24 Quotes on Ceremony

• In the silence of untouched joy lies a verdant field where the quietest triumph may reign, nurturing depth over extravagance;

  Author: Evangeline Lumi

• Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony.

  Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

  Author: Imelda Staunton

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

  Author: Herbert Spencer

• Of the unjust rights which in virtue of this ceremony an iniquitous law gives me over the person and property of another, I cannot legally, but I can morally, divest myself.

  Author: Robert Owen

• A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

  Author: Robert Orben

• This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will.

  Author: Stanford Moore

• Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.

  Author: Maria Monk

• We wait here to meet the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam to discuss together a ceremony of orderly transfer of power so as to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed in the population.

  Author: Duong Minh

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

  Author: Hermann Maier

• The ceremony took six minutes. The marriage lasted about the same amount of time though we didn't get a divorce for almost a year.

  Author: Hedy Lamarr

• On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

  Author: Nusrat Khan

• Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself.

  Author: Tom Jones

• 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.

  Author: G. Gurdjieff

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  Author: Ira Glasser

• Hearing Mass is the ceremony I most favor during my travels. Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

  Author: Charles Gaulle

• The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.

  Author: Suzanne Fields

• Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.

  Author: R. Ermey

• There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

  Author: Charles Eastman

• 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.

  Author: Katherine Dunham

• Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

  Author: William Cowper

• The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the rain but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony.

  Author: John Cheever

• In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

  Author: Jimmy Carter

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

  Author: David Antin

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