Quotes About Progress

We belong far less to where we've come from than where we want to go. —FRANZ WERFEL

sometimes in a blink, and sometimes so slowly you can't even see it happening.

School gave me wings to leave rural Pennsylvania for Philadelphia, and my diploma gave me wings to Manhattan.

The past hadn't been erased just because a new future had been handed it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson that "Life is a journey, not a destination.

the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

There's always a way to make something better, even if it means sweeping up the broken pieces and starting all over. That's how we keep moving, keep breathing, keep opening our eyes every morning, even when the only thing we know for sure is that we're still alive.

Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

What drives pure reason to efforts that seem to have neither end nor result?

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way it should be, while never losing sight of the way it is, is what being a grown-upmcomes to.

If the right to happiness is not an idle piece of wishful thinking but a demand of reason, the consequences can be revolutionary.

Mississippi is a place where the resistance to the Enlightenment is out in the open, making it anything but obsolete.

How we remember the past constrains the possibilities we consider for the future.

Doing what you can to move your part of the world closer to the way that it should be, while never losing sight of the way that it is, is what being a grown-up comes to.

African American history in all its torment and glory is American history, and we cannot move forward until all Americans see it that way.

Forget the past and move on isn't even helpful in the realms of individual psychology; as political advice, it is worthless. When pasts fester, they become open wounds.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

When I wonder what the future of books will be, I often think about horses. Before automobiles existed, everyone had a horse. Then cars became available, and their convenience, compared to horses, was undeniable.

On a library bookshelf, thought progresses in a way that is logical but also dumbfounding, mysterious, irresistible.

It's human nature to set a point in our minds when we feel triumphant and to measure everything that comes after it by how far we fall or rise from that point.

the board believed it would be in everyone's best interest to have a man run the library.

The ban against tall buildings was finally lifted in 1957. Nothing much happened at first; downtown remained stunted compared to most other cities of its size. As developer Robert Maguire put it, Los Angeles seemed destined to be a city "just ten stories high, all over hell and gone.

Los Angeles seemed to always be moving toward the eternal future; it was a city that shed memories before they had a chance to stick.

The film industry began in 1910 with the production of D. W. Griffith's movie In Old California and grew by bounds.