Quotes About Rite

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

Going to Goa was a rite of passage for me, because it's where I learnt that you could mix fish with really strong flavours.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

I think it's a rite of passage that the minute you land in Japan, you have to go to a karaoke bar.

You see the guys in the Ribera jackets and it's really a rite of passage to be able to work in Japan, come over here and perform for the fans here, and then come over to Ribera Steakhouse and get that jacket.

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.

These caves are the original men's rite sanctuaries where the boys became no longer their mothers' sons but their fathers' sons.

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 of passage.

Love is the Creator's greatest invention and, as St. Ambrose said, that is especially true when our entire spirit and body are involved in this extraordinary rite, which is after all the rite of our own birth and of our descent.

man becomes a soft, flabby, weak creature. This is especially true in a privileged society like that found in the United States, where a metrosexual will squeal like a little bitch if the Vietnamese lady giving him his manicure cuts too close to his cuticle. Not only will such a pathetic creature be unable to stand even the mildest rite of passage, but if he even witnesses one, he will have to undergo years of therapy to cure his posttraumatic stress.

Apparently when Australian Aboriginal males reach adolescence, they are left in the outback for up to six months to fend for themselves. Forced to survive on their own wits. It is a rite of passage. The same was true for Peter. He needed to survive two months in the outback of the United States. Prove that he could survive cut off in the field.

Graham's testimony reminds us of something that everyone present, including Lincoln, understood about the match – namely, that this was a rite of passage; that as a newcomer Lincoln was being tested to see what he was made of.

Mignini's proposed motive—that the murder was an occult rite—may seem far-fetched to American readers, but it was no surprise to those who knew Mignini. That had also been his theory of motive in the Monster of Florence case.

The word t?l?t? means rite of growing up, becoming complete.

Nor did Kevin go, "Ew-w," when he pulled his penis out and it was brown and smelly, and that, too, Guy considered a rite de passage .

I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?

Every missed rite of passage leads to a new rigidification of the personality.

THE GREAT RITE – at the end of each Sabbat Rite, the ancient ones had to "Earth" the power that had been raised within the Circle so that the power raised would not remain in the atmosphere afterwards. They earthed the power by committing the "Sex Act," which brought them down from the mystical to the material level. Each Sabbat Rite ended with this act and it was called "The Great Rite.

Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.