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“Living men are bound by time... Thus, their lives have an urgency. This gives them ambition. Makes them choose those things that are most important, cling more tightly to that which they hold dear. Their lives have seasons, and rites of passage, and consequences. And ultimately, an end. But what of a life with no urgency? What then of ambition? What then of love?”

Men Love Giving Important Ends Age Ambition Consequence Seasons Bounds Dear Passages Urgency Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Seth Grahame-Smith

“He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.”

Men Mean Littles Two Fall Fun Easy Nice Cry Knees Little Things Passages Very Nice Easy To Get Rite Rite Of Passage Nice Man

Book:The Dead Zone

Source: The Dead Zone

“I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain remote African tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.”

Source: A Question of Attraction: A Novel

“If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest.”

“Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.”

Source: No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life

“We have got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal rite of passage.”

Normal Myth Bullying Passages Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Barack Obama

“Getting a tattoo should hurt. It's a rite of passage.”

Should Hurt Passages Tattoo Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Jenna Jameson

“If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.”

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Author:Rennie Harris

“Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage.”

School Becoming Projects Summer High School Active Massive Voters Passages Mississippi Rite Rite Of Passage

Author:Danny Glover

“For too long, our society has shrugged off bullying by labeling it a 'rite of passage' and by asking students to simply 'get over it.' Those attitudes need to change. Every day, students are bullied into silence and are afraid to speak up. Let's break this silence and end school bullying.”

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Author:Linda Sanchez

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

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Author:Lance Henriksen

“The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.”

Writing Stills Problem Today Rocks Structure Dramatic Passages Rock And Roll Accompany Rite Swagger Swag Rite Of Passage

Author:Pete Townshend

“Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.”

Today Wealth Existence Raised Notion Secure Primaries Passages Rite Autonomous Rite Of Passage

Book:Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age

Source: Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age

“When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.”

“The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.”

Love Age Night Fire Grew Husband Grew Up My Husband Camps Passages Insignificant All Night Rite Camping Backpacking Rite Of Passage Build A Fire

Author:Sarah Wayne Callies

“Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic, practical joking affairs--which we ignore in the belief that they possess no deeper significance. Yet it is precisely in their being regarded as unimportant that they take on importance. For in them we ritualize and dramatize attitudes which contradict and often embarrass the sacred values which we proclaim through our solemn ceremonies and rituals of nationhood.”

“I think the prom is very serious also. It's an American ritual, it's a rite of passage, and it's very much a part of this country.”

Thinking Country Serious Ritual Passages Rite Prom Rite Of Passage

Author:Mary Ellen Mark

“It's a rite of passage for the everyman, to a higher ground.”

Philosophy Higher Passages Rite Rite Of Passage Everyman Higher Ground

Author:Bob Seger

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