Quotes About Ceremony

Sir, I hope your excellency'—What's all this ceremony?

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

Hours before Washington's inauguration was scheduled to take place, a special congressional committee decided that it might be fitting for the president to rest his hand on a Bible while taking the oath of office. Unfortunately, no one in Federal Hall had a copy of the Bible on hand. There followed a mad dash to find one.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

The Winter solstice (you haven't lived if you haven't seen us running around in our skivvies, banging on pots and pans, shouting "Come back, sun! Goddammit, come back! Come back!

What about me?" Wes snapped. "Don't I get a vote?" Daniel shook his head. "She's willing and you're breathing. I pronounce you man and wife.

When the wedding march sounds the resolute approach, the clock no longer ticks, it tolls the hour. The figures in the aisle are no longer individuals, they symbolize the human race.

Le compte à rebours va bientôt commencer. C'est une véritable fête que j'ai préparée, champagne, feu de bois, et le cadeau d'adieu, une gravure ancienne du Moulin de la Galette. La seule façon de finir sans trop souffrir, faire de l'adieu une cérémonie

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.

The graduates in their heavy robes looked as if the last beads of ignorance were being sweated out of them.

My favorite drink is sake.

Marriage isn't important for me. It's just a social announcement where we splurge on feeding a lot of people.

It was a conscious decision on my part to take up fewer films. And if you're not seen that often on screen, nobody calls you to perform at an awards ceremony.

When you get made into the Mafia, they cut, prick your finger. And they take the blood and put it on the picture of a saint. Then they burn it. That's the Mafia induction ceremony.

Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

I'm marrying my common-law wife, Beth, the Christian way, with a preacher and all that.

The man placed my mother on the counter. I'd selected an urn that could easily be confused for a Chinese vase, but I no longer appreciated that. When I saw it now I thought, This thing is so ugly, and if I screw off the top I will hear my mother scream.

She bowed. A long, slow, stiff bow from the waist. The bow of a Prussian officer in a social setting with civilians, feeling uncomfortable, waiting to leave.

Their hands bathed in purifying water, the family members gathered up the calcined bones in the folds of their black garments, then sprinkled them with wine and milk, dried them with fine linen before enclosing them in a marble urn (Tib., 3, 2, 16-22). In memory of the time when burial was performed, a finger severed before the body was burnt was buried separately, and a handful of earth was thrown three times on this os resectum.

With the ashes of calf embryos burnt at the Fordicidia, horse blood and bean stalks, they also concocted the mixture for the purifying fumigations (suffimina).

I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.

That, I think, is the power of ceremony. It marries the mundane to the sacred. The water turns to wine; the coffee to a prayer.

the First Salmon Ceremony, in all its beauty, reverberates through all the domes of the world. The feasts of love and gratitude were not just internal emotional expressions but actually aided the upstream passage of the fish by releasing them from predation for a critical time. Laying salmon bones back in the streams returned nutrients to the system. These are ceremonies of practical reverence.