#ceremonies

Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#changed #doctrines #more #names #readily

I don't have to participate in another culture's ceremonies in order to respect that culture. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#ceremonies #culture #i #order #participate

To believe that patriotism will not flourish if patriotic ceremonies are voluntary... is to make an unflattering estimate of the appeal of our institutions to free minds. ↗

— Robert Jackson

#believe #ceremonies #estimate #flourish #free

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. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ceremonial #ceremonies #desire #ever #exclusively

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#attending #awards #behind #being #ceremonies

I'm hoping that maybe everyone on the Olympic team thinks that I'm worthy to carry the flag. That's my next goal, to carry the flag during the opening ceremonies, if everyone chooses me. ↗

— Picabo Street

#ceremonies #chooses #during #everyone #flag

The show is being changed right now, by the way. Jeff Burke is doing it for the Magic Kingdom. And I think it will be better, with new birds, master of ceremonies, etc. ↗

— John Hench

#better #birds #ceremonies #changed #doing

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them. ↗

— Annette Bening

#awards #ceremonies #during #feet #husband

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on. ↗

— Stockwell Day

#because #being #british #british columbia #ceremonies

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese. ↗

— Iris Chang

#came #ceremonies #chinese #colony #few