Rites Quotes

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

Religion, Country, Sign

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

Emotional, Spring, Young

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

Silence, Speech, Misery

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

Happiness, Alone, Wife

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

Two, Wrong, Crime

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

Interested, Stories, Passage

Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.
J. G. Ballard

Humor, Good, Writing

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

Children, Parents, Reveal

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

Religion, Time, Good

Especially these days where everything is so polite and so proper, I think that rites of passage are good.
Emile Hirsch

Good, Everything, Days

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

Religion, Nothing, May

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

Travel, Dedicated, Secular

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

Life, Beautiful, Through

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

Religion, Blessed, Care

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