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Moving Quotes

On change, growth and moving forward.

One quote traces a path from college theater electives to a full relocation out to Los Angeles after graduation, a literal kind of moving. Another uses the word emotionally, describing how choked up a well-known actor became while telling a particular story.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and...

Quotes by Gus Van Sant

Compromise is moving in the right directlon more slowly than one might like.

Quotes by Grover Norquist

I'm not really capable of memorizing stuff without moving around, that's how I do it.

Quotes by Greta Gerwig

A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.

Quotes by Greg Graffin

Decades before President Richard Nixon bet his re-election on winning the Dixiecrat vote, Wilson worked out his own Southern Strategy. Even as he was moving the nation to war, Wilson re-segregated Washington and purged African-Americans from federal jobs.

Quotes by Greg Grandin

I like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.

Quotes by Greg Iles

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.

Quotes by Greg Lake

The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.

Quotes by Grace Abbott

As one of the country's largest land-grant universities, Ohio State must play a critical role in moving our country forward.

Quotes by Gordon Gee

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

Quotes by Gloria Steinem

'12 Years a Slave' was very powerful, very moving, and deserved all of the acclaim it did get.

Quotes by Glynn Turman

My only objective is to paint a Christ so moving that those who see him will be converted.

Quotes by Georges Rouault

Everybody has talent, it's just a matter of moving around until you've discovered what it is.

Quotes by George Lucas

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

Quotes by George Eastman

This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it...

Quotes by Gene Luen Yang

I do a film because at that particular moment, I want to make a film. It is my attempt at moving away from the ordinary.

Quotes by Gautham Menon

It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.

Quotes by Gabrielle Reece

The move into adult comedy wasn't so much moving away from 'The Wonder Years' as expanding myself as a director.

Quotes by Fred Savage

Rugby is a different game. There is an interruption every two minutes also in American football. Our soccer is a moving game: play, play, play, move, move - you don't interrupt.

Quotes by Franz Beckenbauer

I'm always moving like a kid. I'm always bouncing around and never sit still.

Quotes by Frankie Ballard

Frequently Asked Questions

Is "moving" used mostly in a physical sense in this collection, or emotionally too?
Both - it covers relocating for a new chapter in life, being emotionally moved by someone else's story, and the more abstract, physics sense of things being in motion.
Is there a personal story about a career and relocation?
Yes - one quote traces a specific path: theater work that "branched into" from college electives, a break "during the summer between my junior and senior year," and eventually, "After I graduated, I ended up moving out to L.A."
Is there a quote about being emotionally moved by someone else?
Yes, one quote is a short, vivid moment: "And Hackman had really choked up when he was telling it. It was very moving," describing genuine emotion in someone else's storytelling.
Does this collection touch on physics?
Yes, plainly: one quote reflects on how a major shift in modern physics caused real upheaval in the field, because it shook the very foundations the science had been built on - a reminder that "moving" can describe ideas shifting, not just people or objects.
Is there a quote about accepting change and letting go?
Yes - one quote sums it up simply: "I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on." This same restless, forward-looking spirit runs through the Moving Forward quotes collection.

A more technical quote reflects on how modern physics only truly advanced once its old foundations started to shift beneath it. A closing line keeps things simple, insisting that life itself is really just about moving on. See our forward quotes and always quotes pages.