Martha Graham Quotes

I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

Martha Graham

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• If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.

  

  Jack Adams
  • Free
  • You
  • Advice

• Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Nature
  • English
  • View

• Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • Nature
  • Society
  • Wish

• Man has evolved a mutual relationship with nature on earth, but his power to change its surface has grown so tremendously that this may become a curse instead of a blessing.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • May
  • Power
  • Nature

• My dad grew up with an avocado tree in his backyard. My entire family, my wife and daughters, they love avocado. I may well be allergic. It makes me physically sick.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Family
  • Love

• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• It's not often that the idea of continuing something for a potentially long period of time sounds exciting to me, because I really am a gypsy by nature.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Period

• I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• To be rude to someone is not my nature.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Nature
  • Someone
  • Rude

• We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Night

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Conspiracy

• We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

  

  Hamdi Ulukaya
  • Good
  • Different
  • Thinking

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Life
  • Nature
  • New Life

• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Permanent
  • Learners

• Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• Adultery is the injury of nature.

  

  Plato
  • Nature
  • Injury
  • Adultery

• All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Nature
  • Sin
  • Merits

• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Successful
  • Ability
  • Most

• Without deadlines and restrictions I just tend to become preoccupied with other things.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Become
  • Without
  • Deadlines

• I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being.

  

  Martha Graham
  • Nature
  • Tree
  • Everyday