We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up… — Rennie Harris Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I looked at Lucas with the pang that a parent feels when he knows his child will be hurt and that it's… — James Lee Burke Copy Share Image
When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of… — Laozi Copy Share Image
To abandon your shield is the basest of crimes; nor may a man thus disgraced be present at the sacred rites, or… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of… — John Stott Copy Share Image
The dinner table is a rite of civilization and we need to participate in that to keep our families together, to keep… — Alice Waters Copy Share Image
O fools, awake! The rites ye sacred hold Are but a cheat contrived by men of old Who lusted after wealth and… — Al-Maʿarri 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
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
I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another,… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
They say funerals are not for the dead but for the living. Those rites are what permit you to move on, so… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
The puritanical potentialities of science have never been forecast. If it evolves a body of organized rites, and is established as a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
For Death must be somewhere in a society; if it is no longer (or less intensely) in religion, it must be elsewhere;… — Roland Barthes 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
The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
JOSS-STICKS- Small sticks burned by the Chinese in their pagan tomfoolery, in imitation of certain sacred rites of our holy religion. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil… — Dave Grohl 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
I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that… — James Marsden Copy Share Image
No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I… — Olivia Williams Copy Share Image
The first time I thought about attempting a body suspension was after watching a documentary on rites-of-passage ceremonies from other cultures. I… — Criss Angel Copy Share Image
I had written a book called "Boston Boy" some years ago, and that took me from the time I could speak, I… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a… — Richard Morris Copy Share Image
I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I… — Shailene Woodley Copy Share Image
I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater Copy Share Image
When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and… — Julian of Norwich Copy Share Image
Of all the doctors I have known, psychoanalysts, a congregation of lay priests with bible, rites, and the faithful, constitute the most… — Antonio Lobo Antunes 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
Music is the most natural thing in the world. When we go to a gig and we all like it and we… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
