Quotes About Festivities

As Brits, we love a do, don't we? I adore our national celebrations. If I see a gold coach, you almost need to put me in a straitjacket, I get so excited.

My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.

I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house. And I love Thanksgiving, because of the football and the fall weather. And of course, I love Christmas - that's my favorite of all!

I celebrate three holidays: Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Telluride.

I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.

Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.

Christmas celebrations in the early colonies to the condemnations today of the commercial nature of the feast.

The winter light, tinted by the bright colors in the street, plays on the go-board. All these festivities cut me off from the rest of the world. My loneliness is like a bolt of crimson silk stowed in the bottom of a wooden chest.

Marriage was a Sacrament, yet these festivities more often resembled pagan rites than Christian nuptials.

I love the whole Punjabi culture as I have seen it very closely in Delhi in my growing up years.

My father used to celebrate all festivals like Eid, Diwali, Holi, Christmas, etc. with great gusto.

I don't really dress up for Halloween.

I love Halloween. I love Thanksgiving. I love Christmas. I love New Year's.

In Germany, we do not have Halloween, which is a shame.

Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought.

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

It probably goes without saying that I enjoy the potato pancakes, delicious hams and so forth that maddeningly turn up at this time of year.

Festivals are a time to play the songs people know and are looking forward to hearing.

CHAPTER LX AGAIN AT MISTLETOE

Hanukkah, officially instituted by the Hasmoneans, was, like Tabernacles, eight days, and it was also the eight-day period corresponding to the pagan winter solstice festivities celebrating the return of light, lustily celebrated in Greece and Rome. Triumphal days in the Greek style – like the Day of Nicanor commemorating the defeat of that general – were added to the calendar.

Ganpati festivities bring a lot of joy to us but the rituals can cause a lot of harm to the marine life. For my family, only eco-friendly Ganpati completes this festival of joy in the true sense.

If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.

What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness?

You always notice the holidays more when you feel the most alone.