Ballerina Quote by Chita Rivera Download Open image “Mother loved dance so much that she thought (ballerina) Margot Fonteyn should be the president.” — Chita Rivera ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballerina Ballerina Margot Dance Loved Dance Margot Fonteyn Mother Mother Loved Parenting President Should Thought Ballerina
I didn't really know anything about Margot Fonteyn. I'd never really been a ballet child, so I had no idea what an incredibly huge… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
Fonteyn was our first proper British ballerina, and from the moment I started dancing, her image engulfed me. In my first year at the… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I don't care if Margot is a Dame of the British Empire or older than myself. For me she represents eternal youth; there is… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen. — Tracy Anderson Copy Share Image
“If the ocean were music, sailboats would be the ballerinas. I was never any good at dancing before. Maybe I didn’t know how.” — Renee Carlino Copy Share Image
My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet. — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image
My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing… — Emayatzy E. Corinealdi Copy Share Image
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen. — Tracy Anderson Copy Share Image
For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done,… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
You get the best out of people by allowing them to do their best work. — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
It's important that the kids stay busy. It's important that they have something to focus on, and something that they feel good about. — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
The spirit of dance is an amazing thing. When the body and the spirit meet, it's a good thing. — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
I was busy welcoming a new experience. I had never done a movie before. — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
Redheads have a lightness, a craziness, a kookiness. Think of Lucille Ball. — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
To become a classical ballerina, you have to move to New York when you're 12 or 11 and that becomes your life. I just… — Jennifer Garner Copy Share Image
Wouldn't it be great if we all grew up to be what we wanted to be? The world would be full of nurses, firemen,… — Lily Tomlin Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken. — Scott McClanahan Copy Share Image
I used to want to be a war photographer, and I used to want to be a ballerina and a comedian. I used to… — Cat Power Copy Share Image
Above all, I wanted to be appreciated as a prima ballerina who happened to be a Native American, never as someone who was an… — Maria Tallchief Copy Share Image