Bigamy is the only crime where two rites make a wrong.
Bob Hope

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.
Aeschylus

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
Pete Townshend

I've always been a fan of melody and emotional melancholy, whether it was Rites of Spring or Tears for Fears or Neil Young. If I hear a song that has a sweet melody, I'm a sucker for it, whether it's Linkin Park or Little Richard.
Dave Grohl

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.
William Robertson Smith

In course of time, religion came with its rites invoking the aid of good spirits which were even more powerful than the bad spirits, and thus for the time being tempered the agony of fears.
Paul Harris

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.
Robert Hughes

Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
Anthony Hecht

O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship.
Thomas Ken

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.
Guru Nanak

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo Machiavelli

To me rites of passage through life, that's a wonderful, beautiful thing.
Lance Henriksen