Quotes About Ritual

Mezclábamos la sangre fresca con leche y un poco de orina y se la dábamos a beber a los enfermos; así se repusieron y al cabo de dos semanas estaban en condiciones de emprender el camino.

For Isaac's protection he had a blue Turkish evil eye and a painted tin hand of Fatima hanging from the bedpost; a candle was always lit on his chest of drawers, next to Hebrew and Christian Bibles and a jar of holy water that one of the domestic staff had brought from the Shrine of Saint Jude.

Comenzaban por hacer una fogata en el patio con leña y carbón. Encima se colgaba de un trípode una olla de hierro negra por el uso, donde se echaban los ingredientes, en proporción de cuatro tazas de leche por una de azúcar, se aromatizaba con dos palitos de vainilla y la cáscara de un limón, se hervía pacientemente durante horas, revolviendo de vez en cuando con una larguísima cuchara de madera.

Vertieron un poco de sangre en el suelo, arrancaron los corazones, los ahumaron con tabaco, luego los partieron en trocitos y los repartieron entre los toquis y loncos; así comulgaron entre ellos y con la Tierra. —Señor Ngenechén, ésta es la pura sangre de los animales, sangre tuya, sangre que nos das para que tengamos vida y podamos movernos, Padre Dios, por eso con esta sangre estamos rogándote que nos bendigas

Para un chino ilustre el evento más importante en la vida era su propio funeral.

Me será muy difícil vengar a todos lo que tienen que ser vengados, porque mi venganza no sería más que otra parte del mismo rito inexorable. Quiero pensar que mi oficio es la vida y que mi misión es no prolongar el odio, sino solo llenar estas paginas [...]

Sticking to a routine helps you get in the zone for the match. I always put my left shinpad on before my right. When I go out onto the pitch, I take three hops on my left leg - but I don't know why I started. I must have seen Messi do it or something.

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar, a custom which is still continued.

Custom is the law of fools.

When I get home at night, I always have a soak in the tub before changing into my dressing gown and slippers.

A week before Thanksgiving, my mother bought the turkey, frozen. Then she froze it some more. Then she let it thaw and cleaned it - and I mean really cleaned it, because nobody wanted a 'dirty bird.' She salt-and-peppered the turkey, buttered, paprika-ed, and nominally stuffed it.

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.

If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

It was great fun being part of a TV series that I'd been a fan of for five years. I've been watching it every single Monday when with my wife. It was like a ritual - every Monday night on HBO Nordic, we would watch 'Game of Thrones' together.

This is embarrassing and personal, but once a month, since I was twelve years old, I go to my favorite jewelry store and try on my dream ring.

I still put my pants on the same way. I still walk on my pool twice a day.

Between 1965 and 1980, my mother, Frances Junod, served cutlets of pale flesh - mostly veal and chicken, though sometimes pork - to my father, my brother and sister, and me at least twice a week.

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

To the one who does the butchering, eating will always be a sacrament. The flesh in the dome of your mouth, your flesh, this fallen world.