Ceremony Quotes - Page 8

• An emcee is a Master of Ceremonies. If you're an emcee, and I am an emcee... I rhyme, you know what I mean? I do things for my fans that still appreciate me, let them know what's coming.

  Styles P

  Mean, Appreciate, Emcee

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood.

  Pablo Neruda

  Children, Garden, Childhood

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “Winter garden”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• This is what rituals are for. We do spiritual ceremonies as human beings in order to create a safe resting place for our most complicated feelings of joy or trauma, so that we don't have to haul those feelings around with us forever, weighing us down.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Spiritual, Order, Joy

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.178, A&C Black

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• (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park was shown in Israel, it was condemned by some Orthodox rabbis because it accepted evolution and because it taught that dinosaurs lived a hundred million years ago-when, as is plainly stated at every Rosh Hashonhan and every Jewish wedding ceremony, the Universe is less than 6,000 years old.

  Carl Sagan

  Atheist, Israel, Years

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.416, Ballantine Books

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• He didn't see me looking at him, but I could tell the ceremony was having the same effect on him. He was enraptured. It was a rare and sweet look for him, reminding me of the tortured artist that lived beneath the sarcasm. I liked that about Adrian—not the tortured part, but the way he could feel so deeply and then transform those emotions into art.

  Richelle Mead

  Sweet, Art, Sarcasm

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.28, Penguin

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• I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Fun, Awards, Ordinary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No jot, iota, or tittle of the temple rites is otherwise than uplifting and sanctifying. In every detail the endowment ceremony contributes to covenants of morality of life, consecration of person to high ideals, devotion to truth, patriotism to nation, and allegiance to God.

  James E. Talmage

  Uplifting, Details, Covenant

  James E. Talmage (2015). “The House of the Lord”, p.102, Latter-day Strengths

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• If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.

  E. O. Wilson

  Love, Sex, Long

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• Classification of Christian children, as they plan it, are to be used as human sacrifice. Where? Within the black mass ceremonies, they will participate in any kind of sexual orgy, some to be kept as sexual slaves.

  Serge Monast

  Christian, Children, Sacrifice

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• When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Queens, Two, Common Purpose

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• The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules.

  Hosokawa Tadaoki

  Lying, Reality, Understanding

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• Mapping out dozens of deeply focused trips around the world has convinced me that preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony.

  Phil Cousineau

  Sports, Opportunity, Self

  Phil Cousineau (2012). “The Art of Pilgrimage: The Seeker's Guide to Making Travel Sacred”, p.71, Conari Press

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• We want to infuse our day with good habits so that we can turn seemingly mundane situations into a ceremony of goodness.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Want, Habit, Goodness

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• It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life. It is true. That moment when you walk into the Olympic Stadium as part of the Australian Olympic Team, is a moment that I will never forget.

  Jeff Fenech

  Team, Athlete, Opening Ceremony

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• Those who marry God can become domesticated too - it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word Love means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and Ave Maria like dearest is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves - it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Mean, Night

  Graham Greene (2010). “A Burnt Out Case”, p.6, Random House

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• I abjure you,” Alcide said. Colonel Flood winced, and young Sid, Amanda, and Culpepper looked both astonished and impressed, as if this were a ceremony they'd never thought to witness. “I see you no longer. I hunt with you no longer. I share flesh with you no longer.

  Charlaine Harris

  Flesh, Sids, Share

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.947, Penguin

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• 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.

  Michael Cunningham

  Party, Sick, Faces

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• In London I'm not seen in public. I don't go to award ceremonies or gatherings. I just don't go because I like my privacy. I like being with my family and I like being in their company. I work very hard and I don't have much time so I just want to be with my family or in the English countryside. I don't take holidays.

  Marco Pierre White

  Holiday, Awards, Gathering

  Source: www.notquitenigella.com

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• "Religions" of the Roman world varied. Most of it was ritual practices. There were periodic occasions when cities honored their guardian deities with sacrifices and ceremonies, to ensure that they stayed happy and kept the city safe.

  Larry Hurtado

  Sacrifice, Practice, Cities

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• I'm thankful for the position that I'm in, I'm thankful to go to the ceremony [of Grammys] the first time, thankful for everything. I'm just taking it step by step.

  Tory Lanez

  Firsts, Steps, First Time

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The only time there's gonna be a transgender bathroom in the White House is during a gay rights ceremony. You know as well as I do that that's not going to happen.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Gay, Rights, White

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As soon as the guards where gone, I lay down on my stone bench and dumped the king and his threats out of my head without ceremony. They were too unpleasant to worry over anyway.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Worry, Gone

  Megan Whalen Turner (2009). “The Thief”, p.17, Harper Collins

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• I just think to be in that place, to be surrounded as I will and for my brief moment in the inauguration ceremony by my wife and by my children and my daughter-in-law, with family looking on from behind us in the platform and many Hoosiers coming to be out in the crowds, I expect - it's again, it will be very, very humbling.

  Mike Pence

  Daughter, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• There's a beauty shop companion called School of Beauty, School of Culture at the Birmingham Museum of Art. I got an email that said a couple had a guerrilla wedding in front of that picture. They slipped into the museum with a preacher and had their wedding ceremony in front of it. It turns out that the woman is a beautician and the man is a barber, they had seen that picture, and they said it was the perfect place to get married.

  Kerry James Marshall

  Art, Couple, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence on the great forces we do not understand.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Fear, Loss, Force

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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