Ceremony Quotes

279 Ceremony quotes by 236 unique authors

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
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe… — Margaret Atwood
Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God. — Alfred Hershey
Big dress, cocktails, party - I love that. It is my work, but my work allow me to have glamour, to wear beautiful and amazing… — Paz Vega
Salvation is not a prayer you pray in a one-time ceremony and then move on from; salvation is a posture of repentance and faith that… — J. D. Greear
It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth. — Dennis Banks
President David O. McKay (1873-1970) observed that too many couples come to "marriage looking upon the marriage ceremony as the end of courtship instead of… — David O. McKay
There are three sorts of pleasures which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Finding pleasure in the discriminating study of ceremonies and music, finding… — Confucius
KISS, n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss." It is supposed to signify, in a general way, some kind of… — Ambrose Bierce
The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events… — J. G. Ballard
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. — Thomas Love Peacock
DUEL, n. A formal ceremony preliminary to reconciliation of two enemies. Great skill is necessary to its satisfactory observance; if awkwardly performed . . .… — Ambrose Bierce
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it.... No amount of rites, rituals, ceremonies, worship, meditation,… — Meher Baba
Great drama, like the energy implicit in every atom, is eternally around and within us, but liberated only by coincidence, ceremony, creativity, periods reaching completion,… — Robert Grudin
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height… — Confucius
True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is. — Ridley Pearson

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