Ceremony Quotes

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

Is everybody in?... Is everybody in?... Is everybody in? The ceremony is about to begin...

Personal relationship with God is not all just the ceremony and not the religion of doing something because you were told that's what you have to do; it's relationships, it's like we have relationships with our families, with our friends, with our loved ones.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

Ceremony is all backbone.

It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

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.

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look back. I don't allow myself to be influenced by people who don't know me. I'm incredibly thin-skinned. When you wander through this life as an exposed nerve, you have to make sure you remain insulated to a certain extent.

Аs I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible