#moving

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them. ↗

— Roger Zelazny

#growing-up #growth #life #moving-forward #moving-on

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life. ↗

— Amy Hempel

#page- #life

Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it. ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#life #lucky #moving-on #unlucky #life

We're just moving along as quick as possible. ↗

— Mark Russell

#just #moving #possible #quick

I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#building #entailed #growing #growing up #had

There is no standing still because time is moving forward. ↗

— Greg Lake

#forward #moving #moving forward #standing #still

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

#beautiful #burst #comes #first #know

It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope. ↗

— Horst Koehler

#been #christian #german #i #i can

But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

#arts #child #children #curriculum #drilling

I think there are lots of ways to make good work. You can throw big bucks at a project and make what some would call crap, or you can work very modestly with eloquently moving results. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

#bucks #call #crap #eloquently #good