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
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
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
“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
I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they… — DJ Qualls Copy Share Image
Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“Fiction has been maligned for centuries as being "false," "untrue," yet good fiction provides more truth about the world, about life, and… — Clark Zlotchew 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
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply… — Linda Sanchez Copy Share Image
It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of… — Bill Shorten Copy Share Image
“Calf pain is not a rite of passage; it is mostly a wrong of technique. If you bend the knees more and… — Ken Bob Saxton Copy Share Image
“So it was a crossroads summer, when the universe seemed to stand perilously still like an egg wobbling on a precipice, a… — Sol Luckman 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
As an actor, I relish and delight in doing things that I'm not necessarily the demographic for. This is a demographic that… — Ray Stevenson Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
“Back in the pens, once the herd was gathered, the men gingerly and methodically guided the calves into a separate gated area.… — Ree Drummond Copy Share Image
“So Oz finally became home; the imagined world became the actual world, as it does for us all, because the truth is… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
You see the guys in the Ribera jackets and it's really a rite of passage to be able to work in Japan,… — Big E 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
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
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
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
I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage… — Sean Penn Copy Share Image
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we… — Drew Barrymore 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
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
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
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
“...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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“...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
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
“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
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
