Martha Graham Quotes
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.
Martha Graham
Quotes to Explore
-
From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
Lata Mangeshkar
-
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
Salman Rushdie
-
The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
Yolanda Adams
-
To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
Baron d'Holbach
-
The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
-
That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
Zara Larsson
-
I was in art school once a week from six to 16, which was essential in shaping my artistic sensitivity.
Philippe Petit
-
Today, hundreds of millions dwell in freedom, from the Baltic to the Adriatic, from the Western Approaches to the Aegean. And while we must never take this for granted, the first purpose of the European Union - to secure peace - has been achieved and we should pay tribute to all those in the EU, alongside Nato, who made that happen.
David Cameron
-
Through my school years, I learned more about slavery, anti-black racism, and oppression in the U.S., and my blackness could no longer be an afterthought. I started wearing it proudly, and as my consciousness deepened, so did my love for black folks.
Luvvie Ajayi
-
I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.
John Lithgow
-
[Death is] the best asylum for pains and sorrows and troubles and the injustices of life.
Sadegh Hedayat
-
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose: I was chosen to be a dancer, and, with that, you live all your life.
Martha Graham
