Quotes About Ceremony

The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.

Marriage is like a formality for me.

Two debuted at Los Angeles: the introduction of the now familiar medal ceremony, with national anthems and a three-tiered podium; and the creation of an Olympic village, not just as a practical solution to an accommodation problem, but as a stage for the production of Olympic tableaux and messages. Berlin completed the curious evolution of the modern Olympics' use of mythic fire with the staging of a torch relay from Olympia to the host city.

Only with the London games of 1908 did the now familiar model of official gold, silver and bronze medals, awarded on the day they were won, emerge. Even then, the ceremony lacked drama. There was no podium, no flags, and no music, just the gruff words of IOC grandees and floral bouquets. Flags and music arrived in 1928, but there was still no podium.

Mr. Ford, here is our new plant," Lord Perry, who was the head of Ford in Europe, said proudly. "Where is the water?" the old man asked. "There isn't any water," Lord Perry replied. "Well, let's get out of here," Ford said. "I don't even want to look at it." That had ended the ceremony. Ford had driven off, and they had torn down the plant and moved it to a deep-water site.

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

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?

We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

I hate the word 'production'...it's a ceremony, it's a ritual...you should go out of the theatre stronger and more human than when you went in.

No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

The ritual dance was a dromenon, a thing to be done, not a thing to be looked at.

The word t?l?t? means rite of growing up, becoming complete.

Throughout the ages, humans have had a need to mark the time and place when and where people make the final stop on their journey from this world to the next.

pamamanhikan,

Mankind has moved away from the heart of the world to the logic of the mind, and their belief is in the chemist, the physicist, and the mathematician. Science has proven to them that all this ancient belief in ceremony is simply ignorance.