29 Rite Quotes for You to Enjoy

For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying. Linda Sanchez

Bullying Day Silence Change Every Day Speak School Long Labeling Every Society Too Our Those Rite Students Simply Over Over It Attitudes Passage Bullied Off End Up Get Afraid Break Asking Need

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill

Life Smoking Drinking Before Alcohol Intervals Rule Rite Absolutely Sacred Between Also After Meals Them Prescribed Need

Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity. Jason Fried

Stupidity Mark Rite Passage Exhaustion Sustained

State-sanctioned marriage is a civil contract, period. A contract is not a judgment of moral value. It is a legal agreement between two parties that testifies to a meeting of minds between those consenting entities. It is not a religious act or rite and so has nothing to do with Adam and Eve or Steve or even Harvey. Harvey Fierstein

Legal Marriage Value Judgment Nothing Meeting Minds Those Harvey Moral Religious Civil Entities Rite Between Steve Parties Period Contract Act Eve Even Agreement Adam Adam And Eve Consenting Two

There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. Penn Jillette

Music You Arrogance Somebody Spring Tremendous Tremendous Amount Once Minutes Classical About Classical Music Something Rite Look Talk Understand Hubris Five Listen Where Whether Century Dismiss Gaming Stravinsky Amount

'Middle class' used to mean having two children and sending them to high-quality public schools, or even occasionally to private schools. It meant new brown Stride Rite Mary Janes with little purple and silver flowers when the old shoes were pinching the toes. Alissa Quart

Class Old Shoes Public Schools Stride Brown Silver Having Purple High-Quality Rite Mary New Schools Occasionally Private Were Pinching Private Schools Sending Middle Children Middle Class Public Little Mean Them Toes Meant Used Even Flowers Two

I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world. Amy Sherald

Me Heart Waiting Doctor World Aid Months Spent Out Percent Rite Hospital End End Of The World Transplant Function Two

A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy. Brad Feld

Health Good Good Health You Rite Health Insurance Insurance Passage America Turn

In my formative years, I never missed the 'Creature Double Feature' on Saturday afternoon TV, even if it meant switching back and forth between 'Gamera' and the Red Sox. I did a book report on Stephen King's 'Night Shift' in seventh grade. Unrated Italian horror movies became a weekly rite of passage once I hit seventeen. Chuck Hogan

Book King Back Seventeen Once Seventh TV Horror Horror Movies Feature Rite Weekly Never Red Between Missed Red Sox Became Passage Shift Italian Years Hit Report Did Grade Sox Afternoon Formative Movies Double Forth Meant Even Creature Switching Saturday Night

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. Danny Glover

Education Freedom School Active Summer Project High High School Rite Almost Voter Mississippi Massive Becoming Passage Graduated

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically. Esa-Pekka Salonen

Music People Spring Symphony Physically Rite Feel End Want

I enjoyed acting at school and went to an acting workshop for kids in Nottingham. It was twice a week after school and free to go to - ITV subsidised it. Every now and again, a casting director would turn up. 'Peak Practice' became a rite of passage for us. It was the first job I had. Joe Dempsie

Director School Job Free First Practice Every Kids Would Casting Rite Week Had First Job Became Passage Go Up After After-School Again Turn Us Acting Workshop Now Twice Twice A Week Peak Enjoyed

Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our backs when we're like 16 or 17; it's just a rite of passage. That movie is so, so, so huge. John Krasinski

Good Will Think Our Backs Hunting Poster Boston Rite Like Passage Huge Get Tattooed Just Being Movie

Cinema was my rite of passage. John Singleton

Cinema Rite Passage

I went to a music academy in Los Angeles, and some friends started playing me Ravel and Prokofiev, who I liked, but what really blew me away was 'The Rite of Spring.' That's what made me get interested in classical music for real and want to study it. Kamasi Washington

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My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road. Kenny Loggins

Life World Rite Road New Passage Brave Brave New World New World

It's a rite of passage for all women to make sure the next generation is in a better place than you. I will play my part. Lucy Bronze

You Generation Women Better Will All Women Rite Better Place Part Make Sure Passage Than Place Next Next Generation Play

Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a stand against petty or protracted hostility between girls. Rachel Simmons

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young. Robin Marantz Henig

Invent Young Seems Rite Generational Almost Stereotypes Passage Dumping Middle-Aged

Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it. Steve Earle

Doubt About Rite Any Pagan Funerals

I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it can so traumatise you, your life changes direction. The beauty of the harmony of nature that is forever lost, or a daily rite that you perform, or diving into the sea for a swim. Those experiences are going to mark you. Toni Servillo

Life Death Daily Nature You Cause Beauty Lost Think Changes Mark Harmony Those Life Changes Direction Rite Diving Never Perform Cured Forever Going Experiences Your Sea Swim Injure Injury

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