Quotes About Ceremony

through which the king, wearing his crown, was presented to his people as a divinely appointed figure of power.

He kisses here with more passion that ceremony

The ineffable utterance of one solitary man, absent, perhaps dead (Swann did not know whether Vinteuil were still alive), breathed out above the rites of those two hierophants, sufficed to arrest the attention of three hundred minds, and made of that stage on which a soul was thus called into being one of the noblest altars on which a supernatural ceremony could be performed.

But everyone knows you need fireworks to make independence official.

The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic double death with its ritual.

Espaniole was most likely a kohota, or festival chief, who was responsible for receiving captives, planning dances, and overseeing celebrations.

It seems there was a custom in Ireland at this time of showing obeisance to your king by sucking his nipples. No nipples, you could not be a king.

If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them with ceremony.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom

With soap, baptism is a good thing.

I finally found out how priests get holy water. They boil the hell out of it.

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed.

You mean she doesn't intend to blow me up before the ceremony?" said Kai, taking the box. "How disappointing.

Seriously, why was it tradition to stand when the bride came in? It blocked her from seeing her groom, who was the only reason she was there in the first place.

He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo.

If anyone that Sunday suggested that there was an element of the sacred to her ritual, she likely would have disagreed. There was no open Bible. No sanctified cloth. No preacher or even professors substituting for a divinely inspired voice. Not even a candlestick before her. This ceremony was liturgy of a different order. If her desk were indeed an altar, it was a shrine not to God, but to words.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman

In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice that still continues.

It was a heyoka place, a place of sacred clowns who laughed while they wept. A

For this reason, white historians think that there was no sun-dancing among the Sioux between 1883 and the 1930s, but they are wrong. The dance simply went underground. During all that time, every year some Sioux, somewhere, performed the ceremony. Henry

They made four hundred and five of these little tobacco bundles, one for each of the different plants, "our

I breathed a sigh of relief once the mutual pledge of vows was over. At this point, stewards brought up red and gold benches so the new couple could sit down as the ceremony continued. Prince Charles and Diana also seemed relieved to have completed the critical part of the proceedings. We could see them smile at each other and exchange quiet comments to relieve the tension.