Famous quotes containing the words rites and/or passage:
“According to his virtue let us use him,
With all respect and rites of burial.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs 29:18.
President John F. Kennedy quoted this passage on the eve of his assassination in Dallas, Texas. Quoted in Theodore C. Sorenson, Kennedy, epilogue (1965)