Ceremony Quotes

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My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies. — Jelly Roll Morton
The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window… — John Cheever
Secularism is a religion, a religion that is understood. It has no mysteries, no mumblings, no priests, no ceremonies, no falsehoods, no miracles, and no… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than… — Phil Cousineau
We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness. — Sakyong Mipham
It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life.… — Jeff Fenech
The wedding is the chief ceremony of the middle-class mythology, and it functions as the official entrÃ©e of the spouses to their middle-class status. This… — Germaine Greer
The aggressive and quite illogical idea of a single religion for all mankind, a religion universal by the very force of its narrowness, one set… — Sri Aurobindo
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon,… — Al Franken
The Talmud is to this day the circulating heart's blood of the Jewish religion. Whatever laws, customs or ceremonies we observe-whether we are orthodox, conservative,… — Herman Wouk
A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutual joinder of your hands, Arrested by the holy close of lips, Strength'ned by the interchangement… — William Shakespeare
This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished… — Chiwetel Ejiofor
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined. — Ambrose Bierce
No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of… — Theodosius Dobzhansky
In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues… — Iyanla Vanzant
The Hall of Fame ceremonies are on the thirty-first and thirty-second of July. — Ralph Kiner
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied… — Fulton J. Sheen
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. — Vincent Canby
This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. — Stanford Moore
When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun… — Galarrwuy Yunupingu

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