quotations about ceremony
Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of unity far beyond what you might expect.
DEL SUGGS
Truly Leading
The book of life will free this evil rising son
The diamonds edge must cut the eyes of love and lies
Now we wait for the night in the sky in the sky in the sky
Ceremony is passing by
My Voodoo Treasure makes you see
MAJESTIC
"Voodoo Treasure"
Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government.
CONFUCIUS
The Wisdom of Confucius
Nothing is more ridiculous or troublesome than mere ceremony.
FRENCH PROVERB
And what have kings that privates have not too,
Save ceremony, save general ceremony?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
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?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Henry V
We don't need no buried treasure,
No buried treasure; we don't need it.
We don't stand on ceremony,
But life is phony in spite of it.
KENNY ROGERS
"Buried Treasures"
The ceremonies that persist--birthdays, weddings, funerals-- focus only on ourselves, marking rites of personal transition.
ROBIN WALL KIMMERER
Braiding Sweetgrass
A king that discourages ceremony, is like the carpenter that sawed off the pieces of timber upon which he stood.
GEORGE SAVILE
attributed, The Magnificent Monarch