Quotes About Rituals

Tradition, meaning, and relevance

holidays were important to us in ways that might be inconceivable to people whose sole conception of Christmas had been based on frantic excursions to gigantic chain stores. We lived by the seasons now. Our survival depended on it. And we marked the seasons by frequent holiday celebrations, fetes, levees, balls, and solemn days of remembrance.

Human sacrifices?' said Laimner. 'On a civilised world like this? This is the thirty-first millennium, not primitive prehistory!

She wouldn't send anyone, nor would she take anyone with her. She organizes witches' Sabbaths every full moon,' explained Philippa tartly.

I grew up in a very cultural household, but part of our culture is that we don't really take photos.

I think I'm a lot like other moms out there who feel like if we don't have the pecan pie we have every year, then it just won't be Christmas.

When I grew up, we always had our chickens, and we ate our eggs, and we ate our chickens. The family always had a pig, and we would kill it at Christmas and eat it for three or four months afterwards.

We read a lot from the Satanic bible. It's not quite the opposite of the normal bible - a lot of its principles are just about being yourself, if you want to do something you do it, if you wanna have affairs you can. But we never hold daily rituals or anything.

We know they took their look very seriously - tweezers and combs were found in Viking graves. The warriors would file their teeth down to make them pointy, use kohl to make their eyes look darker, and red pigment on their teeth to make them look bloody.

As for my haircare rituals, I don't wash it every day, and I also let my hair dry naturally. My hair is bleached, so I'm mindful of not putting too much heat on it.

I wear the same socks after I wash them, and I like to eat the same meal the morning before a game.

Watch Brandon run across the field," Bird said. He made a beeline for the pitcher's mound, did a little leap over it, and ran to the dugout. "He does that every time," Bird said. "Why?" "Says it brings him luck. He is so superstitious. He won't wash his game socks as long as the team is winning." "Ew! And he didn't want to work in a fertilizer plant?" "I know. Go figure.

You have to trust someone before you can have rituals with them.

Today's habits, rituals, and routines are tomorrow's destiny, and minor adjustments bring major rewards.

Where there exists competition for membership in egalitarian rituals, some individuals dominate attention because of their relatively higher CC and EE, while others are less attended to because they lack these resources.

We no longer belong here, we are mutants, and our only choice is to become even more mutant so that we eventually leave and disappear from this region. We are nothing now but the residue of a defeated, conquered past and we are stubbornly holding on to old creeds, a few archaic rituals and the facade of western modernity.

The problem with Israel was her compartmentalized religion. She was oblivious to the actual moral nature of her many compromises, "desensitized to desecration", as long as she kept up the outward rites of Israelite religion.

Studies have shown that convincing religious agents (have) to have just the right level of outlandishness. Also, the manifestation need(s) to have an emotional resonance in order for belief to set in. Religions use elaborate rituals to stir up people's emotions....

There are a lot of things about religion, especially Catholic religion, that bug me.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.

I really miss how we used to celebrate Diwali when I was a kid.

Every Diwali, the excitement sets in with all the decorations, lights and Puja. Even if busy schedule of shoots does not allow time to enjoy all the celebrations or perform rituals, I make sure to do whatever I can.

To me, that aspect of life that most touches the everyday and celebrations is food.