Quotes of: Ritual Keyword

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Padma Lakshmi

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual.

Nicolas Cage

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

Jonathan Kozol

The good Jew is ritually observant and resists assimilation, in some sense living apart, never fitting comfortably into American or any other society.

Elliott Abrams

The legal system is often a mystery, and we, its priests, preside over rituals baffling to everyday citizens.

Henry Miller

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.

John Lennon

He realized that the ritualized world he had dismissed as feminine was in fact civilization.

Wilson Rawls

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

Brida

A heart filled with emotions doesn’t require rituals and venues for expressing true love.

Johnny Fracture

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

Looking for Alaska

To the romantic soul, the rituals of Valentine's Day echo every day of the year.

Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm a big believer in the way ritual can put us in connection with our spirituality.

Sue Monk Kidd

When I was a kid, our family used to watch 'Bonanza.' I really liked having a Sunday night TV ritual.

Anne Lamott

Throughout history, civilizations have built a common cause through coming-of-age rituals. But we don't do that anymore. Maybe we should think about that.

Joe Klein

The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.

Antony Beevor

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is a paradox that far too few Americans participate in the wonderful ritual of democracy that we call Election Day.

Brad Henry

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

David Icke

Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.

Xun Zi

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

Augusten Burroughs

We seek to find peace of mind in the word, the formula, the ritual. The hope is illusion.

Benjamin Cardozo