Ceremony Quotes
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Ceremony Quotes & Sayings
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To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The sauce to meat is ceremony; Meeting were bare without it.
— William Shakespeare
What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.
— William Shakespeare
I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.
— Elton John
It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.
— Lois Wyse
The Oscars Ceremony: a great workout for the gag reflex
— Dean Cavanagh
As a child he was fond of hanging cats and then burying them with ceremony.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Evan James was done up in a white suit, looking very handsome and calling "Dada, Dada" during the ceremony
— Bruce Springsteen
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
— Ambrose Bierce
Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.
— Graeme Le Saux
The political instinct might wear different clothes in different nations, but underneath the pomp and ceremony it's the same ugliness.
— Robert Jackson Bennett
In Japan, you can learn how to make a bunch of flowers. This is an art. Tea ceremony, it's an art.
— Carine Roitfeld
May you have happiness, and may you find it making one another happy.
— James Dillet Freeman
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. I
— Dan Simmons
I've been cordially invited to join the visceral realists. I accepted, of course. There was no initiation ceremony. It was better that way.
— Roberto Bolano
What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?
— Sylvia Plath
I remember, particularly, a trip to Bosnia where the welcoming ceremony had to be moved inside because of sniper fire.
— Hillary Clinton
A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.
— Jim Highsmith
The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.
— William Shakespeare
We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.
— Sakyong Mipham
I keep writing and rewriting, drawing and redrawing, and rethinking and revising and reediting. It became my grieving ceremony.
— Sherman Alexie
Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite bomb.
— Ambrose Bierce
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
I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.
— Ricky Whittle
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
— Henry James
Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.
— Steve Aylett
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
— William Butler Yeats
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
— Aleister Crowley
I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.
— Michel De Montaigne
Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.
— Brad Sherman
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Although it may be unused, the front door continues to appeal to our sense arrival. Call it the ceremony of coming home.
— Akiko Busch
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?
— William Shakespeare
In the name of religion, we force widowhood upon our three lakh girl-widows who could not understand the import of the marriage ceremony.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.
— Luis Walter Alvarez
The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.
— Isaac D'Israeli
but this was no time to stand on ceremony.
— Gordon McAlpine
There is a sort of melancholy pleasure to be had out of a funeral, with its pomp and ceremony, but I shrank from a death-bed.
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
It's the lifetime after the wedding that really counts, not the fanfare and ceremony of the day.
— Linda R. Graf
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned W. B. Yeats 'The Second Coming
— Rennie Airth
I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.
— Gillian Jacobs
Make sure, for once and forever, that the color of our skin becomes as irrelevant as the lenght of our hair
— Alejandro G. Inarritu
It was not certain what significance the ceremony held ... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible
— Mervyn Peake
An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
— Alfred Edersheim
Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.
— Bernard Wolfe
When you're a child, you crave formal recognition; you crave ceremony, celebration, certification of proof.
— Kaui Hart Hemmings
Well," I said, "he drinks a bit. And he's rather fond of sheep. But he might remember the words to the wedding ceremony.
— Diana Gabaldon
There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.
— Keith O'Brien
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.
— Hermann Maier
I hate the word 'production'. It's a ceremony, a ritual - you should go out of the theatre more human than when you went in.
— Ariane Mnouchkine
The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.
— Beatrice Lillie
Introduction - a social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies.
— Ambrose Bierce
Japanese tea ceremony,
— Sheryl Berk
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
— Herbert Spencer
I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.
— Annie E. Clark
But one should pray in one's heart during a sacred ceremony; this is the purpose of the ceremony, to purify the participants both inside and outside.
— Thomas Yellowtail
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Truth and ceremony are two things.
— Marcus Aurelius
Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer.
— Anais Nin
Come down, luv. Don't be shy. Every wedding ceremony needs witnesses. Why should mine and yours be any different?
— A.G. Howard
Ceremony is all backbone.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.
— Anna Quindlen
You save time when you don't need to have an awards ceremony every time a C statement does what it's supposed to. Moreover,
— Steve McConnell
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
— Jonathan Swift
The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.
— Hosokawa Tadaoki
Ceremony is necessary as the outwork and defense of manners.
— Lord Chesterfield
Ceremony-the wine of human existence - Morris R. Cohen
— Barbara Jonas
A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other ... until death do them join.
— Elbert Hubbard
Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.
— William Wycherley
I really like the Chloe Sevigny for Opening Ceremony collection - all of those kind of laser-cut leather dresses.
— Behati Prinsloo
Robert Frost's triumph was not being at John Kennedy's inauguration ceremony, but the day when he put the last period on West-Running Brook.
— Joseph Brodsky
But when I reach the edge of the
crowd gathered for the ceremony, I understand what has really drawn me here.
Li Wei. — Richelle Mead
crowd gathered for the ceremony, I understand what has really drawn me here.
Li Wei. — Richelle Mead
A wedding is a ceremony men fund with money they know they don't have ... to prove the love they think they have.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
A Christian funeral should be a coronation ceremony, a statement to the world about eternal life.
— Billy Graham
But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.
— Liu Jingmin
Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.
— E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax