Best Ritual Qoutes
445 Ritual quotes by 380 unique authors
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For some obscure reason, some authorities seem bent on making the drinking of wine a ritual more complicated than chess. They have succeeded in inhibiting…
— Craig Claiborne
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One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes…
— Layne Redmond
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I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this…
— Mary Ellen Mark
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Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all…
— Roger Angell
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Ritual disposal of the dead speaks clearly of an awareness of death, and thus an awareness of self.
— Richard Leakey
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Sociology and anthropology are not disciplines which take easily to situations where people are able to live out their fantasies, not just in the symbolic…
— Jonathan Raban
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I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible…
— Jack Dee
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A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.
— Tea Obreht
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In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.
— Scott Cunningham
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What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food…
— David O. Russell
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Ritual murder is referred to in court files which are located in Rome. There are pictures in it which show that in 23 cases, the…
— Julius Streicher
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Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a certain type of…
— Frederick Lenz
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Belief transcends ritual, structure and societal expectation. It is an enlivening, intensely personal core to our being. Our way of being.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't…
— Christian Marclay
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I had this whole ritual with my mother making the bed with me inside it so I would be invisible.
— Ahmet Zappa
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The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in…
— William Greider
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Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion…
— Bernie Siegel
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Like most people who smoked umpteen cigarettes a day, I tasted only the first one. The succeeding umpteen minus one were a compulsive ritual which…
— Clive James
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Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according…
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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In preindustrial cultures leisure is scarcely a burden or a "problem" because it is built into the ritual and ground plan of life for which…
— David Riesman
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We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, behaviours, beliefs, rituals.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I was deliciously happy filming 'True Blood.' I even kept all the scripts in my office, which I never do with any script. Although I…
— Michelle Forbes
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Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a…
— Siobhan Fahey
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For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our…
— Maggie Gallagher
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Now that I have a 16-month-old son, my weekend ritual has changed - but it's better than ever. We get up early and go for…
— Connie Britton
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