Ceremonial Quotes

Medical knowledge and technical savvy are biodegradable. The sort of medicine that was practiced in Boston or New York or Atlanta fifty years ago would be as strange to a medical student or intern today as the ceremonial dance of a !Kung San tribe would seem to a rock festival audience in Hackensack.

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.

Gay marriage is the last bastion of, to me... as a legal, ceremonial, sentimental and religious side, it's one of the last steps. Retaining your job being one of the earlier steps, like, not getting kicked out of your job because you're gay.

My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom.

The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism.

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.