Foster Kinn > Quotes

“In this world, there are only a few things more available than gasoline: coffee, soda and beer. Oh, and bad advice.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Take a stand. If you end up standing alone, then dammit, stand alone.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Commanding his domain on top of the world, Crater Lake sits in brooding blue and bold relief against an unsympathetic sky, the water like a solid, weighty mass anchored at the earth’s core. The winds are unforgiving, the clouds hostile, the hidden shoreline mysterious.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“The sky and the earth,
The night and the light,
The heat and the cold,
The rain and the drought;
Those are my demigods.

But the road,
The road is my mistress.
Devious and open,
Harsh and nurturing,
She seduces me with love
And dares me with death
In equal measure.
Just like any good woman.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Ride Big,
Ride Long,
Ride Free.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“When Freedoms Live, We Ride;
When We Ride, Freedoms Live.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“The best bike is the one you're on,
The best road is the one you're traveling,
The best destination is wherever you're headed,
The best time to get there is whenever you arrive.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“The road listens. It believes in you.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Mountains slowly change, but they will always be there, defining Freedom.”
― Foster Kinn

“Any day is a good day to leave some miles behind.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“Nothing shouts out “Celebrity!” as loudly as being a biker in desperate need of a shave, a haircut and clean clothes.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“No one weaves the exquisite quite like Mother Nature.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“Riding a motorcycle is a tribute, a tip of the helmet as it were, to our rugged ancestors who challenge us through the dust of centuries, proof that we have succumbed to the safety nets of civilization.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“It’s in the sky, light or dark,
And in all the clouds and stars it holds;
It’s in the wind and the raindrops,
In the mountains and streams
That ignore man’s partitions,
In the seasons that forever unfold, one into the next.
It echoes from the past, is amplified in the present, And waits for us in the future.
It’s in our dreams; perhaps it is our dream.
It is the very fiber of our hearts.
Freedom.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Harbor a healthy suspicion of safety.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“If there’s a there there, there’s a road that’ll take you there.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“The center-point of riding a motorcycle, and of life itself, is Freedom.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“I've long since been of the opinion that "home" is wherever you plant your boots.”
― Foster Kinn

“Liberty Road: You’re either on it or close to it.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“If it were illegal to kill insects, I’d be in the clink for three million years.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Saw about a dozen and a half bikers pull into a gas station. After watching them stop at the pumps, start up their bikes and ride to the front of the convenience store, stop, then fire up their bikes again and take off, I’ve come to conclusion that the most time consuming activity bikers engage in is finding neutral.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“The Everglades have a sinister, beguiling beauty, shadows dark and mysterious, a holocaust of secrets upon secrets upon secrets; and you can’t help but wonder how many layers there are, how many are yet to come.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Truck drivers are great with directions. Landmarks, road conditions, the works. The only problem is that they’ll give you five different routes to just get to the next town. By the time they’re done, you won’t know what the hell to do.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Riding is a sacred place.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast

“When Freedoms exist, we ride;
When we ride, Freedoms exist.”
― Foster Kinn

“I live in the Temple of Winds;
Amid the night,
Amid the light,
Amid the half-light.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Wyatt stopped before crossing the Mississippi River and sat next to the waters for a long while. He thought about its history and came to view it as a physical expression of the Dark Companion, bleak and inconsolable, and he wondered how many souls and dreams and passions lay inert in its depths. The mysteries hummed constant.”
― Foster Kinn, The Poet, The Professor, and The Redneck: How Men Die, How They Live

“If you want to outrun your Destiny, first choose a different road to run on.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast

“Within every good experience is the promise for more;
within every bad experience is the promise for better times.”
― Foster Kinn, Finding Janey:

“For some of us, riding a motorcycle makes heroin addiction look like strolling to the dessert table at a Sunday brunch.”
― Foster Kinn, Freedom's Rush II: More Tales from the Biker and the Beast