Ritual Quotes · Page 7

“a marriage is made not in ritual or in words but in the living of it”

— Diana Gabaldon

“What about Anna and Megan? The ritual is different.”

— L.J. Ross

Rituals are comforting; rituals combat loneliness.

— John Irving

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual.

— Miller Williams

“In our deeds we can structure our lives so that the simple things that we do everyday, from bathing to cooking, have…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking…

— Reza Aslan

“Dancing should transcend hobby, it should be a ritual, a meeting point between mortals and immortals.”

— Paul Bamikole

“For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.”

— Bill Drummond

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that…

— Joan D. Chittister

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

I don't really have a ritual. On the car rides over to the racetrack, I just make sure that the right songs…

— Darrell Wallace Jr

We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that…

— Abraham Verghese

Placing a wedge of lime in the neck of a Corona bottle helps sell those beers. And where did that ritual come…

— Martin Lindstrom

I really like the ritual of shaving. I like getting the perfect brush and finding the right sandalwood soap. The act of…

— Chris Pine

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals…

— Tom Lehrer

When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking…

— Robert Fulghum

Jewish cantors employ a peculiar art and method of singing in their delivery. They are unexcelled in the art of covering the…

— Enrico Caruso

“Purification and redemption are such recurrent themes in ritual because there is a clear and ubiquitous need for them: we all do…

— Susan Cain

You know, when a president is about to leave office, most of the time most people are dying for him to go…

— Anonymous

The idea of having dinner together every day with your family removes the pressure from trying to explain everything. You tell us…

— Mario Batali

I believe that the place where an animal dies is a sacred one. There is a need to bring ritual into the…

— Temple Grandin

“[The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him.…

— Peter Enns

To plot is to live. […] We start out lives in chaos, in babble. As we surge up into the world, we…

— Don DeLillo

All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to…

— Colin Powell

“I mention these ritual dances, this ritual drama, this bridge between art and life, because it is things like these that I…

— Jane Ellen Harrison

“The gestures poems make are the same as the gestures of ritual injunction — curse; exorcism; prayer; underlying everything perhaps, the attempt…

— Frank Bidart

Ritual and myth are like seed crystals of new patterns that can eventually reshape culture around them.

— Starhawk

My morning ritual is to get up and feed the dogs, take my daughter to school, and come home.

— Richard Dean Anderson

“Rituals bring people together, allowing them to focus on what is important and to acknowledge significant events or accomplishments.”

— Luis Gonçalves

“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.”

— Dimitris Xygalatas

Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.

— Doreen Valiente

When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from…

— Kajol

When speech is divorced from speaker and word from meaning, what is left is just ritual, language as ritual.

— Ellen Goodman

One needs the invented, the spontaneous, the impromptu for ritual. Skepticism, that grain of salt, is inappropriate.

— E. M. Broner

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

— Phillip Adams

As humans we need to bond and we need ritual - and that's what catchphrases represent.

— Maureen Lipman

The thing most consistently on my desk as I write is a cat - a different one at different times of the…

— Sarah Addison Allen

“I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.”

— Clarice Lispector

Cooking meat over a fire is one of the most stirring of those ritual acts, usually performed outdoors, on special occasions, in…

— Michael Pollan