.

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

Eating wantan mee in Malaysia is my earliest memory. The street sellers there have a whole cooking set-up on the front of their bikes.

I've got two bikes that get me everywhere I need to go. And public transportation.

I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette.

I had beautiful bikes and I was really into it. I just thought it was really glamorous.

The kids I knew growing up who worked on bikes all loved the smell of gas. It is the liquid agent for speed.

I've never ridden a hog. I only have sport bikes. But that's basically how I get around L.A. Because traffic is horrendous.

And so we polish our own lives, creating landscapes and canyons and peaks with the very silt we try to avoid, the dirt we disavow or hide or deny. It is the dirt of our lives—the depressions, the losses, the inequities, the failing grades in trigonometry, the e-mails sent in fear or hate or haste, the ways in which we encounter people different from us—that shape us, polish us to a heady sheen, make us in fact more beautiful, more elemental, more artful and lasting.

I've ridden shopping bikes. My dad held my saddle and pushed me along when I was five. I've had a go on a BMX.

I was lucky. My father raced bikes. He gave me the passion very early. I had my first bike when I was three or four years old.

We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

I ride a Harley and a chopper. Those are the two bikes I ride the most.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

You know, I like to climb trees and ride bikes and play.

We say we are earthlings, not waterlings. Our blood is closer to seawater than our bones to soil, but thats no matter. The sea is the cradle we all rocked out of, but its to dust that we go. From the time that water invented us, we began to seek out dirt. The further we separate ourselves from the dirt, the further we separate ourselves from ourselves. Alienation is a disease of the unsoiled.

I love rowing machines and I like assault bikes because they just whoop up on you.

Let's face it, I like Stanford grads. I'd always hear about this campus, and everybody is riding bikes, and people hopping into fountains.

DMX was just one of the figures that I thought no one could ever be better than. I used to look up to him so much. The bikes, the dogs, that's where I come from.

Even when I'm at home, I keep to myself - skateboarding, riding bikes, and stuff in the house.

Bikes are clearly a superior form of transportation when it comes to just simple getting around. A car makes sense if you need to carry a bunch of stuff.

I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

I was playing golf. I swung, missed the ball, and got a big chunk of dirt. I swung again, missed the ball, and got another big chunk of dirt. Just then, 2 ants climbed on the ball saying, "Let's get up here before we get killed!"

When I become president, all you assholes that ride bikes in the city? Lock and load! You're going down!

I'm writing kid's books, I'm doing endurance racing with Le Mans and designing bikes. I've also got my own range of cycling clothing.

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese.

From Brompton bikes in Australia to Bentleys in the US - the world wants what Britain has to sell.

I collect cars and bikes. One of my most special rides is a black 1930s Cadillac V16, and then I've got a few West Coast choppers.

The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

It was just a fairly normal high school existence, riding our bikes around and hanging out in parks and down in the village.