Ceremony Quotes
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There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ. (Quote by - Josiah Strong)
Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
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. (Quote by - Suzanne Fields)
Many are the starrs I see, but in my eye no starr like thee. (Quote by - English saying used on poesy rings)
Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost. (Quote by - Voltaire)
We're talking an eight- to 10-minute drive from the closing ceremony to the golf course. So her heart raced at basically 290 beats per minute for about 15 minutes. (Quote by - Beth Daniel)
The Coronation Ceremony isn't one of the most publicized events, but it's a really nice ceremony and I would encourage people to come. (Quote by - Brian Hickman)
The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford," she told the 2001 graduation ceremony. "And I was afraid the day I walked out. (Quote by - Carly Fiorina)
Students joining friends their age for graduation ceremonies can be a very special moment in their development, and the governor believes this bill has great merit. (Quote by - Kate Philips)
Friendship should be surrounded with ceremonies and respects, and not crushed into corners. Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
They were assured in the wedding invitations that transportation to the ceremony would be provided for them. (Quote by - Christopher Christie)
The day after the opening ceremony, when suddenly you have people competing for medals in every event. .. It's like real reality TV. We're not going to be talking about skeleton coaches the day after the opening ceremony. (Quote by - David Wallechinsky)
Grow old with me! The best is yet to be. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
I go to ceremonies and see people talk about traditional ways while they pass out soda and store bought food that is unhealthy for us. We need to get back to our traditional foods if we are going to talk about being ceremonial. (Quote by - Justin Willey)
Are we not like two volumes of one book? (Quote by - Marceline Desbordes- Valmore)
Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed. (Quote by - Erma Bombeck)
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. (Quote by - Natalie Clifford Barney)
When one rows, it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)
Sometimes I would go for a special event, like a baby-naming ceremony. And sometimes I would just go and hang out with them. (Quote by - Anne Makepeace)
For you see, each day I love you more Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. (Quote by - Rosemonde Gerard)
I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. (Quote by - David Antin)
They see a mayor getting killed here, policeman being blown up at a graduation ceremony there. If we can get the security situation right, we will unlock that population to build a new Iraq. (Quote by - Robert Orr)
Many of these journalists are putting themselves in harm's way, which makes this event unique among the awards ceremonies. (Quote by - Bill Collins)
Love me and the world is mine. (Quote by - David Reed)
We have approved that a medal awards ceremony can be held at the site, but the games must be held outside the archaeological area. (Quote by - Christos Zachopoulos)
If [the ceremony] is not that, it will be an also-ran, and Melbourne is not that sort of place. (Quote by - Andrew Walsh)
Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. (Quote by - Contributed by: Andy James)
Who would give a law to lovers? Love is unto itself a higher law. (Quote by - Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy, A.D. 524)
On this memorable day, we were honored to witness 50 petitioners, representing 24 different countries, take the oath of United States citizenship at a naturalization ceremony in the courtroom of Judge Gregory Frost. Having the privilege of watching this naturalization ceremony was an experience these fourth-graders and their teachers will never forget. (Quote by - Donna Taylor)
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? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - G. I. Gurdjieff)
It was really quite moving to see all of the participants in the opening ceremony. (Quote by - Chris Leach)
Do not regularly perform marriage ceremonies. (Quote by - Bill Carter)
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. (Quote by - Katherine Dunham)
I told them I would be very happy to see them graduate with their classmates. I would be happier if I will see them join the graduation ceremonies, which means by 2008, they'd already be free. (Quote by - Dr. Melinda Bandalaria)
There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. (Quote by - Henry James)
If two stand shoulder to shoulder against the gods, Happy together, the gods themselves are helpless Against them while they stand so. (Quote by - Maxwell Anderson)
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. (Quote by - Hedy Lamarr)
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. (Quote by - Jimmy Carter)
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. (Quote by - Michael Leunig)
True love stories never have endings. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
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. (Quote by - R. Lee Ermey)
Marriage a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. (Quote by - Herbert Spencer)
A ceremony honoring his decision will be held on August 9. (Quote by - Cindy Moore)
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. (Quote by - William Cowper)
What I think was the most unfortunate thing was that it happened to be around the religious ceremony. Each ceremony has a significant meaning and have to be in succession. It was like having the pope cutting short his mass. We who participate in these ceremonies with a whole-heart commitment have a respect for that. (Quote by - John Molina)
When we first met, we shared a dream. We decided that one day we would like to do a comprehensive study of the most powerful ceremonies that occurred across the African continent, spanning the life cycle from birth to death. We were aware these ceremonies were fast disappearing and we felt an urgency to record them before it was too late. And we've been working toward that for the last ten years in order to prepare our double-volume book. (Quote by - Carol Beckwith)
The opening ceremony is all about passion, energy, the Italy of the future. It will be a bit aggressive. The closing ceremony will have a carnival theme - with a melancholy air because it's the end of the Games. (Quote by - Marco Balich)
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. (Quote by - Ira Glasser)
This building has always been strategic because the original main city gate, the Netherbow Port, stood right beside it. You have the whole business of the gate which is defence and it is also ceremony. (Quote by - Donald Smith)
I love thee - I love thee, 'Tis all that I can say It is my vision in the night, My dreaming in the day. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
To feed were best at home; From thence, the sauce is meat to ceremony: Meeting were bare without it. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
It was a small private family ceremony. There are going to be two parties in September for friends and colleagues. There were no ministerial colleagues at the ceremony. (Quote by - Tony Blair)
And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place. (Quote by - Zora Neale Hurston)
It was just an outstanding event. They were happy to have us. We felt at home. They had signs up and our pictures. The halftime ceremony was very nice and so was the reception. It couldn't have been a nicer party for our group. (Quote by - Clancy Norris)
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. (Quote by - Stephen King)
My whole heart for my whole life. (Quote by - French saying used on poesy rings)
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. (Quote by - Maria Monk)
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. (Quote by - Robert Dale Owen)
My heart to you is given: Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key. (Quote by - Frederick Saunders)
O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)
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. (Quote by - Chuang Tzu)
We feel strongly that as the Golden Globe Awards show is an event of high public interest around the world, news agencies should be allowed independent access to the ceremony, as we are at other major award ceremonies. (Quote by - Santiago Lyon)
On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time. (Quote by - Nusrat F. A. Khan)
The company asked us to delay the ceremony and we asked, 'Does this mean delay the project?' They said, 'No, just delay the ceremony. (Quote by - Bert Brantley)
Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. (Quote by - Ovid)
I was quite moved to see this huge crowd which attended the ceremony in the middle of the town. (Quote by - Hermann Maier)
The opening ceremony is a crucial part of the Olympic Games. The success of a high-level Olympic Games with distinguishing features depends on the level of the opening ceremony. The 1.3 billion Chinese people are full of aspirations for the Olympic Games, and they have very high expectations for the opening ceremony. For billions of TV viewers around the world, the opening ceremony is also the 'first impression' that the Olympic Games have to offer. (Quote by - Liu Qi)
A Man without ceremony has need of great merit in its place. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
I am honored to be selected as Canada's flag bearer for the closing ceremony of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games. Over the past 16 days we've had some outstanding performances by Canadian athletes and it is truly overwhelming to be selected as the flag bearer amidst the most successful Canadian Olympic Winter Games team ever. (Quote by - Cindy Klassen)
If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates. (Quote by - David Antin)
If our two loves be one, or thou and I Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die. (Quote by - John Donne)
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. (Quote by - William Butler Yeats)
Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Our opening ceremony this year is really exciting. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
When love is not madness, it is not love. (Quote by - Pedro Calderon de la Barca)
We will be able to continue the ceremony. It's very important to bring them full-circle. We begin it with the Coping with Cadavers session, and this ceremony brings closure to the whole experience. (Quote by - Dr. Maria Czuzak)
Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid . She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up. (Quote by - Kenneth Rexroth)
There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end, it's the beginning. (Quote by - Orrin Hatch)
In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced. (Quote by - Robert Sexton)
We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films. (Quote by - Chris Anstey)
These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs. (Quote by - Christine Todd)
Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. (Quote by - Voltaire)
After their death, where will they be sent? The sixty-eight sacred shrines of pilgrimage give them no place of protection, and no Brahmin will eat their food. They remain polluted forever, day and night; they do not apply the ceremonial tilak mark to their foreheads. They sit together in silence, as if in mourning; they do not go to the Lord's Court. (Quote by - Sri Guru Granth Sahib)
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. (Quote by - Robert Orben)
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. (Quote by - Thomas Love Peacock)
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible. (Quote by - Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally)
This ceremony was basically a ground-breaking ceremony for the project. (Quote by - Amy Braswell)
Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction. (Quote by - Antoine de Saint- Exupery)
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
We're going to work hard to make the graduation ceremonies just as exciting as they would be if they were held here. (Quote by - Louis Smith)
He performs worship ceremonies, applies the ceremonial tilak mark to his forehead, and takes his ritual cleansing baths; he pulls out his knife, and demands donations. (Quote by - Atharva Veda)
A lot of communities have established over the years their own tradition of how they do it. Some of them have formal ceremonies. I've been to some where they bring in the high school band, a choir group from a local church. (Quote by - Bill Dressel)
Nay, my lords, ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes, Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'Til you give it away. (Quote by - Oscar Hammerstein)
A wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain, Unravelled from the tumbling main, And threading the eye of a yellow star: - So many times do I love again. (Quote by - Thomas Lovell Beddoes)
You just invite people over for a surprise birthday party, but really it's a surprise wedding. The bride comes in, everyone yells 'surprise,' but she's in a wedding dress. Then somebody in the crowd that nobody's noticed comes up and starts to do the ceremony. (Quote by - Scott Shaw)
