Toni Cade Bambara Quotes

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

A point of rest alone explains motion.

It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!

Everything I do is somehow connected to velocity.

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

The one thing I couldn't imagine is stopping still.

That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

Words may move, but they're never moving fast enough.

I figured it out eventually," she says. She's sitting on the edge of the gurney again; her features slowly materialize as my vision clears. "It's momentum." "What?" I whisper. The feeling returning to my lips, spreading out to my fingertips and toes. "Momentum," she repeats. "You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

What goes up must come down.

Thus far we run before the wind.

You are either going forward or you are not.

Unless you go forward then you are going back.

I guess I'm fascinated with motion because I find that whenever anything is moving, I have some feeling about it. It doesn't matter what kind of motion it is. A motion will always evoke some kind of reaction.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Playgrounds are essentially machines to induce Newtonian physics on our own bodies.

Movement isn't progress.

Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.

Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist.