96 Ritual Quotes for You to Enjoy

We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more. John Hench

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy. Jonathan Kozol

Christmas Charity People Ritual Blasphemy Accept Well-Timed Beg Eve Christmas Eve

You know what I like to do on a Sunday morning? Clean my house. I really enjoy it; it's my ritual. I require tidiness, actually. I have to have everything spotless before I can relax. Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Morning You Relax Sunday Before Enjoy Everything Sunday Morning Clean Ritual Like Know House Really Require Actually

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation. Jonathan Sacks

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When I was growing up, hand washing was a ritual, but now it's a necessity. A child dies every 15 seconds from preventable causes, which has got to stop. Kajol

Every Seconds Preventable Ritual Got Causes Hand Up Child Dies Stop Which Washing Growing Growing Up Now Necessity

I don't have a special place or ritual for writing songs, basically I write songs whenever an idea hits me, in my hotel room, on the road, in the plane. Kelly Jones

Me Writing Ritual Write Songs Road Idea Hotel Hotel Room Hits Whenever Place Room Plane Special Special Place Basically

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat. Lexa Doig

Thought Cute Suicide Ritual Name Japanese Coat

I never eat standing up, I never eat in front of the refrigerator. I treat myself very formally with meals. I don't watch TV or read. It's a little bit of a ritual, and it's more enjoyable. Mark Morris

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. Marshall McLuhan

Every Society Evoking Members Indifferent Ritual Occasion Provided Commercial Essentially Ascetic Social Whose Right Tone

Just as there are many Jews who keep the Friday ritual in their home despite describing themselves as atheists, I am a 'tribal Christian,' happy to attend church services. Martin Rees

Home Happy Church Tribal Christian Jews Despite Atheists Ritual Attend Am Friday Just Themselves Who Many Describing Keep Services

I have a very wonderful bath ritual. Michael Bastian

Wonderful Bath Ritual Very

I like to think that the best poetry is or involves a contest between ordinary conversation and ritual. Miller Williams

Best Conversation Think Poetry Ritual Between Like Involves Contest Ordinary

Instead of a dedicated room, my best trigger is the actual habit of reading over the texts from the day before. Marking. Changing. Fussing. This ritual amounts to a habit of trust. Trust that I can make it better. That if I keep trying, I will come closer to something true. Mona Simpson

Best Day Trust Better Will Reading Before Changing Marking Trigger Something Habit Ritual Instead True Over Come Make Texts Trying Closer Room Dedicated Keep Actual Amount

Anything that keeps you happy and writing is part of my writing ritual: I like music, so I tend to have it playing in the background. But if I'm interested, I can write in an airport waiting areas. Neil Gaiman

Music You Happy Waiting Writing Background Airport Area Tend Ritual Write Part Like Anything Interested Keeps Playing

All great cinema has the sense of the dynamic, the transitional, mixed with the mythical and the sense of ritual. Neri Oxman

Great Cinema Sense Ritual Mythical Mixed Dynamic Transitional

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. Nicolas Cage

Family People Losing Parents Become Jobs Kind Entertained Seeing Ritual Look Make Children Want Movies Forward Need

My earliest memory was watching my mother do her makeup. She was obsessed with beauty and collected makeup and experimented with it. I think it's a lot of young men and women's experiences, growing up: watching the ritual of what their mothers would do. Pat McGrath

Memory Women Mother Men Beauty Young Think Collected Would Ritual Obsessed She Makeup Mothers Lot Up Experiences Young Men Growing Growing Up Her Earliest Watching

If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too. Patrick Wilson

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I have a little yoga ritual that I do just to move my body around. Whatever I do, it's usually very fast because often I don't have the kind of time that I would like to. Pramila Jayapal

Time Whatever Kind Would Ritual Like Because Around Very Yoga Often Move Just Little Body Fast

Oh, yeah, I'm all about ritual. Rashid Johnson

About Ritual Yeah Oh Oh Yeah

Growing up in Ireland, when my family received important news, good or bad, we would boil water and make tea. It was the first thing I did when my father died in 1984. This ritual allowed me a moment to take in the enormity of what had happened. Roma Downey

Good News Family Me Water Father First Important Tea Enormity Bad Would Ritual Take Had Allowed Make First Thing Up Ireland Did Died The First Thing Happened Moment Boil Growing Growing Up Thing Received

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