Migrating Quotes

#1. Between highway sounds I heard waves and thought how the curve of the coastline here had sheltered and nurtured live-born sharks, humans, and migrating whales. Here, at the edge of the continent, time and distance stopped; in the lull between sets of waves I could get a fresh start.

Gretel Ehrlich

#2. People hit the sauce in a big way all winter. Amidst blizzards they wrestle unsuccessfully with the dark comedy of their lives, laughter trapped in their frigid gizzards. Meanwhile, the mercury just plummets, like a migrating duck blasted out of the sky by some hunter in a cap with fur earflaps.

Amy Gerstler

#3. I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.

Daniel H. Wilson

#4. Every cuisine tells a story. Jewish food tells the story of an uprooted, migrating people and their vanished worlds. It lives in people's minds and has been kept alive because of what it evokes and represents.

Claudia Roden

#5. For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#6. But human borders mean nothing to air, water, windblown soil or seeds or migrating fish, birds or mammals.

David Suzuki

#7. He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

Anton Chekhov

#8. We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.

Harrison Ford

#9. The possibilities of migrating from an economy based on owning to one based on sharing are limitless.

Jay Samit

#10. In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

Martin Parr

#11. The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

Salman Rushdie

#12. For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground ... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

ASAP Rocky

#13. However, for the purposes of migrating existing Rails applications to services, the shared database approach may be necessary in the early stages.

Paul Dix

#14. At night on land migrating monarchs slumber on certain trees, hung in festoons with wings folded together, thick on the trees and shaggy as bearskin. [p. 244]

Annie Dillard

#15. Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable ... the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown along the street ... by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese.

Hal Borland

#16. I'm telling you, Ivy, this is the best thing to happen to her since that boy band she liked got run over by a pack of migrating deer. Look how relaxed she is. Better than a spa day.

Kim Harrison

#17. Most of the birds of the Old World can be found here, as Oman is on a strategic route for migrating birds.

Saadi

#18. How do migrating birds know which one to follow? What if the lead bird just wants to be alone?

Bill Bryson

#19. An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by any archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke in man the slightest trace of that age-old animal power which drives the migrating bird across the sea. . . .

C. G. Jung

#20. Strengthen the rural areas and you will find less people migrating to urban areas. You give them opportunity, self respect & self confidence, they will never go to an urban slum.

Bunker Roy

#21. From 1991 to 2000, I was totally nomadic. I was travelling 300 days a year and building out my research. These were a bit like my learning and migrating years, so to say.

Hans Ulrich Obrist

#22. The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west. It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions. There were no people on the street anymore. They were rumors carrying bags.

Markus Zusak

#23. And you know that anyone who at least once in his life has caught a perch or seen blackbirds migrating in the fall, when they rush in flocks over the village on clear, cool days, is no longer a townsman, and will be drawn towards freedom till his dying day.

Anton Chekhov

#24. There is no point in criticizing readers for migrating online. You have to follow them and offer them something new.

Mathias Dopfner

#25. As a researcher at US Berkeley I used to go into the brains of small, little animals and study the way that brains were connected and how little did I know that one day that was going to be my future - exploring the universe of the brain and hold it in between my hands and look at cells migrating.

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

#26. I think, if you create the right economic framework in terms of government policy, that Saskatchewan can continue to succeed and grow. Instead of having people migrate from Saskatchewan, they will be migrating to Saskatchewan.

N. Murray Edwards

#27. And the man who seeks salvation in change of place like a migrating bird would find nothing anywhere, for all the world is alike to him.

Anton Chekhov

#28. The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom.

Swami Vivekananda

#29. There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#30. After this, he'd probably be going to zoos, climbing the enclosure, saying, 'Here, watch this...' Famous last words, as yet another unfit human is removed from the gene pool.

Kelley Armstrong

#31. My mother worked in the white world, but I lived almost exclusively in a black world. I don't think I had ever seen a white teacher until I got to high school.

Edward P. Jones

#32. My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling roughly over quick hands, they have many clean words to say, my grandmothers were strong.

Margaret Walker

#33. God doesn't need to be a witness. He doesn't need to go to a court, does he? 'You' are the one who has to attain a witness state, so that there's no karma bondage. And 'God' only keeps on 'seeing'!

Dada Bhagwan

#34. The adoptee benefits because his collective parents are permitted to grow secure in their particular roles in his life. His adoptive parents are not unwittingly encouraged to compete to possess him. Nor are his birth parents punished and banished from a place in his life.

Kathleen Silber

#35. Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.

Deion Sanders

#36. If it ain't broke, then don't fix it

Maya Banks

#37. One could be a ray of sunshine in pants as well. -Scout Finch

Harper Lee

#38. I got so used to saying good-bye that when he disappeared for real I didn't notice.

Kate Pullinger

#39. A problem is a solution yet to be discovered

Marc Torra

#40. Otherwise you fall into contempt of your neighbor, if you judge his evil will towards you, instead of My will acting in him.

Catherine Of Siena

#41. For the courage to write above myself;
For the guts to shout down the Critic within;
Fir the willingness to release the past, the future,
I thank You, that which Inspires.

Catherine W. Scott

#42. Great art would have 'head': it would have interesting intellectual ideas and concepts. It would have 'heart' in that it would have passion and heart and soul. And it would have 'hand' in that it would be greatly crafted.

Shea Hembrey

#43. And she's like, you know, the 'Grace' in U2's song, the one that 'carries the world on her hips'." - Diana Rigsby, M.D. Ph.D.

L.A. Kragie