Quotes About Ritual

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

When I was 10 years old, we'd pick out a cow and boom! They'd hit it in the head with a hammer, lift it up by the back legs, and skin it in front of us. Then I'd take the head home and make soup

I'm very superstitious. I come from a family that's big on not painting the nursery until the baby is home.

In ancient Boeotia brides were carried home in vehicles whose wheels were burned at the door, in token, that they would never again be needed.

Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories. It's about sharing. It's about honesty. It's about identity.

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we use them?

My family has a Christmas tradition: Every year, they kill my mom.

Because he was English and that's what the English do under stress: they drink tea.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.

The first domesticated animal was the scapegoat.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

Nothing is stronger than habit.

No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked.

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

But it wouldn't be the same if it wasn't Easter,' said Jim. 'Indeed and it wouldn't. Are we straight, so?' 'We're straight as a rush.' Doyler spat on his hand and Jim did likewise and their palms rubbed in the smear. 'The crawl it is,' said Doyler and he slipped from the raft. Before he joined him and the sea would wash it away, Jim sniffed his wetting palm. A private smell. Like leather, bodily, raw.

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

ritual del oryoki.

The house rule was no Christmas tree 'til after Name Day. These were two separate life events, to be celebrated on their own merits.

The ritual dance was a dromenon, a thing to be done, not a thing to be looked at.

But sacrifice does not mean "death" at all.