Quotes About Ceremony And Ritual

#1. Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

Ada Yonath

#2. 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 its own species.

Theodosius Dobzhansky

#3. I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

Peter Hollingworth

#4. Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Laozi

#5. Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Erica Jong

#6. Why am I talking about all this? Who am I talking to? I send out these words, these thoughts, simply because it is time. Time for what, I do not know and it does not matter because it is what I want and that is always reason enough for me.

Christopher Pike

#7. When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

Patricia Schroeder

#8. My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one.

Ezra Cornell

#9. For ritual allows those who cannot will themselves out of the secular to perform the spiritual, as dancing allows the tongue-tied man a ceremony of love.

Andre Dubus

#10. Fashion definitely has the power to change the world.

Abbey Clancy

#11. I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Florence King

#12. The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.

William Shakespeare

#13. Always remember to give yourself the kindness, compassion and consideration you give to others.

Miya Yamanouchi

#14. When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?

Muriel Barbery

#15. Do small things with great Love

Mother Teresa

#16. There is no ceremony, no initiation ritual, no secret hand-shake. All you need to be a writer is to write.

M. Kirin

#17. Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.

Terry Pratchett

#18. The outer affects the inner.

A. J. Jacobs

#19. We are better able to study our neighbors than ourselves, and their actions than our own.

Aristotle.

#20. Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from observing the lives of very lost people.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in.

Ariane Mnouchkine

#22. 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

#23. Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony ... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

Rob Sheffield

#24. The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.

Kelley Armstrong

#25. I liked the ceremony, the ritual of preparing cocaine, as much as doing it. I did it for a year, loved it, then stopped. Now I feel the same way about cooking.

Kiefer Sutherland

#26. Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.

Del Suggs

#27. The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.

C.S. Lewis

#28. Some might not know that 'What's Happening' was the television version of 'Cooly High.' When I went on the audition, it was an audition for exactly that: the TV version of the movie.

Haywood Nelson

#29. 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 is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.

Okakura Kakuzo

#30. A big part of country music is a way of life, at least from my standpoint. That's how I craft my music from my own life experiences.

Luke Bryan

#31. The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.

John Steinbeck

#32. The mother of a trophy wife is not automatically a trophy mother-in-law.

John Grisham