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Quotes About Festivity

All my life, I have been a celebrant of Halloween. For me, it is the most important day of the year, the turning point in the old pagan calendar.
~ John Burnside
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
~ Mary Antin
Sometimes you just want to write a party song.
~ Shane McAnally
I'm tipsy." I corrected, "and it's my birthday and I want to dance. Come one, Linc, it won't kill you.
~ Jessica Shirvington
There is nothing more melancholy than empty festive places.
~ Susan Orlean
I feel there is a song for every occasion, and India is a land full of music.
~ Shankar Mahadevan
I actually feel sorry for people who have nothing to do on Christmas Day other than watch an NBA game.
~ Stan Van Gundy
We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gayety.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It was as Hester said, in regard to the unwanted jollity that brightened the faces of the people. Into this festal season of the year - as it already was, and continued to be during the greater part of two centuries - the Puritans compressed whatever mirth and public joy they deemed allowable to human infirmity; thereby so far dispelling the customary cloud, that, for the space of a single holiday, they appeared scarcely more grave than most other communities at a period of general affliction.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
We have yet to learn again the forgotten art of gaiety.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
It's February, and the walls are halfheartedly hung with Valentine's Day decorations that are supposed to add a sense of festivity, but just seem sadistic, because in an all-boys' detention center, only a select few are finding romance this year.
~ Neal Shusterman
Eat, drink, and be merry. Isn't that how it goes?- -There's a second part to that expression. But it's not nearly as much fun.-
~ Neal Shusterman
December 25, 1963 Christmas night and they've battered their heads together until they are silly and they've smiled themselves silly and vomited on the floor, 98% of them amateur drinkers, amateur Christians, amateur human beings
~ Charles Bukowski
Now let's each have a good tall drink to celebrate!
~ Charles Bukowski
The march is a way to get in celebration mode.
~ Charles Richards
I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays.
~ Parineeti Chopra
Whether it's Memorial Day or any other holiday, music has the power to set any mood and build long-lasting memories.
~ Nadia Ali
Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco.
~ Chip Conley
And they went off down the street, into the heart of Mardi Gras Day.
~ Tom Piazza
We're going to let go of the balloons now!" said Daisy Dawn, and Mia bleated like a sheep. "Baaaa.
~ Kerstin Gier
Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.
~ Kevin James
Champagne flowed like the Jamuna in flood.
~ Khushwant Singh
He'd already opened the first of what he hoped would be at least a couple of bottles of red wine. There would be no synthehol on the menu this evening.
~ Kirsten Beyer
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
~ Carl Sandburg