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Guardian angels of the home - Rose and soft green Healing angels - Deep sapphire blue Angels of maternity and birth - Sky blue Ceremonial angels - White Angels of music - White Nature angels - Apple green Angels of beauty and art - Yellow.... -- Geoffrey Hodson
The exercises of our meeting are to be simple and devoid of all ceremonial and formalism. -- Felix Adler
Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz. -- Joy Harjo
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. -- J. L. Austin
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom. -- Franz Boas
If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way. -- Dalai Lama
Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have. -- Hayley Atwell
Far better to be the simplest pedestrian, with knapsack on back, stick in hand, and gun on shoulder, than an Indian prince travelling with all the ceremonial which his rank requires. -- Jules Verne
I was interviewing an elder, Chief Fool's Crow, who was the ceremonial chief. He was 103 years old. I was getting his information on the history of Lakota horses. He told me the story of Hidalgo and Frank Hopkins. -- John Fusco
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet dance flirtation and embrace, upon which the zoological survival of the human species has always been predicated. -- Albert Murray
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
Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down. -- Nancy Gibbs
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land. -- Quentin Bryce
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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. -- Gus Van Sant
A suit is just a suit: a practical garment, not a ceremonial robe; it can be worn out to dinner with friends or for a visit to an art gallery. Its beauty and craftsmanship are utterly wasted if you think of it as something magical and symbolic. -- Russell Smith
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. -- Lewis Thomas
Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard. -- Mason Cooley
Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. -- H. G. Wells
The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. -- Ugo Betti
The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence. -- Theodor Adorno
Flags are bits of colored cloth used first to shrinkwrap people's brains and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead. -- Arundhati Roy
Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank. -- John Ramsay McCulloch
Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation. -- Jamake Highwater
My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom -- Franz Boas
The voting records of virtually every member of Congress reveal that the oath of office is more a ceremonial gesture than a sacred commitment. -- Tom Coburn
For most Americans the Constitution had become a hazy document, cited like the Bible on ceremonial occasions but forgotten in the daily transactions of life. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The Sabbath, as now recognized and enforced, is one of the main pillars of Priestcraft and Superstition, and the stronghold of a merely ceremonial Religion. -- William Lloyd Garrison
Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour. -- Camille Paglia
Every premeditated murder is always governed by a preparatory ceremonial and is always followed by a propitiatory ceremonial. The meaning of both eludes the murderers mind. -- Jean Genet
Like or dislike her, the British Queen is harmless. Her role is purely ceremonial. Conversely, life and death are in the hands of the monarch who sits in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. -- Ilana Mercer
The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned and arrayed by law, custom, convention and ceremonial. -- Victor Turner
The ceremonial and religious uses of psychedelics are much older than their recreational uses and abuses. For most of their history, they have been mysterious, dangerous substances and must be treated respectfully. -- Humphry Osmond
There are many in the Church as well as out of it who need to learn that Christianity is neither creed nor a ceremonial, but a life vitaly connected with a loving Christ. -- Josiah Strong
Christianity has no ceremonial. It has forms, for forms are essential to order; but it disdains the folly of attempting to reinforce the religion of the heart by the antics of the mind. -- George Croly
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. -- Camille Paglia

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