Quotes About Festivities

From New Year's Eve through the third of January, the streets of Tokyo grew quiet, as if all the people had disappeared.

Each age has deemed the new-born year The fittest time for festal cheer.

The handblown glass pickle ornaments from Lauscha in Germany can date back as far as 1847, and are treasured by families everywhere. The first child to spy the ornament on the tree Christmas morning gets an extra gift from Santa, and the first adult enjoys good luck all the year through.

We love to be with our family and friends and I can tell you that lots of eating will be involved.

It seemed to me that life in America was one long series of festivities, all of them celebrated with merriment and chocolate. The

It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.

Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.

One of the many reasons I love living in New York is that we get a front row seat to the innumerable thrills that take place here - from conventions and awards shows, to parades and U.N. assemblies. But my favorite New York tradition is the annual New Year's Eve ball-drop on Times Square.

Christmas traditions are important in my family. Being half English and half Polish-Lithuanian, we have two separate celebrations.

I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.

Kolkata is a very beautiful city and I have heard that it gets completely transformed during Durga Puja.

The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

I love all things Christmas.

I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

Well, because I have twin seven-year-old boys, I enjoy the gift giving stuff a great deal. We do both Hanukkah and Christmas, so it is a costly, though extremely pleasing proposition.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.

In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own.

We celebrated Christmas. Not religiously, but we did the tree and the lights. Hannukah always seemed not quite as thrilling - Sorry to my Jewish brothers and sisters! But when you're a kid, Santa and all that, you know, that really trumps the menorah. So we did Christmas.

I celebrate everything. We always had a menorah and a Christmas tree - not for any reason other than we always liked celebrating things.

With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.

I love weddings: happy people coming together to celebrate in great clothes.

We all know you can't have a Fourth of July barbecue without the fixings that go with it.