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
Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a… — John Flanagan Copy Share Image
America's new tea lovers are the people who have forced the tea trade to wake up. Elsewhere, tea has meant a certain… — James Norwood Pratt Copy Share Image
If the gospel of Jesus Christ is not at the center of a wedding ceremony, it is likely not going to be… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
When you watch a tea ceremony, every single movement, every single gesture is very calculated. It's very precise, and it's all protocol.… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
On top of the insult of destroying the geographic places we call home, the chain stores also destroyed people's place in the… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The manly pride of the Romans, content with substantial power, had left to the vanity of the East the forms and ceremonies… — Edward Gibbon 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
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I like to cook for my friends. It is an act of love because in cooking you can create so many plates… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
“Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power… — Duong Van Minh Copy Share Image
I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
An invitation to be a bridesmaid is an honor which cannot be declined without some very good reason. Our idea of one… — Alice-Leone Moats Copy Share Image
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
