Quotes About Ceremony

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

You mustn't upstage the bride.

More often than not religious rites are performed out of fear or superstition. And they are seldom questioned or examined.

The whole thing was a charade--the pomp, the ceremony, the goose-stepping. the salute--but the incredible cost was very real.

from the extensive emphasis on ceremony to a focus on teaching.

Let us take some simple examples: When you were going to be married, you had vivid, realistic pictures in your mind. With your power of imagination, you saw the minister, rabbi, or priest. You heard him pronounce the words, you saw the flowers and the church, and you heard the music. You imagined the ring on your finger, and you traveled through your imagination on your honeymoon to Niagara Falls or Europe. All this was performed by your imagination.

Nobody goes anywhere though we are always leaving and returning. It's a ceremony. Sunrise occurs everywhere, in lizard time, human time, or a fern uncurling time.

We make ceremony with words even as our words can lead us to the hells of destruction.

Blood was the new holy water, the entire ceremony exuding medieval overtones of sacrifice and racial purity, central to the aims of National Socialism. Perhaps

His guests found it fun to watch him make tea -- mixing careful spoonfuls from different caddies.

Then, shrouded in chinchilla, she walked without further ceremony out the great wide gap in the opera-house wall, and up Seventh Avenue through the all-but-deserted Rialto alone, followed at a distance by her retainers, like a star.

You wouldn't expect me to make social calls if you had the remotest idea of the work entailed in bringing two unfortunate persons to the altar.' Careless words. 'It takes ten minutes, in my experience,' Lymond said.

There's something hypnotic about the word tea.

he is filled with the solemn intoxication that comes of intricate ritual faultlessly performed.

Douglas L. Wilson

Lord Caterham has that solemn and shocked look which Englishmen assume when a religious ceremony is in progress.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

There's a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There's a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.

Oaths are the fossils of piety.

If you wanna give me an award, I'll take it. Just don't make me go to the party afterwards.

Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.

Ceremony and ritual are like a warm, fuzzy coat to the Brits. It feels good to put it on.

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

The hall of fame ceremonies are on the 31st and 32nd of July.