George Balanchine Quotes

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

A seed knows how to wait... A seed is alive while it waits.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?

The Very Hungry Caterpillar” story is about hope. You, like the little caterpillar, will grow up, unfold your wings and fly off into the future

Love-buds, put before you and within you, whoever you are, Buds to be unfolded on the old terms; If you bring the warmth of the sun to them, they will open, and bring form, color, perfume, to you; If you become the aliment and the wet, they will become flowers, fruits, tall blanches and trees.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Sometimes it's about less is more. It's about the seed. Thinking about this gigantic tree that you think is so beautiful but it started with this just seed.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms.

Change is REFINEMENT. Change is GROWTH. Change is MOVEMENT. Change is OPPORTUNITY.

A human being is like a seed. Either you can keep it as it is, or you can make it grow into a wonderful tree with flowers and fruits.

Time is what turns kittens into cats.

I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment.

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.

It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.

It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn.

We are an unfinished nation.

If you don't let things develop, it's like keeping something in a bag and not letting it out to fly

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Change is one thing, progress is another.

The world is changing. We're not really proceeding on a stationary basis.