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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.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Quotes by Steven Chu

Don't you know by now, luck don't lead to anything or why you keep on moving.

Quotes by Steve Winwood

Just trying to make my music as good as possible and to keep performing and just keep moving.

Quotes by Steve Miller

Only by moving away from the comforts of your conference room to truly engage with and listen to your customers can you learn in depth about their problems, produce features to solve those problems, and learn what drives customers to...

Quotes by Steve Blank

Not long ago, I got to meet some troopers whose lives had been saved. They came with their wives, their children, their parents. It was a very moving occasion.

Quotes by Stephanie Kwolek

It's hard to say goodbye to the streets. It's all how you do it. You can pass by and say, 'What's happening?' and keep it moving, but it's a certain element that'll never be able to roll with you once...

Quotes by Snoop Dogg

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

Quotes by Siddhartha Mukherjee

My sister and I grew up all over India, in quaint little towns, especially in the north and the east. Moving every two years made me very outgoing and very adaptable.

Quotes by Shraddha Srinath

Moving to the United States is a huge decision.

Quotes by Shinsuke Nakamura

Hyperloop is a decades-long effort. You're moving steel and reshaping physical things, so you need government to help you build.

Quotes by Shervin Pishevar

Everything has to keep moving forward in 'Endeavour.' Otherwise, it will stagnate.

Quotes by Shaun Evans

If we are to maintain our position as a global economic leader, we've got to end the govern-by-crisis mentality that sets us back instead of moving us forward.

Quotes by Scott Peters

First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction.

Quotes by Saxby Chambliss

Instead of moving backward, we should expand opportunity and protections by repealing hateful laws and passing comprehensive LGBT nondiscrimination laws at the local, state, and federal level.

Quotes by Sarah McBride

I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.

Quotes by Sam Yagan

I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs - sweeping floors, laying tile. I also had paper routes.

Quotes by S. Robson Walton

I think in the NFL, continuity is something that is helpful, but it's not the end all. In a league where injuries are so prevalent, you're used to guys moving in and out.

Quotes by Ryan Kalil

We're finally moving out of the realm of solely discussing biology in regards to a drug-based world.

Quotes by Ryan Bethencourt

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

Quotes by Ruskin Bond

I find Suez astonishing for the first hour. It is a ditch in a desert, but a stunning one. The sensation of being hemmed in by huge ships, moving at a stately pace through a man-made waterway, is extraordinary.

Quotes by Rose George

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.