Quotes About Ritual

Zik spits into the dirt in from of home plate, his own little ritual. He digs in and grits his teeth, snarling at the Heat. Psychology. Baseball's all about psychology.

The word "cult" comes from the Latin phrase cultus deorum, which literally means "the care of the gods." A cultic act is any ritualized practice that is done out of reverence to or worship of the gods. Such activities lay at the heart of pagan religions. Doctrines and ethics did not.

Once I've received the Eucharist, then I'm prepared to go out and play.

My Shabbat dinner is not to be reckoned with.

My mum always used to buy a record every Friday.

Every night, I say goodnight to the kids like Rajesh Khanna, muah muah, two kisses, say goodnight to my wife, and every night, I'd go to the recreation room and watch cricket with two old men.

Ahead of going on the red carpet, in the morning, I'll put on a clay mask to prepare.

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of the self, followed by the construction of a new one.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

Second City should create a secret handshake, and when you graduate, you have to know it.

I wear my dad's cross. It's very important to me. I hang it in my locker before each game.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

I watched 'Hey Hey' religiously every Saturday night like every other single human that I knew.

Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes — a fact which is recognized in the extra ration issued to old-age pensioners.

la cérémonie des livrées.

We might think of a story as a kind of ceremony, like the Catholic Mass, or a coronation, or a wedding. We understand the heart of the Mass to be communion, the heart of a coronation to be the moment the crown goes on, the heart of the wedding to be the exchanging of the vows. All of those other parts (the processionals, the songs, the recitations, and so on) will be felt as beautiful and necessary to the extent that they serve the heart of the ceremony.

Sacrifice is nothing other than the production of sacred things.

The lover strips the beloved of her identity no less than the blood-stained priest his human or animal victim.

The ritual of witchcraft is the ritual of an oppressed people.

Or from even further back, from as far back as she could remember, there rose the fascination she had felt as a little girl every time she saw her grandfather shaving: he would sit down, usually around seven in the morning, after a frugal breakfast, and with a serious air make up his lather with a very soft brush in a bowl of very hot water, a lather so thick and white and firm that even after more than seventy-five years it still made her mouth water.