Ceremony Quotes - Page 13

• I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

  Joshua Ferris

  Mother, Father, Divorce

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• I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture.

  Sherman Alexie

  Order, Culture

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• I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.

  Patsy Kensit

  Catholic, Church, Comfort

  "Patsy Kensit: My family values". Interview With Helen Carroll, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2011.

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• 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

  Jesus, Opposites, Simplicity

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• The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

  Giordano Bruno

  Law, Stupidity, World

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• In Wicca, rituals are ceremonies which celebrate and strengthen our relationships with the Goddess, the God and the Earth.

  Scott Cunningham

  God, Earth, Our Relationship

  Scott Cunningham (2010). “Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner”, p.49, Llewellyn Worldwide

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

  Nancy Pearcey

  Scratches, Language, Holy

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• If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.

  Victoria Wood

  People, Special, Treats

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• We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Beauty, Sweet, Men

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• I have always thought beach weddings are beautiful. A sunset ceremony with a beautiful sky, white drapes and fire lanterns.

  Ricky Whittle

  Beautiful, Beach, Sunset

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Daughter, Men, Land

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• I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

  Peter Hollingworth

  Issues, Done, Way

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• My big break was really Liz Meriwether saw me in a movie called 'Paper Heart' and really liked it, and then saw me in a movie called 'Ceremony' because she knew Max Winkler and said, 'I want you to be in 'No Strings Attached,' but you gotta audition for it.' From that it was easier for her to get me in 'New Girl.

  Jake M. Johnson

  Girl, Heart, Strings Attached

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact is that a "minor exorcism" takes place in every Baptism and Confirmation ceremony when we renounce Satan and all his works and empty promises. This prayer service will be along those lines. I'm not saying that anyone involved in the redefinition of marriage is possessed by the devil, which, if that were the case, would require the remedy of a "Major Exorcism," but all of us are certainly subject to the devil's evil influences and in need of protection and deliverance from evil.

  Thomas J. Paprocki

  Prayer, Evil, Baptism

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• If the 'self-life' is supreme, Satan does not have to be invited in. The lines are already set for the 'electric' current to flow. Satan is master of ceremonies, though he be apparently non-existent.

  F. Huegel

  Self, Temptation, Lines

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• I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Men, Self, Turkeys

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• Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Funeral, Abstract

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House

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• Today's concrete-pouring ceremony of Chashma-2 marks yet another landmark in Pak-China relations and a milestone in the history of nuclear technology in Pakistan.

  Shaukat Aziz

  Technology, Nuclear, Pakistan

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• Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

  Joan Miro

  Religious, Art, Hands

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• I think it is very important to know that we are going to die. Now we refuse the fact of dying. There was once serenity in dying where you had all your children around you in a ceremony and would utter your last words with something like, 'I love the sky'.

  Christian Boltanski

  Children, Thinking, Sky

  Interview with Lucy Rees, www.lucyreesart.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Gangs have always existed - they are primarily a community a young men trying to find intensity, meaning, a path to the outer world (outside of home) that most tribal groupings addressed with rituals, rites of passage, initiation ceremonies. We’ve lost this knowledge as a culture.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Home, Men, Community

  Interview with Elvira Carrizal-Dukes, www.epl.org. June 29, 2011.

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• The greatest insult came at the marriage ceremony when the minister asked 'who giveth this woman,' and some brother, or father or other man, unblushingly said he did, as though it were entirely a commercial transaction between men.

  Nellie L. McClung

  Marriage, Brother, Father

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• When a man and a woman love one another that is enough. That is marriage. A religious rite is superfluous. And if the man and woman live together without the love, no ceremony in the world can make it a marriage.

  Mary MacLane

  Marriage, Religious, Men

  Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.38, Petrarca Press

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• Effective metaphor does more than shed light on the two things being compared. It actually brings to the mind's eye something that has never before been seen. It's not just the marriage ceremony linking two things; it's the child born from the union.

  Rebecca McClanahan

  Children, Eye, Two

  Rebecca Mcclanahan (2000). “Word Painting”, p.90, Writer's Digest Books

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• So give yourself that chance to put together the 80, 90 pages of a draft and then read it very in a nice little ceremony, where you're comfortable, and you read it and make good notes on it, what you liked, what touched you, what moved you, what's a possible way, and then you go about on a rewrite.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Nice, Giving, Together

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