Rite Quotes

168 quotes by 148 authors

Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong. — Bob Hope
Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite… — Danny Glover
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
Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of sins. Water-baptism is… — John Stott
Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral — Arthur C. Clarke
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike… — Theodor Adorno
We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning.… — Hamza Yusuf
For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.'… — Linda Sanchez
Mythology is the study of whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.… — Robert Graves
I suppose, I hoped, by setting a particularly brutal ancient rite in the present and in my own village to shock the story's readers with… — Shirley Jackson
No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure,… — Joseph Campbell
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
Without the letters of condolence, telegrams of congratulations, and occasional postcards, the friendship of a separated friend is not a social reality. It has no… — Mary Douglas
When many people are killed, they should be mourned and lamented. Those who are victorious in war should follow the rites of funerals. — Laozi
The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings... Much use… — Albert Mackey
A fav'rite has no friend! — Thomas Gray
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
To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing. — Lance Henriksen
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
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. — Jamake Highwater

Who Wrote These Rite Quotes

148 authors contributed a total of 168 Rite Quotes, led by these top contributors: