Graceful Quotes

208 quotes by 170 authors

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master. — Joshua Reynolds
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. — John Ruskin
Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and… — Zoe Saldana
Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me… — Shel Silverstein
You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wanted her to see that the only life worth living is a life full of love; that loss is always part of the equation;… — Pam Houston
In Europe life retreats out of the cold, and exquisite fireside myths have resultedâ€”Balder, Persephoneâ€”but [in India] the retreat is from the source of life,… — E. M. Forster
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride… — Louisa May Alcott
Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody… — Tony Hoagland
He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in… — Neil Gaiman
There are these rare moments when musicians together touch something sweeter than they've ever found before in rehearsals or performance, beyond the merely collaborative or… — Ian Mcewan
I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance,… — Megan Whalen Turner
All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the… — Megan Whalen Turner
If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as… — Leonard Cohen
Mom and I were walking onteh beach and I was explaining to her how I wantd to "GET OVER all my INSECURITIES" and "La La...… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in… — Carl Sagan
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which… — Charlotte Bronte
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so… — David Foster Wallace
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. — Henry James
the dreams of childhood - it's airy fables, its graceful, beautiful, humane, impossible adornments of the world beyond; so good to be believed in once,… — Charles Dickens

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