Graceful Quotes

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.
Erma Bombeck

Courage, May, Give

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 I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.
Shel Silverstein

Truth, Wise, Perfect

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Good, Women, Pretty

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore

Beautiful, Start, Everyone

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Society, Order, Civil

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

Two, Goodness, Duty

In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the merit that vainly aspired to it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Love, Successful, Ambition

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
Auguste Rodin

Nature, Him, Through

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge

Time, Men, Able

The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
Richard Carlson

Grateful, High, Mood

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
Louis Nizer

Worth, Thousand, Insults

Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
Orlando Bloom

Strength, Seven, Spirits

Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
Orlando Bloom

Down, Top, Focused

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 I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
Zoe Saldana

Time, Able, Body

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
Zoe Saldana

Life, Art, Character

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.
Pindar

Age, Old, Childhood

I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated.
Brian P. Cleary

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Joshua Reynolds

Children, Dancing, Master

I'm not graceful.
Karlie Kloss

Of course, fighting is not going to be as graceful as movie fighting. I don't like it to be ugly and I don't like it to be one big brawl or people clobbering each other.
Gina Carano

Fighting, Big, Ugly

There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its value.
Ellen Goodman

Life, Job, Leaving

The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway.
Jack Vance

Good, Writing, Pretty

When it came to the stylish and graceful art of ballroom dancing, my dad was a king of the clubs, a prowling tiger and a wonderfully natural mover.
Bruno Tonioli

Art, Dad, Natural

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it.
Douglas Hyde

Lonely, Strange, Tree

I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.
Aly Raisman

Strong, Powerful, Everyone

The graceful Georgian streets and squares, a series of steel engravings under a wet sky.
Shana Alexander

Sky, Series, Streets

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.
Mary McCormack

Good, Person, Playing

The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.
Maxine Hong Kingston

Work, Hard, Gods

Pop songs are not as graceful as they used to be. Performers today haven't gone through the regimen of learning how to write. And of course, everyone wants to own copyrights.
Hal David

Learning, Today, Through

I was a dork. I'm still kind of goofy and clumsy and not always the most graceful person.
Katrina Bowden

Person, Dork, Clumsy

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