Ceremony Quotes

279 Ceremony quotes by 236 unique authors

In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything… — Okakura Kakuzo
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and… — Miguel de Cervantes
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man,… — Kurt Vonnegut
President Obama held a ceremony at the White House to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. In response, Republicans said, 'It's even worse than we… — Conan O'Brien
The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons. — George C. Scott
I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute… — Jonathan Pryce
No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of… — James E. Talmage
A film about the love generation - the birthday party of the Aquarian Age showing actual ceremonies to make Lucifer rise. Lucifer is the Light… — Kenneth Anger
Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a… — Max Lucado
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed,… — E. O. Wilson
Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in… — Unknown Author
To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary and spontaneous instead of a compulsory routine is to make an unflattering estimate… — Robert H. Jackson
When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth… — Richard M. Nixon
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. — Unknown Author
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government. — Confucius
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 entrée 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

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