Ceremony and ritual are like a warm, fuzzy coat to the Brits. It feels good to put it on. — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and… — Gillian Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Steam Lodge Song of the Sun Dance Ceremony: A voice, I will send. Hear me! The land All over, A voice I… — Frances Densmore Copy Share Image
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during… — Tom Jones Copy Share Image
In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really,… — Okakura Kakuzo Copy Share Image
In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like… — Marco Pierre White Copy Share Image
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity… — Phil Cousineau Copy Share Image
Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
Even under the best circumstances, speaking at your own wedding ceremony is a high pressure endeavor. What even constitutes a vow? I… — Josh Gondelman Copy Share Image
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so… — John Locke Copy Share Image
China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is also a trait of the organizations that I call lodges - everything from corporate cultures to religious sects. Their bonding… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
In 1986, Gloria Steinem wrote that if men got periods, they 'would brag about how long and how much': that boys would… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation.… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
“Together they will spend a happy hour seated side by side..., while Ivy's tender hand guides Duffy's as he traces out laboriously,… — John Banville 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
MARRIAGE CEREMONY, a rite which a clergyman should perform at no charge -- don't they say that you shouldn't profit by other… — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to… — Victoria Woodhull Copy Share Image
Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense,… — Augustus William Hare Copy Share Image
“I like the idea of a Vibrator Ceremony. After we’re done burying them, we could make canapés and drink champagne. It’s a… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
The only time there's gonna be a transgender bathroom in the White House is during a gay rights ceremony. You know as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“When people die, cultures — African, Klassikan, or otherwise — follow rituals, written and unwritten. But beyond the customs, it is your… — Don Santo Copy Share Image
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you… — Brian Stokes Mitchell Copy Share Image
Ceremony keeps up things: 'tis like a penny glass to a rich spirit, or some excellent water; without it the water were… — John Selden Copy Share Image
