Movement Quotes - Page 5

• The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Art, Vitality, Fury

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• Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Danny Glover

  Children, Rights, Civil Rights

  "On Movies, Money & Politics". Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.

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• As it has over the decades, the union movement stands for the fundamental moral values that make America strong: quality education for our children, affordable health care for every person-not just some-an end to poverty, secure pensions and wages that enable families to sustain the middle-class life that has fueled this nation's prosperity and strength. Union members and other working family activists don't just vote our moral values-we live them. We fight for them, day in, day out. Our commitment to economic and social justice propels us and everything we do.

  John Sweeney

  Strong, Children, Commitment

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• The parallel development in American blues to the British movement has resulted in Johnny Winters.

  Alexis Korner

  Winter, Development, British

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• The ultimate aim of the modern movement in biology is in fact to explain all biology in terms of physics and chemistry.

  Francis Crick

  Facts, Chemistry, Physics

  "Of Molecules and Men". Book by Francis Crick, p. 10, 1966.

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• Similarly, dance is not just a raging sea of unrelated bodily movements; the relationship of those movements to one another is what creates integrity and integrality, a coherence and cohesion that the higher levels of our brain process.

  Daniel Levitin

  Integrity, Sea, Brain

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.18, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

  Guido Molinari

  Eye, Painting

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• The laws expressing the relations between energy and matter are, however, not solely of importance in pure science. They necessarily come first in order ... in the whole record of human experience, and they control, in the last resort, the rise or fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origin of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the race.

  Frederick Soddy

  Freedom, Fall, Science

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• What really interests me about capturing and suspending movement is that I get to experience something invisible and inaudible, as elusive and fleeting as thought itself, and give it form... Maybe my paintings are all just little fragments of the Cosmic Dance suspended in time.

  James Nares

  Giving, Fleeting, Littles

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• The world is not as it was when it came from its Maker's hands. It has been modified by many great revolutions, brought about by an inner mechanism of which we very imperfectly comprehend the movements; but of which we gain a glimpse by studying their effects: and their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.

  Adam Sedgwick

  Science, Hands, Long

  John Hudson (of Kendal.), William Wordsworth, Adam Sedgwick (1846). “A Complete Guide to the Lakes: Comprising Minute Directions for the Tourist with Mr. Wordsworth's Description of the Scenery of the Country, &c., ...”, p.168

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• Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Journey, Space, Silence

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• The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Philosophy, Science, Talking

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• John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

  Russell Banks

  War, Rights, Political

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• Part of me looks at the gay movement now and worries that we're losing our individuality.

  Boy George

  Gay, Worry, Individuality

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• The organization and constant onward sweep of this movement exemplifies the resentment of the many toward the selfishness, greed and the neglect of the few.

  John L. Lewis

  Organization, Greed, Selfishness

  Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.

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• The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

  Joe Slovo

  Believe, Mass, Democratic

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• The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Soul, Weight, Body

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• I'm very close to the pro-life movement.

  Roger Mahony

  Pro Life

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• Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

  Corliss Lamont

  Ongoing, Action, Humans

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• There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  People, Three, One Thing

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• What is the future of the woman's movement How in the hell do I know I don't run it.

  Kate Millett

  Running, Hell, Knows

  Kate Millett (2000). “Flying”, p.12, University of Illinois Press

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• The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.

  Christine O'Donnell

  Thank You, Eight, Years

  "O'Donnell hits the national stage" by David Catanese, www.politico.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Talking from morning to night about sex has helped my skiing, because I talk about movement, about looking good, about taking risks.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Sexy, Morning, Night

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• Today women in many countries are taking part in various types of movements of protest, some of which are serious struggles for economic and social emancipation .

  Kumari Jayawardena

  Country, Women, Struggle

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• Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one

  Christopher Dawson

  Christian, Literature, Humanist

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