“I like being able to walk into an old town and find good local food.” AbleWalksTownsLocalsLocal Food Author:Sienna Miller
“I don't want to live in Maine full time, but the physical beauty is very striking. It is the exact opposite of New York. When you walk through my small town to get a cup of coffee, you bump into five people you know.” PeopleKnowsWantWalksFiveNew YorkOppositesTownsCoffeeCupsSmall TownBumpsCoffee CupMainePhysical Beauty Author:Elizabeth Strout
“I can walk into a gun store in my town and buy military-grade weapons. You'd be shocked by the amount of firepower you can buy - 50 caliber sniper rifles and the same shotguns the Marines carry in Iraq or Afghanistan. It doesn't matter whether I know how to use these things - I can just walk into a store and buy them.” KnowsI CanMatterUseWalksKnow HowMilitaryAmountWeaponsGunTownsIraqStoresGradesAfghanistanShockedMarineRiflesCaliberShotgunsSnipers Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“If I just think of the churches in my little town here because I've been to every one of them, there are 27, there aren't that many where you walk in and say wow, people are excited about their faith. A lot of them, it's just what you do on Sunday at 10:00 or 11:00 and that's not true in other countries. In some other countries, it's still a very lively, vibrant experience.” PeopleIfsThinkingLittlesStillsCountryChurchWalksTownsExcitedSundayWowOther CountriesLivelyLittle Towns Author:Philip Yancey
“On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff.” WholeWalksSonCoupleTownsParksMy SonLapBullsJamieChristmas DayHydeHyde ParkMastiffs Author:Stella Vine
“A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.” EndsCountryCareSidesNatureWalksQuietSummerRiversWeightTownsSunsetBreastsMeadowsTranquilDwellers Book:LITTLE DORRIT Source: LITTLE DORRIT
“My parents are from a whole different culture. My parents are from small-town Louisiana. It's like, if it walk like a duck, talk like a duck, then it's a duck. And if you ain't quacking, you ain't no duck.” IfsDifferentWholeCultureParentWalksTownsDucksSmall TownLouisianaDifferent Cultures Author:Bun B
“P. G. Wodehouse... used, when in town, to solve the problem of the long walk to the post-office by the simple expedient of tossing his letters out of his window: his belief that the average human, finding a stamped and addressed envelope on the pavement, would naturally pop it into the nearest pillar-box was never once, in decades, shown to be unfounded.” HumansLongProblemUsedBeliefSimpleWalksOfficeFindingsWindowLettersTownsAverageBoxesPopsSolveDecadesPostsPillarsEnvelopesPavementPost OfficeLong Walks Author:Stephen Fry
“I just moved onto Queen West, after 20 years in Cabbagetown. The whole area around Trinity-Bellwoods is one of the juiciest in Toronto - all kinds of people to watch, dogs to pat, food to eat, galleries to check out. And the walk home from CBC delivers some of the most interesting window-shopping in town.” PeopleYearsKindWholeHomeWalksInterestingWatchesDogAreasWindowTownsMovedWestChecksAll KindsQueensShoppingMost InterestingGalleryTrinityTorontoWindow ShoppingCbc Author:Andy Barrie
“It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it.” NightWalksRoomsWeekTownsMilesMealsTemplesSundayBottlesKrishnaCokeDepositsHaresDormsGood MealsSunday NightHare KrishnaDorm Rooms Author:Steve Jobs
“I once had a letter from a man who asked to do something very weird. He told me he wanted to sit on my shoulders and for me to then walk around his town to raise money for charity. He described himself as being 6ft and I was thinking, 'I'm only 5ft 4in, and you want to sit on my shoulders?' How bizarre.” ThinkingMenWantWantedWalksLettersTownsRaisesCharityShouldersBizarre Author:Nikki Sanderson
“I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.” HomeUsedWalksWeekTownsClubsQueuesHome Town Author:Nikki Sanderson