Top 219 Ceremonies Quotes & Sayings

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

I definitely think awards ceremonies should have gender-neutral categories.

You'll never see me at award ceremonies.

For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.

When one has nothing left make ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

I get embarrassed on the red carpet at awards ceremonies. The whole celebrity thing is embarrassing.

Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

The (Academy Award) ceremonies are a two-hour meat parade, a public display with contrived suspense for economic reasons.

My initial goal for the 1984 opening ceremonies was a show that would be majestic, inspirational, and emotional - a 20 goosebump experience.

The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.

Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.

Award ceremonies are strange because you're sitting next to someone you've never met; you're celebrating with a total stranger.

Christmases with Polish and Romanian troops, including religious ceremonies in crude bunkers and huts, were deeply spiritual experiences.

I have been opposed to ceremonies at the White House. It gives the impression that the court is subordinate to the executive, which I think is quite wrong.

Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners.

I probably shouldn't say this but I collect little souvenirs from dinner events or ceremonies. It can be a small spoon or a napkin from Clarence House.

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.

I don't like going out or attending award ceremonies.

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

Taking off my shirt has become a part of my life, whether it is at award ceremonies or reality shows. As long as people enjoy it, why not?

I don't like award ceremonies.

The temple is a sacred edifice, a holy place, where essential saving ceremonies and ordinances are performed to prepare us for exaltation. It is important that we gain a sure knowledge that our preparation to enter the holy house and that our participation in these ceremonies and covenants are some of the most significant events we will experience in our mortal lives.

As the magistrate has no power to impose by his laws the use of any rites and ceremonies in any church, so neither has he any power to forbid the use of such rites and ceremonies as are already received, approved, and practised by any church; because if he did so, he would destroy the church itself; the end of whose institution is only to worship God with freedom, after its own manner.

Ceremonies are important. But our gratitude has to be more than visits to the troops, and once-a-year Memorial Day ceremonies. We honor the dead best by treating the living well.

?s I've mentioned many times, sitting through graduation ceremonies is one of life's drearier milestones.

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.

True love isn't reserved for weddings and ceremonies. It's from the heart. That's all it has to be. All it ever is.

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Society is frivolous, and shreds its day into scraps, its conversation into ceremonies and escapes.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

Bollywood is a great place. You can expect support for award ceremonies, weddings, and funerals.

'Never forget' is correct. But the place to remember is in our hearts, not in lavish ceremonies.

I order that my funeral ceremonies be extremely modest, and that they take place at dawn or at the evening Ave Maria, without song or music.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

I go to award ceremonies, but I always like to be in my world. That's the only place I can control where I won't get upset.

The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of formal ceremonies.

The only way we'll know where we're going is to look at the past and to remember who we were through ceremonies and rituals.

My mother is a spiritual singer in Kanpur and she has devoted her entire life to singing at various jagratas and religious ceremonies.

The truth was, I never liked the rose ceremonies. The cocktail parties beforehand are also difficult as there is so much stress and nervousness that's put on everyone.

Be assured that Christianity is something more than forms and creeds and ceremonies: there is life, and power, and reality, in our holy faith.

I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

We have to do that. We have to be thankful. That's what we said. Two things were told to us: To be thankful, so those are our ceremonies, ceremonies of thanksgiving. We built nations around it, and you can do that, too. And the other thing they said was enjoy life. That's a rule, a law- enjoy life- you're supposed to.

I think it's alright if the government wants to say, in the state of Massachusetts, in the state of New York, in the state of California, that civil ceremonies should be accepted, I think that should be fine. I don't think that even those states that believe in civil marriages between homosexuals or ordained in a church should perform civil ceremonies.

I don't like awards ceremonies. I'd sooner go to the pub with mates I've known for years.

I think Latin American cultures are really rich and fascinating. I like the pomp and circumstance of some of their rituals and ceremonies.

We have birthdays and bar mitzvahs and funerals and weddings. And these ceremonies and rituals, I believe, really help us transition from one point to another.

I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

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

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end; it's the beginning.

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.

I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies.

Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.

The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.

The negroes are lovers of ludicrous actions, and hence all their ceremonies seem farcical.

My contributions were many: First clown director, with witty sayings and flashily dressed, now called master of ceremonies.