Movement Quotes · Page 45

Movement is most of what a bird is. When they're dead, they're only feathers and air.

— William Wharton

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

— John F. Carlson

A major concern of some of us who were not sympathetic to the separate Telangana movement was with respect to the future…

— Sanjaya Baru

There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

— Alan Cohen

The Black Lives Matter movement is stronger when non-black people step up for it.

— Demba Ba

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

— Toni Morrison

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced…

— Ahmet Ertegun

When remaining in awareness itself, every thought movement, no matter what kind, is like a drawing in air.

— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She…

— Jim Costa

I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for…

— Luke Scott

America will never resist abortion until America sees abortion... The pro-life movement is not primarily a response to Roe vs Wade. It…

— Frank Pavone

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of…

— Thomas Frank

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights…

— Archie Shepp

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people…

— Alice Walker

The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco-populism. Ecopopulism. To change our laws and culture, the green movement justice, political…

— Van Jones

The future is a process, not a destination. Richard Stallman is a guy my age. I sympathize with Richard rather more than…

— Bruce Sterling

“Our Victrola stood in the diningroom. I was allowed to climb onto the seat of a diningroom chair to wind it, start…

— Eudora Welty

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so…

— Simon Newcomb

I lay down across her with my face in her breasts and my hand on her. We lay there without moving. But…

— Samuel Beckett

While there are many who would say that the race to the moon was hardly green, many others have noted that the…

— John F. Kennedy

Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but…

— Janine di Giovanni

Here," Myrnin said, his voice still gentle and low. "Amelie said you had to work. No one said you had to work…

— Rachel Caine

The other way that you democratize the food movement is through the public school system. If you can pay enough for the…

— Michael Pollan

Creativity is not a solitary movement. That is its power. Whatever is touched by it, whoever hears it, sees it, senses it,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I hate that expression, 'fusion.' What it means to me is this movement where nothing ever really fused.

— Wayne Kramer

The soul is characterized by these capacities; self-nutrition, sensation, thinking, and movement.

— Aristotle

Within the E.U., in a wider context, people are increasingly recognising the need to prevent the abuse of free movement.

— Theresa May

The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.

— Sally Ride

I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.

— Brooke Burke

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.

— Marian Wright Edelman

Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.

— Thomas Frey

We need to open up our party to wider involvement to build the movement we need to win elections and change our…

— Wes Streeting

A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it's cut right up to…

— Tom Ford

We're here to let the Democrats know that the grass roots and the anti-war movement elected them to create change.

— Cindy Sheehan

When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

I have always been inspired by the American peace movement because it is operating in a very hard and militarist environment.

— Mairead Corrigan

When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.

— William S. Burroughs

I know from personal experience just how critically important the work of LifeSite is - not just to me but the whole…

— Abby Johnson

Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

— Josip Broz Tito