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Quotes About Movement

I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn't something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.
~ Ron Rash
Move with a spring & vegetable swiftness, Seed-case & burr & tremulous grasses, a grove—vocal in the wind—
~ Ronald Johnson
Los movimientos socialmente anómalos dejan fisuras en el entramado convencional por donde se escapan los espíritus más libres
~ Rosa Montero
Los puertorriqueños estaban acostumbrados a transitar de isla en isla y de continente en continente como aves cuya condición natural era tránsito.
~ Rosario Ferré
When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind going. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
~ Rousseau
Nearly all the population areas of the Americas were reduced by 90 percent following the onset of colonizing projects, decreasing the targeted Indigenous populations of the Americas from one hundred million to ten million. Commonly referred to as the most extreme demographic disaster—framed as natural—in human history, it was rarely called genocide until the rise of Indigenous movements in the mid-twentieth century forged questions.
~ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The ultimate freedom lies in knowing everything, including you, is in a state of flux; you're never still, you're always 'nexting';
~ Ruby Wax
On the other hand, strong feelings were aroused by something else. At that time man was much more active than later. Everything in his environment as well as the images in his soul, stimulated him to activity, to movement. When his activity could proceed without hindrance, he experienced pleasure, but when this activity was hindered in any way, he felt displeasure and discomfort.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Hearts are like horses. They come and they go against bit or spur.
~ Rudyard Kipling
The Irish move to the sound of the guns like salmon to the sea
~ Rudyard Kipling
dolphin-jump in the air
~ Rudyard Kipling
One view called me to another; one hill top to its fellow, half across the country, and since I could answer at no more trouble than the snapping forward of a lever, I let the country flow under my wheels.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Her work in the garden was almost at a standstill now; the January and February days were all alike, they went like a procession of the nuns themselves, unrelieved by any colour, there seemed to be no life or movement in the earth but the wind tearing at the trees and bamboos.
~ Rumer Godden
I am the wind...The free wind...- Kagura
~ Rumiko Takahashi
I was on South Bank one day by the Royal Festival Hall. It was a sunny day with a bright blue sky. I was looking up at a train crossing the Hungerford Bridge. Through the train I could see the sky successively framed by each window as the carriage passed. Each window moving quickly forward and away held briefly a rectangle of blue. The windows passing, the blue remained.
~ Russell Hoban
What do you do when you're wound up?' she asked. 'Do you play that drum?'. 'No,' said the child. 'We used to dance.' 'But now we walk,' said the father. 'And behind us an enemy walks faster.' 'That's life,' said Euterpe.
~ Russell Hoban
Wel realy there aint no stilness any where is there. Not 1ce you begin to take noatis.
~ Russell Hoban
The dance had begun.
~ Ruth Doan MacDougall
wriggled to avoid the lump that always seemed directly under
~ Ruth Downie
Jiko looked out accross the ocean to where the water met the sky. A wave is born from the deep conditions of the ocean, she said. A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and roll along like a wave. Until it's time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.
~ Ruth Ozeki
nothing in the world is solid or real, because nothing is permanent, and all things---including trees and animals and pebbles and mountains and rivers and me and you---are just flowing through for the time being.
~ Ruth Ozeki
Maybe it's time for artists to get out of the studio and move into the streets? I want to focus more on unmaking.
~ Ruth Ozeki
In this way, fluid and shape-shifting, we divide and multiply and move through time and space.
~ Ruth Ozeki
A wave is born from deep conditions of the ocean," she said. "A person is born from deep conditions of the world. A person pokes up from the world and rolls along like a wave, until it is time to sink down again. Up, down. Person, wave.
~ Ruth Ozeki