Quotes About Ceremony

Next new moon? At the four trees?

When I get married...well, if I get married," I start, staring out the window, "I want to walk down the isle carrying a basket filled with coffee beans and Hershey bars.

She wanted to make him swear; to have a kind of ceremony-- but then she saw his face as he looked out over the Island and saw that he loved it as she did, and she knew for certain they would both be back.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Yount, who was an 18-year-old shortstop when he met Uecker, and is one of Bob's closest friends, noticed immediately that the event was held in the afternoon with only a smattering of media members on hand. "God, this unbelievable," Yount said. "Fifty thousand empty seats. What a ceremony.

When the Lakers held Jerry West Night in March 1971, Bill Russell paid his own way to be there and said during the ceremony, "Jerry, I once wrote that success is a journey, and that the greatest honor a man can have is the respect and friendship of his peers.

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me.

Being a pop fan is a lot like Catholic devotion - lots of ritual, lots of ceremony... We touch the icon to enter the sacred space, genuflecting to reliquaries and ostentatoria that make something splendid of our most secret desires and agonies.

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

Without the tao, Kindness and compassion are replaced by law and justice; Faith and trust are supplanted by ritual and ceremony.

Japanese tea ceremony

I want a big church wedding.

My God . . . that grinding is a greeting. My arrival is honored with the honing of an axe

With rich flames, and hired tears, they solemnized their obsequies.

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

I must motor to Windsor for this wretched Investiture.

Tragically, some people believe they are going to heaven when they die just because a few drops of water were sprinkled over their heads a few weeks after their birth. They have no personal faith, have never made a personal decision, and are banking on a hollow ceremony to save them. How absurd!

When religious ritual is not perfumed By the incense of burning flesh

We love you. We want you to marry us.

Have a slice of orange—traditionally

Eschewing ceremony, Eugenides said, You shot the ambassador? You gave me the gun, protested Sounis. I didn't mean for you to shoot the ambassador with it! Eugenides told him. Oh, how our carefully laid plans go astray, murmured the magus. You shut up! said Gen, laughing.