Ceremony Quotes · Page 3

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

— Kurt Vonnegut

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

— William Shakespeare

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

— William Wycherley

If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place

— Floyd Red Crow Westerman

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.

— Richard Lerner

“Ceremony-the wine of human existence" - Morris R. Cohen”

— Barbara Jonas

I listened to 'En la Ceremony' and had always wished it had some flamenco guitar.

— Jim James

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic

— Bernard Wolfe Limbo

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their…

— David Icke

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

— Sherman Alexie

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

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

There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor…

— Josiah Strong

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

— Elton John

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy…

— William Butler Yeats

I remain detached and distant, but it is under my eyes and my orders that the work of art must create itself.…

— Yves Klein

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church,…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

This is a big surprise I don't agree with the concept of award ceremonies, but I'm prepared to make an exception for…

— Banksy

“Last summer we had eight people in the [Christian] congregation who danced four different sun dances. Of course the missionaries have said…

— Anonymous

I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration…

— Mike Pence

When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if…

— Mary MacLane

We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the…

— Julie Roberts

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

Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a…

— Dally Messenger

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

... over two hundred women, apparently at their own request, were sealed as wives to Joseph Smith after his death in special…

— Fawn M. Brodie

To switch lads and lassies from quickie ceremonies back to the catered works in to-be-worm-only-once white dresses, the [wedding] garment producers have…

— Malcolm Forbes

Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to,…

— J.R. Ward

And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect, that private men enjoy! And what have kings, that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save…

— William Shakespeare

MARRIAGE, That ceremony which makes more strange bedfellows than politics;

— Nikhil Saluja

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

— Graeme Le Saux

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

— Lord Chesterfield

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

— David Letterman

“the Zie threw a ceremony for each sylph. Drinks flowed”

— C.J. Pinard

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

— Imelda Staunton

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

— Confucius

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

— Anonymous