"Eaglettes we love to dance we've got the style, we've got the grace,we've got the talent,we've got whatever it takes...."-- Halie Medkiff

"Dancers are the athletes of God." ~Albert Einstein

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking." ~Agnes De Mille

"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another." ~anonymous

"Why do I dance?.....Why do I breathe?" ~anonymous

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience." ~M. Louis

Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances. --Maya Angelou

"You can dance anywhere, even if only in your heart." ~Unknown

"Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It's the rhythm of your life. It's the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy." ~Jaques D'ambroise

"Dancers are an admirable bunch of people. The way they work. The stress is extraordinary. It's a difficult career. I think it's hellish; the fact that they are over the hill as they're emotionally maturing. That calls for a terrific strength of character." ~Lady D. MacMillan

"Dancers are among the most passionate and dedicated of artists and rarely take their work for granted."

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer." --Shana LaFleur

I don't want people who want to dance, I want people who have to dance. --George Balanchine

Dance every performance as if it were your last --Erik Bruhn

La danse, c'est le mouvement, et le mouvement, c'est la vie.
("Dance is movement, and movement is life.")
             --Ludmilla Chiriaeff (Founder, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens)

Dancing is like dreaming with your feet --Constanze

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
             --Havelock Ellis

Dancing's just a conversation between two people. Talk to me. --Hope Floats

Dance is a song of the body. Either of joy or pain. --Martha Graham

Dance is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that: your dancing spirit.
             --Judith Jamison

The Marquesan girls dance all over; not only do their feet dance, but their arms, hands, fingers, ay, their very eyes seem to dance in their heads.
             --Herman Melville

To sing well and to dance is to be well educated.
             --Plato

To those of us with real understanding, dancing is the only pure art form.
             --Charles Schulz [in Peanuts (Snoopy speaking)]

quotes courtesy of kathleenacademy.com and sqlblue2.cul.columbia.edu