Top 389 Ceremony Quotes & Sayings

... I doubt the capacity of the human animal for being dignified in ceremony.

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight... [Breadmaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel. that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

God alone created marriage. Adam slept through the entire ceremony. Eve came in late. It seems to me men are still sleeping through marriage, and women are still coming to their senses a little too late. God alone performed that ceremony, and He alone can hold it together.

Even if the Tonys aren't as glitzy as the Oscars, being a part of the ceremony is no less exciting.

An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

Howard University holds something called "Heart's Day," an all day ceremony in which a writer is honored. I was the recipient of this honor. It's a wonderful ceremony that Eleanor Traylor chair of English at Howard University organizes for writers. Writers from around the country came to pay tribute to my work. It was very flattering.

Modi invite me for his swearing in ceremony and I did attend it.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The day I graduated, I skipped the ceremony to go straight to California for the dot-com boom.

Truth and ceremony are two things.

We all have that moment when we think, 'Hand me that Oscar now - you don't even have to have the ceremony'.

Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.

But prices for the opening ceremony and some events' final competition should be a little bit higher.

My ritual it's kind of an involuntary ritual. I lie awake the night before, worrying about award ceremony. Try and think of something to write in case I actually get up there. I write it at the very last minute like either in the car on the way to the ceremony or, you know, in the bathroom before the show starts. It's all of jumbled mess written on a napkin or a piece of toilet paper. That's my good luck ritual. It's just like being in college waiting for the last minute to do everything.

AT&T to wed T-Mobile. Following the ceremony there will be no reception.

Walking in the opening ceremony and just being part of the Olympics is so special and it's something to cherish forever.

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.

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.

What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?

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.

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Ceremony is all backbone.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony.

I would never watch the Oscar ceremony.

Instead of reading vows at the wedding ceremony, they read hacked Sony emails.

What war has always been is a puberty ceremony.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

There was no pomp and ceremony in connection with the birth of Jesus - rather the opposite: it took place in simplicity and in poverty.

Higher education is the only business that has a ceremony for firing its customers.

Friendship cannot live with ceremony, nor without civility.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

I don't want a Jennifer Lopez wedding or anything like that. A commitment ceremony would be a nice thing to do.

The vows one makes privately are more binding than any ceremony or even a Shubert contract.

I've been obsessed with Opening Ceremony since I moved to New York. I've spent whole paychecks there.

Ritual and ceremony in their due times kept the world under the sky and the stars in their courses. It was astonishing what ritual and ceremony could do.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe.

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible

Ceremony and ritual are like a warm, fuzzy coat to the Brits. It feels good to put it on.

I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do - the actual act of writing - turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

I do love the ceremony of putting on a record but I don't have space for a vinyl collection.

Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.

A methodology's weight is a product of its size and ceremony.

An e-bhoomi pujan can be done. The ground-breaking ceremony can be held through video-conference.

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

I don't know if I can face this. You know. The party and the ceremony, and then the hour after that, and the hour after that." "You don't have to go to the party. You don't have to go to the ceremony. You don't have to do anything at all." "But there are still the hours, aren't there? One and then another, and you get through that one and then, my god, there's another. I'm so sick.

I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town.

Gun stripping is the tea ceremony of America.

Ceremony and great professing renders friendship as much suspect as it does religion.