Quotes About Ceremony

I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.

Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own.

Mawwage. Mawwage is what bwings us together today.

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

A wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth.

This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

there rose this man Krishna, and in the Gita he tries to reconcile the ceremony and the philosophy of the priests and the people.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

The clothes felt like something more: fine chain-mail armor handmade to fit me, or robes laid out ready for some fiercely secret ceremony. They made my palms tingle when I touched them.

Every couple of seconds out here they're honoring somebody. You've got to get dressed, go in and sit down. Invariably somebody makes a speech.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

I had one of those farcical bar mitzvahs where they spell out the words phonetically on index cards, and you don't even know what you're saying.

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

The Apache don't have a word for love," he said. "Know what they both say at the marriage? The squaw-taking ceremony?" "Tell me." "Varlebena. It means forever. That's all they say.

I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.

With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage.

We do not create marriage from scratch. Instead, in the elegant language of the marriage ceremony, we 'enter into the holy estate of matrimony.

Well, the one thing I've thought about is having dad give me away. You know when he takes your hand and he puts it in the hand of the person you marry? That's the only part I've ever wanted.

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

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

These simple terms—"come about," for example—denote procedures that are as complicated and tradition-bound as the installation of a new Pope.

Why bother to have a technical term for a religious ritual?