Quotes About Ceremony

Jesus did not look with much favour upon outward form, ceremony, or with much favour upon formulated, or formal religion; and he somehow or other seemed to avoid the company of those who did.

Tea: was there ever a more universal and life-sustaining beverage.

To me, a theater is a kind of a sacred space. It needs a kind of ceremony, like what happens when you consecrate a church.

The United States is far too efficient. We've lost the ceremony of eating. People don't eat at home and cook meals at home.

An e-bhoomi pujan can be done. The ground-breaking ceremony can be held through video-conference.

I find the whole ceremony of marriage a bit like going to work. Putting on a lovely dress and make-up, learning lines, someone doing your hair.

The dance commonly begins about the middle of the afternoon or later, after sundown. When it begins in the afternoon, there is always an intermission of an hour or two for supper. The preliminary painting and dressing is usually the work of about two hours.

When they announce you as husband and wife for the first time, it's very surreal.

A Presbyterian pastor who had performed a number of such marriages told me, "I remember coming to this realization when I was meeting with same-sex couples before performing their ceremonies when it was legal in California. The old patriarchal default settings did not apply in their relationships, and it was a glorious thing to witness.

Hello, sir. Yes...Uh-huh...Yes...You say that you want to bury your aunt with a Christmas tree in her coffin? Uh-huh...She wanted it that way...I'll see what I can do for you, sir. Oh, you have the measurements of the coffin with you? Very good...We have our coffin-sized Christmas trees right over here, sir.

Madelyne, we're married now. 'Tis a usual occurrence to bed one's wife on the wedding night.

How rich?" They were married an hour later.

Both my mother and father regarded a traditional ceremony as old-fashioned and redundant. Both she and my father wanted to get rid of rituals like that, which they felt had nothing to do with their feelings. Love was the only thing that mattered to these two revolutionaries.

Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual.

Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, "Man Gets Married!"

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

On the whole, our modern ritual is impoverished and does not fulfill man's need for collective art and ritual.

Men should be bewailed at their birth, and not at their death.

I raised my right hand and placed my left on the Quran, which was being held by my wife and mom. Suddenly, I was blinded by a cascade of camera flashes.

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

Politeness requires this thing; decorum that; ceremony has its forms, and fashion its laws, and these must always follow, never the promptings of our own nature.

Water is sacred to all Human Beings. If you do not have water, you cannot have life. I always remember to honor and pour the water because it is traditional.

Then the American flag was saluted. In general, in the United States people always salute the American flag.