Definition of Heading

Heading

of Head

The act or state of one who, or that which, heads; formation of a head.

That which stands at the head; title; as, the heading of a paper.

Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.

A gallery, drift, or adit in a mine; also, the end of a drift or gallery; the vein above a drift.

The extension of a line ruffling above the line of stitch.

That end of a stone or brick which is presented outward.

Related Definitions:

Above, Act, Adit, Also, As, At, Brick, Drift, End, Extension, For, Formation, Gallery, Head, Heading, In, Is, Line, Material, Mine, Of, One, Or, Outward, Paper, Presented, Ruffling, State, Stitch, Stone, That, The, Title, Vein, Which, Who

Heading Quotations

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Vaclav Havel

But I believe in fair trade, and I will tell you, I have many, many friends heading up corporations, and people that do just business in China, they say it's virtually impossible. It's very, very hard to come into China. And yet, we welcome them with open arms.
Donald Trump

Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
Washington Irving

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
Susan Sontag

I was in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories in 1980. It was only a bit part and I didn't get to speak but I felt that I was in a real movie and heading where I had always wanted to be.
Sharon Stone

By the first week of shooting, you know exactly where your film is heading based on the psychology of your director.
Jodie Foster

The rarest of all things in American life is charm. We spend billions every year manufacturing fake charm that goes under the heading of public relations. Without it, America would be grim indeed.
Anita Loos

I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before heading further out.
Wally Schirra

My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows.
Jay-Z

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.
John Cheever

We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.
Paul Hawken

After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction.
Alice Hoffman

And I don't know where I'm heading. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea of what I want in life.
Jim Coleman

The deeper you get into Yoga you realize it is a spiritual practice. It's a journey I'm making. I'm heading that way.
Sting

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.
James Stockdale

Even as someone who's labeled a conservative - I'm a Republican I'm black, I'm heading up this organization in the Reagan administration - I can say that conservatives don't exactly break their necks to tell blacks that they're welcome.
Clarence Thomas

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
Edsger Dijkstra

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.
Nicholas D. Kristof

The Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you. But if you vote for them you're throwing your vote away.
Rick Mercer

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert.
Rick Moody

This is very interesting because the Liberal Party of Canada, heading into an election, at the last minute they always stand up and they say: We know there's people out there that want to vote NDP and God love you.
Rick Mercer

It seems we will continue to have problems with this classification and it may be because it comes under the heading of creation rather than preservation.
Walter Lang

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.
David Suzuki

At a time when U.S. jobs are heading overseas at a record pace, and amidst increased sanctions on our manufacturers and producers from other countries, it's imperative that we do all we can to provide our businesses a climate to operate successfully.
Blanche Lincoln

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be, because they depend on natural law. But it's much harder to see just what path we will follow in heading toward those limits.
K. Eric Drexler

I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
Roma Downey

I didn't check into rehab. Instead of me heading into a place - I was just drinking too much and I needed to get my life together. I'm still in therapy and stuff like that, but it's good. I'm great. I feel fine.
Richie Sambora

Every actor wants to break out of the box that they put you in and that's where I'm heading, out of the box as fast as I can.
Rick Springfield

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.
Leah Ward Sears

More Heading Quotations

Heading Translations

heading in Afrikaans is graad
heading in Danish is titel
heading in Dutch is titel, kop, onderschrift, graad

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.