quotes about Ceremony
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A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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.
-- Bill Vaughan -
I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.
-- Charlize Theron -
There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee -
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When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
If you know your ceremonies and culture you'll know where the offense takes place
-- Floyd Red Crow Westerman -
Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
-- G. I. Gurdjieff -
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The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.
-- Graeme Le Saux -
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.
-- Ira Glasser -
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible
-- Mervyn Peake -
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Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
-- Oliver GoldsmithSource : Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.112
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Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.
-- Stanislav Grof -
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How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?
-- William Butler Yeats -
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
-- William Wycherley -
Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.
-- Elliott Masie -
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
-- Isaac D'IsraeliSource : "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791 - 1834.
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I read nothing. I watch nothing. I haven't even seen myself in the opening ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics. I don't look back. I don't allow myself to be influenced by people who don't know me. I'm incredibly thin-skinned. When you wander through this life as an exposed nerve, you have to make sure you remain insulated to a certain extent.
-- Measha Brueggergosman -
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
-- Alfred EdersheimSource : Alfred Edersheim (1874). “The Temple: Its Ministry and Services, as They Were at the Time of Jesus Christ”, p.80
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The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
-- Beatrice Lillie -
AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.
-- Richard Lerner -