What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of… — Rod Lurie Copy Share Image
“Round a corner, turn a page, get born again, leave one class for the next, trade-in one school for another; take one… — J. Earp Copy Share Image
I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better… — KT Tunstall Copy Share Image
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused,… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“What is this Christmas?” Wing asked. Orro turned from the stove. “It’s the rite of passage during which the young males of… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I come from a place where to go to prison is like a rite of passage. It's something that you gain respect… — Ashley Walters Copy Share Image
The one thing I didn't have to do any research on is what I would do for one of my daughters if… — Bruce Willis Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of… — Mary Ellen Mark Copy Share Image
Worst audition experiences were definitely for commercials... which I don't tell someone to not do it. I think it's maybe a rite… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
“It was a rite of passage each year at Manhattan Life Insurance Company. The golden doors would open every summer to a… — Phil Wohl Copy Share Image
Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
“...man becomes a soft, flabby, weak creature. This is especially true in a privileged society like that found in the United States,… — Dave Nichols Copy Share Image
I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school… — Joe Dempsie Copy Share Image
I feel like similar to a rom-com, superhero material is, in a way, a rite of passage. Of course, it'd be so… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant… — Sarah Wayne Callies Copy Share Image
Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was… — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“I dont tell him I hate him yet. Maybe I never will. I dont know what good it would do to let… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Tony Hseih, CEO of Zappos, helped disrupt the retail space by emphasizing mastery, making the “pursuit of growth and learning” central to… — Peter H. Diamandis Copy Share Image
“Caeden grabbed my hand and grinned like a little boy in a candy shop. “Carnival time!” He drug me from the car… — Micalea Smeltzer Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
In the deaf community, we give people name signs based on their quirks or characteristics. So it means you can't really give… — Lauren Ridloff Copy Share Image
“...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
What bothers me is when music becomes entertainment. Of course, music is supposed to be entertaining, but go back to any period… — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
“If you read Rite of Passage and enjoy yourself, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope it gets you of. On the… — Alexei Panshin Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Your pain is a divine rite of passage through which you will be reborn as a being of strength, wisdom and purpose.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.” — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end… — Sara Nelson 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
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
“You cannot be a hero unless you are prepared to give up everything; there is no ascent to the heights without a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
