Quotes About Rituals

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

Baseball is a game of tradition. It lives, in large measure, on its past.

My family is very traditional, Catholic.

I would say I'm more traditional than I am superstitious. I don't, for example, have to do things ritually before the game in order to feel comfortable going to the game. But I don't think I'm naturally a football player. I don't have that grit and that killer instinct.

People have their cultural reasons for eating meat, their traditional reasons, their likes and dislikes.

I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget - a day full of hopes and dreams for our future.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you.

I make our family traditions a priority.

Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

Throughout human history, people have developed strong loyalties to traditions, rituals, and symbols. In the most effective organizations, they are not only respected but celebrated. It is no coincidence that the most highly admired corporations are also among the most profitable.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Traditions are the inventions of people who mean to routinely put love and comfort and meaning into their lives and in the lives of those they live with.

Traditions insist upon themselves. Look around, and you will see them trying to exist everywhere, in everyone's life.

There's a reason why the cultures of so many Chinatowns around the world in some ways are more Chinese. They've held onto older Chinese rituals, traditions, and symbols in ways that, if you go back to China today, they're not holding on to. They're getting married in white dresses and in churches.

Americans are locked into our traditions.

Since I was a child I didn't like conforming to the various rules pertaining to rituals and traditions.

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could say that it helped me figure out the anatomy and physiology of mythology and its relevance in a society more incisively. How is it that no society can, or does, exist without them?

We have a priest at Inter Milan and a chapel at the training ground. That is where I was baptised and confirmed into the church.

Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays.

Small cakes called amphiphontes meaning shining on both sides, were offered to the goddess here.

But how does it happen, if their books and rituals are true, and Felicity is a goddess, that she herself is not appointed as the only one to be worshipped, since she could confer all things, and all at once make men happy? For who wishes anything for any other reason than that he may become happy?

Like Confucianism, communism is a kind of secular religion. Like a religion, communism connects people through shared rituals and songs, offers explanations for everything and promises a paradise to come.

You know, it's a peculiar thing. At funerals one's inclined to laugh; and at weddings, weep.