Male circumcision has been practiced for thousands of years and is a deeply important ceremony for two major religions.

- Brad Sherman

I treat my relationships like marriages. The ceremony isn't that important to me.

- Charlize Theron

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

- David Antin

Because Ernest Lawrence's award came in the war years, I had the unusual opportunity of attending his Nobel Prize presentation ceremony.

- Luis Walter Alvarez

On the fortieth day after his death, we held the ceremony, and I performed for the very first time.

- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

I enjoy ritual and ceremony. What I don't like is when it's badly done or sloppily done. This is actually a theological issue - the forms we adopt, the actions we take, the way we do things, are, as it were, a sacrament.

- Peter Hollingworth

Getting married isn't going to make your relationship better. It's just a ceremony.

- Rob Lowe

I believe in ceremony. I think ceremony is important, pomp and circumstance, tradition. I'm into those things.

- Rob Lowe

For me, one of the most interesting columns to write was about Dick Cheney when he represented the U.S. at a commemorative ceremony at Auschwitz.

- Robin Givhan