Quotes About Rituals

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

I may not believe in long-drawn rituals but I believe in a supernatural force that gives me strength. This can take the form of my mum, my father, my husband or my failures.

Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Christianity has its own superstition, anyway: Why you turn three times, what this saint means, why you pray to the patron saint of lost causes, why you go this way or that way.

Superstitions are habits rather than beliefs.

A family has its own rituals and its own superstitions.

I get dressed in the same way. Its not a superstition, at least I tell myself its not. Its more a way of getting that brain in gear to do that same thing. I get in the car the same way. Even the guys who are strapping me in the car get their own brains ready to go to work.

I don't have superstitions because I think sometimes they work against you because, if something happens to disturb them, you feel nervous.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

Basically I say a few prayers before a game and let that direct me, not superstitions.

I tend to eat things in fours. I'll eat four nuts, four grapes, four chips at a time. I don't know why. It's not really a superstition. I don't think anything bad will happen if I don't, but three potato chips doesn't seem right.

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

I don't have many superstitions, but I do have a few things I like to do out of routine and habit before a game.

I had some superstitions when I was little. And a winning pen is always a good thing to have.

All sportsmen have superstitions, or at least they have routines. You look at Rafa Nadal and the way he organises his water bottles. Me, I always put my left pad and left shoe on first.

To baseball players, our caps are sacred. We integrate our caps into our strange routines and superstitions, removing and replacing them on our heads with ritual precision so they sit just so.

I am a very superstitious person.

I know that baseball players have certain rituals or habits that they develop, because sometimes it becomes somewhat superstitious if they get on a streak and want to do the same thing over and over again.

I generally mark my ball with a quarter, but sometimes I'll use a Canadian one-dollar coin. I have a bunch from when I played on the Canadian Tour. I'm not superstitious.

I'm not superstitious or anything, there's nothing I do over and over. I do pray before every game, but other than that there's nothing really that I do consistently every game that's a ritual.

I'm superstitious about my hair. I don't like to cut it before big fights.

Nancy is superstitious.

The Jewish part of me is superstitious.