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Quotes About Ceremony

The two moments that I felt the most nervous in my entire life were when I first had reading rehearsal for 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' and when I was at the Academy Awards ceremony.
~ Lee Byung-hun
Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.
~ Rob Lowe
I honestly never really watch the Emmys.
~ Zuleikha Robinson
Registration and cremation, they go together.
~ Graham Greene
How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.
~ Robert H. Schuller
By the last decades of the 21st century, church worship will still take the form of reading passages of traditional texts - the Bible, the Koran, the Rig Veda - but physicist-priests will preside over the ceremonies.
~ Frank Tipler
Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.
~ William Cowper
Award ceremonies are strange because you're sitting next to someone you've never met; you're celebrating with a total stranger.
~ Aneurin Barnard
Just as Luther proclaimed the centrality and sufficiency of faith for justification, so he accentuated with new power the role of faith in the reception of the sacraments. He declared that a sacrament apart from faith is empty; in reference to baptism he said: "Unless faith is present, or comes to life in baptism, the ceremony is of no avail."7
~ Shawn D. Wright
What if I should drop the ring? Cyril asked on the way to the church. Surely one of the functions of the best man - the principal function, in fact - was the calm the nerves of the bridegroom. Then you crawl around on the floor until you recover it, Percy said. It will not happen. I have never done this before, Cyril added. Neither have I, Percy told him.
~ Mary Balogh
I think a marriage is for two people, Charles. But a wedding is for their families and friends.
~ Mary Balogh
Would you object to a civil ceremony?" "That would certainly be nicer than shouting abuse at one another," Gina replied, straight-faced
~ Mary Doria Russell
freshly dead popes are struck thrice on the forehead with a special silver hammer.
~ Mary Roach
There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
rituals of diplomacy, but also rituals of tribute to an empire.
~ Barack Obama
cradling the soup terrine that she set
~ Barbara Kingsolver
And ceremony also functions as an antidote to loneliness.
~ Barry Lopez
Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.
~ Steve Aylett
Facing the couple, Cardinal Fitzroy said, "My dear friends, you have come together in this place so that the Lord may seal and strengthen your love in the presence of the Church's minister and this gathering of friends. Christ abundantly blesses this love. Since it is your intention to enter into marriage, join your hands, and declare your consent.
~ Joseph Flynn
The form of Baptism consists in the words accompanying the ablution. There are two essential parts: (i) the verbal designa tion of the baptismal act, and (2) the express in vocation of the three Persons of the Most Holy Trinity.
~ Joseph Pohle
sacramental rite or not. Hence the necessity of a proper intention.
~ Joseph Pohle
Nonsense," Daisy scolded. "You can't go to your warrior ceremony looking like some scruffy band of rogue kits. Any cat would think I hadn't brought you up properly." She began licking Berrypaw again, then broke off to add, "Mousepaw, you're just as bad! Have you seen the state of your tail?" "I hope Firestar has forgotten about my tail," Berrypaw mewed anxiously. "He might use it to give me my warrior name.
~ Erin Hunter
Determination was an unusual virtue to mention in the warrior ceremony; in Squirrelflight, it sometimes showed as stubbornness, and had led her close to trouble more than once.
~ Erin Hunter
Will there be a naming ceremony?" Mousefur called from the crowd. Fireheart looked eagerly up at the Highrock. Would his sister's kit be granted this privilege, as he had been when the Clan had formally accepted him? Bluestar looked down at Mousefur, her eyes cold. "No," she answered.
~ Erin Hunter