Funerals are important rituals. They don't just recognize that a life has ended; they recognize that a life was lived. — Aaron Eckhart Copy Share Image
I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it,… — Kiefer Sutherland Copy Share Image
The best trick I learned was when a priest came to me when I was an altar boy and said, "Always, when… — Ragnar Kjartansson Copy Share Image
It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day. — Brad Henry Copy Share Image
“Every culture has some ritual for joining two people together and making them stay that way, and ours is giving tax breaks.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I think we have to go through a lot of rituals in order to fill the gap of meaning in our lives. — Zal Batmanglij Copy Share Image
Eventually, ritual was developed as a means of contacting and utilizing the energy within humans as well as in the nature world. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you… — Del Suggs Copy Share Image
In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and… — Kent Nerburn 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
To criticize one's country is to do it a service… Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written… — Leslie Ludy Copy Share Image
I had a very simple life growing up in the farm country outside of Perugia, and biscotti and warm milk with a… — Brunello Cucinelli Copy Share Image
That is the problem with comedy in India. Spoofing sells. Come up with original comedy about the hilarious nation we are, with… — Cyrus Broacha Copy Share Image
The skaters a lot of times do their own hair and makeup before they compete. That was always kind of a ritual...that… — Kristi Yamaguchi Copy Share Image
Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you… — Ketch Secor Copy Share Image
The recurring theme of all religions is a sympathy, empathy, connection, capacity between the human and the divine - that we were… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Religions have found that if you behave in a certain way, if you sort of perform certain rituals that expand your mind… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Henceforth, whilst there are a great many theories and models proposed as to how, or why, magic works (based on subtle energies,… — Phil Hine Copy Share Image
Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
“I'm back in the basement of the Ascension Catholic Church, Francisco. And Little Suzie is here. She's lying on an alter, and… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
The Mackenzie had never met folk so poor in story and song and legends, and it moved him to a pity that… — S.M. Stirling Copy Share Image
He spoke of very simple things- that it is right for a gull to fly, that freedom is the very nature of… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I wonder how, among the Fremont, mothers and daughters shared their world. Did they walk side by side along the lake edge?… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Human bonding rituals often involve a great deal of talking, and dancing, and crying. -Worf — Star Trek Copy Share Image
I believe in courtesy, the ritual by which we avoid hurting other people's feelings by satisfying our own egos. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . .… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
This is criterion by which the Church is to be judged, not by the forms of its doctrine or ritual, but by… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out. — Christina Baldwin Copy Share Image
Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
“He crowned her with roses, girded her with verbena, in the costume of an amorous holocaust.” — Josephin Peladan Copy Share Image
I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering. — John Green Copy Share Image
Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Ritual is important to us as human beings. It ties us to our traditions and our histories. — Miller Williams Copy Share Image
Even feigning surprise, pretending it was unexpected and saying a ritual thanks, is surely wiser than just expecting everything so carelessly. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals. — Randa Abdel-Fattah Copy Share Image
I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
