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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.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

Quotes by Clifford Geertz

For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.

Quotes by Christine McVie

After moving to L.A., I've started to appreciate the relaxed American look.

Quotes by Chiara Ferragni

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

Quotes by Charles Olson

Well I was out in the garden moving rocks on the day of the Emmys. I was just playing in the dirt.

Quotes by Charles Keating

By moving them vertically, a representative mean curve could be formed, and individual events were then characterized by individual logarithmic differences from the standard curve.

Quotes by Charles Francis Richter

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Quotes by Chanakya

Mixtapes have always been a guerrilla-style means of moving music.

Quotes by Chance The Rapper

The whole thing of moving the currency through currency sorting and detection machines and so on that was the whole process actually encouraging electronic transactions.

Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

Moving from corporate banking to retail banking to international banking to supervisory roles has meant completely reinventing myself.

Quotes by Chanda Kochhar

There's nothing quite as exciting or moving as the very finest literary non-fiction.

Quotes by Catherine Jinks

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.

Quotes by Cass Sunstein

We have a telescope that takes images, and we use a very nice computer program to isolate the moving images. And then, every potentially new asteroid is vetted by eye, so we take a look at each one, and then...

Quotes by Carrie Nugent

That's part of show business: the moving.

Quotes by Carmine Coppola

I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.

Quotes by Canelo Alvarez

I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.

Quotes by Camila Mendes

Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.

Quotes by Callum Keith Rennie

I like to write on tour busses and airplanes. Something about moving.

Quotes by Bryce Dessner

I will advocate moving the Illinois minimum wage back to the national minimum wage.

Quotes by Bruce Rauner

I remembered moving from Sacramento to Los Angeles with my mum when I was seven and my sister was three or four.

Quotes by Brie Larson

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.