Top 907 Rite Of Passage Quotes & Sayings

No longer a mark of distinction or proof of achievement, a college education is these days a mere rite of passage, a capstone to adolescent party time.

There aren't a lot of opportunities for that rite of passage that makes you a man. War is one of them, and violent sports are another.

Every new generation seems to have to go through its Doors rite of passage.

I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent and have a good crack at doing that.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.

Across disparate cultures that require physical risk-taking as a rite of passage, it is always the men who engage in such pursuits.

We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.

Having a phone call from Steven Spielberg was just a fantastic rite of passage. I loved it, and he was very focused, very likable, strictly business, and really sharp.

I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.

Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

So basically, you know, the first day on the job you get there and you realize everybody has a Nerf gun. They had, you know, the smaller ones that shoot the darts. So part of the rite of passage of coming to the company is you have to get your own.

There I was at 'The Tree of Life' premiere, holding hands with Sean Penn and Brad Pitt. That walk down the red carpet was a real rite of passage for me. Suddenly, journalists began asking, 'Who's this actress?'

Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge.

I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.

You see the guys in the Ribera jackets and it's really a rite of passage to be able to work in Japan, come over here and perform for the fans here, and then come over to Ribera Steakhouse and get that jacket.

Life used to be a rite of passage in and of itself. But it's not our parents' generation anymore.

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

Cinema was my rite of passage.

KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

Lots of models have played mermaids throughout history and it is, kind of, a funny rite of passage.

I think it's a rite of passage that the minute you land in Japan, you have to go to a karaoke bar.

I come from a place where to go to prison is like a rite of passage. It's something that you gain respect for. I used to watch people come out of prison, older cousins and the like, back in the day, and be in awe of them.

When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That's par for the course.When you're a movie star, it went with it. It's a kind of rite of passage, socially.

When I was a child, going to a circus with wild animal acts was a rite of passage. These days, it's an act of complicit cruelty.

By the time I got to college in the '90s, virtually every young woman I knew was on the pill. It was like a rite of passage, along with Doc Martens and Take Back the Night rallies.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.

It is devastating that jail is seen as a rite of passage for many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, part of the natural order of things. It is an outrage that there is an attitude that this is normal. This is not normal. We can't shrug our shoulders and say this is just a 'fact of life' in remote Australia.

As an inventor, it's a rite of passage to have an engine. I'd like to have my own engine someday.

I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.

Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.

I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

Whether your childhood roots lie in the city, the country or possibly more crucially in the neighbourhood suburbs of this wide brown land, a trip to the milkbar with your friends has long been a beloved rite of passage when it comes to growing up in Australia.

Sometimes I feel that 'Footloose' is the rite of passage.

Death is the least civilized rite of passage.

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.

It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part.

I have been to Graceland a hundred times. Every kid in middle Tennessee has this night where it hits midnight, and they are like, 'Let's go to Graceland!' It's a rite of passage. I did it.

Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a stand against petty or protracted hostility between girls.

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.

I choose to surround myself with happy human beings. I went through the angsty period. I think every single person does. I think it's a rite of passage to hate the world and feel like the victim.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband's family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

Going to Goa was a rite of passage for me, because it's where I learnt that you could mix fish with really strong flavours.

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance.

I'm not going to recommend recklessness but somewhere just short of it - testing yourself and proactively pursuing a rite of passage has become necessary because in western developed countries we've become very comfort-addicted.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

When I was growing up, a Saturday job was a rite of passage, every kid had one.

I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.

They were the books to read, 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings.' A rite of passage going through life.

What actor doesn't want to walk around a set and be called 'Mr. President?' Playing POTUS is a kind of rite of passage among American actors - our version of playing Hamlet.