My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. — Jelly Roll Morton Copy Share Image
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down… — Florence King Copy Share Image
The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life. — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions. — Brad Sherman Copy Share Image
New York is full of people . . . with a feeling for the tangential adventure, the risky adventure, the interlude that's… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic — Bernard Wolfe Limbo Copy Share Image
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
I was profoundly moved to be the first United Nations Secretary-General to attend the Peace Memorial Ceremony in Hiroshima. I also visited… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
I'll co-host 'TODAY' from Los Angeles Saturday morning and then make my way up to Merced for that evening's graduation ceremony. I'm… — Lester Holt Copy Share Image
No human society is too primitive to have some kind of literature. The only thing is that primitive literature hasn't yet become… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The purpose of any ceremony is to build stronger relationship or bridge the distance between our cosmos and us. The research that… — Shawn Wilson Copy Share Image
Shortly after her feeding tube is removed, Terri Schiavo receives the Catholic ceremony of last rites. Michael Schiavo stays in a room… — Mark Fuhrman Copy Share Image
A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Finally he said that if men drink the blood of God yet they do not understand the seriousness of what they do.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the… — Black Elk Copy Share Image
Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a… — Dally Messenger Copy Share Image
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Little do the devout worshippers of the Vatican suspect, when they lift up their eyes in mute adoration upon the head of… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor… — Josiah Strong Copy Share Image
I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do. — Elton John Copy Share Image
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
There is pomp, ceremony and romance as a behavior, and then there is love as a real thing that is felt between… — Rege-Jean Page Copy Share Image
President Obama held a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. In response, Republicans said, 'It's even… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they… — Clive Ponting Copy Share Image
We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in… — Shaukat Aziz Copy Share Image
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher. — Liu Jingmin Copy Share Image
The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing… — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“When we decided to marry, we had two ceremonies - one was more bureaucratic for the sake of the Swiss authorities,then a church service in Florence, and I wrote the music for the church service. The challenge in that was that Iman's [Abdulmajid] family are Muslim and mine are Protestant. I had to…” quote by David Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d6b/david-bowie-508_authority_when-we-decided-to-marry-we-had-two-cere_1059978.jpg)
