Also Quote by Albert Murray

That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland

— Jonathan Stroud

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony…

— Andre Dubus

Hence it is from the representation of things spoken by means of posture and gesture that the whole of the art of dance has…

— Plato

The symbolism in any kind of dance allows for recall, reenactment, and reexperience of events for purposes of resisting, reducing, transforming, and escaping stress.

— Judith Lynne Hanna

The aesthetic pleasure of dance is a secondary reflection of the primary, vital joy of courtship.

— Havelock Ellis

The fancy dance is a celebration of each other, and a celebration of life. The one thing I always heard was: we dance for…

— Lily Gladstone

We clasp the hands of those who go before us, and the hands of those who come after us; we enter the little circle…

— Wendell Berry

If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of…

— Curt Sachs

The dance in which the men form one row, the women another, and dance with and opposite each other in a form of love…

— Curt Sachs

All ceremonies are in themselves very silly things; but yet, a man of the world should know them. They are the outworks of Mannersand…

— Lord Chesterfield

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

— Isadora Duncan