“He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.” — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
I knew that I would speak in the language of the vanquished No more durable than old customs, family rituals, Christmas tinsel,… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part… — Ingrid Michaelson Copy Share Image
Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I've begun to recognize myself as a Catholic writer because my whole notion of the image, of symbol, of art and what… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
“His father, that austere, unfeeling and untutored man, had insisted his sons polish their boots every evening. Flett has learned to be… — Carol Shields Copy Share Image
Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely,… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
To get to New Orleans you don't pass through anywhere else. That geographical location, being aloof, lets it hold onto the ritual… — Allen Toussaint Copy Share Image
Sycamore trees were held to be sacred in ancient Egypt and are the first trees represented in ancient art. The sycamore, also,… — Larry Gates Copy Share Image
The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
This is another thing which I really like investigating in my novels: what is it that makes an intimate society, that makes… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. — Jonathan Kozol Copy Share Image
Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
What we need to be assured of is not that we possess an excellent system of doctrine and ritual, but that the… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my… — Kelly Jones Copy Share Image
“Witches do not need to fix problems. Witches fix the enegery AROUND problems. Then the problems fix themselves.” — Dacha Avelin Copy Share Image
Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
No masters or kings when the ritual begins [making love] There is no sweeter innocence than our gentle sin In the madness… — Hozier Copy Share Image
The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The most meaningful movies I can make are the ones where parents can share them with their children and children can look… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns. — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
We can love religion as we need rituals, but The Holy Spirit is a bird, free to fly and land where it… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
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