Before I left home for drama school in England, my father took me outside one night and told me that wherever I… — Roma Downey Copy Share Image
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do”… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“If the “Cartesian moment” is that moment when as Francis Barker has asserted the self can be conceived of without the body,… — Lori Branch Copy Share Image
As humans we need to bond and we need ritual - and that's what catchphrases represent. — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
I believe faith is a human universal. We are endowed at birth with nascent capacities for faith. How these capacities are activated… — James W. Fowler Copy Share Image
The human person, whose definition serves as the touchstone according to which good must be distinguished from evil, is considered as sacred,… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from… — Kajol Copy Share Image
The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a book. If I… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
In June 2002, airport security searched Al Gore. There's a lot not to like about Gore, but he's not a terrorist. Gore… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Truth is not over there, wherever over there is. Truth is neither housed in religious rituals nor secret doctrines, nor in a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
There are for starters, grandeur and silence, pure water and clean air. There is also the gift of distance ... the chance… — Linn Thomas Copy Share Image
The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion. — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
