Ceremony Quotes

279 Ceremony quotes by 236 unique authors

Even the most understated ceremony involves a certain respect for ritual and pageantry. No one plays more of a significant role than the bride's attendants. — Vera Wang
Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct… — Voltaire
Is everybody in? Is everybody in? Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin. The entertainment for this evening is not new, you've seen… — Jim Morrison
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one… — M.F.K. Fisher
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon… — William Butler Yeats
When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a… — Rabindranath Tagore
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy… — Ursula K. Le Guin
As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head… — Megan Whalen Turner
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated… — Elizabeth Gilbert
When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. — Cormac McCarthy
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood. — Pablo Neruda
How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born? — William Butler Yeats
Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs… — Rick Moody
Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has… — Jim Butcher
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible — Mervyn Peake
Halt," said the elegant diplomat, "when you asked me to marry you, did you think we could just sneak off to a glade in the… — John Flanagan
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds… — J R Ward
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after… — Michael Cunningham
I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony… — Charlaine Harris
And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who… — Suzanne Collins

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