Quotes About Ritual

Bread is for us a kind of successor to the motherly breast, and it has been over the centuries responsible for billions of sighs of satisfaction.

Grandmother Hannah comes to me at Pesach and when I am lighting the sabbath candles. The sweet wine in the cup has her breath.... a little winter no spring can melt.

Meself I like a breath of air before I go to bed, same as I like a bite o' cheese or something before I take me teeth out.

It seems there was a custom in Ireland at this time of showing obeisance to your king by sucking his nipples. No nipples, you could not be a king.

I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

The kitchen is a sacred space.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

The sharing of food is like breaking bread, it's very symbolic.

Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

When we develop reverence for food and the miracle of transformation inherent in it, just the simple act of eating creates a ritual of celebration.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.

The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.

So I'm at the wailing wall, standing there like a moron, with my harpoon.

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.

Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.

From time to time,' Turner explained, most people seek to discard their customary clothing and status markers and 'don the liberating masks of a liminal masquerade.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

My uncle Jimmy took liver salts twice a day for 40 years. He died on Sunday, was buried Wednesday and the following Friday they had to go to the cemetery to beat his liver to death with a stick.

My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.