Sedentary Quotes

“So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life

“The sedentary life...is the real sin against the holy spirit.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Parents are told to turn off the TV and restrict video game time, but we hear little about what the kids should do physically during their non-electronic time. The usual suggestion is organized sports. But consider this: The obesity epidemic coincides with the greatest increase in organized children's sports in history.”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“But I hate being a grandfather. It's indecent. In my mind's eye, I'm still twenty-five. Thirty-three max. Certainly not sixty-seven, reeking of decay and dashed hopes. My breath sour. My limbs in dire need of a lube job. And now that I've been blessed with a plastic hip-socket replacement, I'm no longer even biodegradable. Environmentalists will protest my burial.”
― Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

“A generation of children is not only being raised indoors, but is being confined to even smaller spaces. Jane Clark, a University of Maryland professor of kinesiology . . . calls them "containerized kids"--they spend more and more time in car seats, high chairs, and even baby seats for watching TV. When small children go outside, they're often placed in containers--strollers--and pushed by walking or jogging parents. . . Most kid-containerizing is done for safety concerns, but the long term health of these children is compromised. (35)”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“I know that [civilized men] do nothing but boast incessantly of the peace and repose they enjoy in their chains.... But when I see [barbarous man] sacrifice pleasures, repose, wealth, power, and life itself for the preservation of this sole good which is so disdained by those who have lost it; when I see animals born free and despising captivity break their heads against the bars of their prison; when I see multitudes of entirely naked savages scorn European voluptuousness and endure hunger, fire, the sword, and death to preserve only their independence, I feel it does not behoove slaves to reason about freedom.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality

“Warning: Before beginning an program of physical inactivity, consult your doctor. Sedentary living is abnormal and dangerous to your health.”
― FRANK FORENCICH, Exuberant Animal: The Power of Health, Play and Joyful Movement

“The world is run largely by urban, sedentary males. The symbol of power is the chair.”
― Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man

“The vast majority of buttocks are overused, whereas that of minds are underused.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“In reality, is being sedentary a choice to run from our calling by not running after it?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Radiation does discriminate. If you are sedentary and eating processed foods then you will be more affected than a person that exercises and eats fresh organic food.”
― Steven Magee

“The human body is not designed to be sedentary.”
― Steven Magee

“Probably best, he thought. If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up. Still. . . if her boys were gone . . .”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“The biggest thing that Stephen Hawking taught me is that an extremely sickly and sedentary person can live to the ripe old age of seventy six.”
― Steven Magee

“Fitness has nothing to do with thinness. A chubby person who works out daily is fitter than a skinny person who has a sedentary lifestyle.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Gente Mente Adelante: Prejudice Conquered is World Conquered

“Since you're hell-bent on a sedentary lifestyle,' he said, 'I thought I'd go one step further and bring your food to you.'

My stomach was already twisting with hunger, and I lowered the book into my lap. 'Thank you.'

A short laugh. 'Thank you? Not "High lord and servant?" Or "Whatever it is you want, you can go shove it up your ass, Rhysand"?' He clicked his tongue. 'How disappointing.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“The masses sitting using computers daily has coincided with a health crisis in the population.”
― Steven Magee, Pandemic Supplements

“A sedentary lifestyle is a slow and painful death.”
― Sanjo Jendayi

“It isn't easy to end things, just like that, like a wink or a sigh, or a whiff of air or a shrug of the left shoulder, it isn't easy to end anything.”
― Aporva Kala, Love Ugh! A Darker History of a Human Being