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Quotes About Festivity

The bells rang, and everybody smiled.
~ Jane Austen
On one side was a table occupied by some chattering girls, cutting up silk and gold paper; and on the other were tressels and trays, bending under the weight of brawn and cold pies, where riotous boys were holding high revel; the whole completed by a roaring Christmas fire, which seemed determined to be heard, in spite of all the noise of the others.
~ Jane Austen
And, then, sometime between December 26 and January 1, the festivity ends and I straggle back to my apartment feeling exhausted, broke, and somehow lonelier than before. This is when I start wondering if it might not be better for everyone if Christmas were an event staged every four years, like the Olympics. But
~ Jane Green
Holiday Association.
~ Jane Smiley
Calories don't count if they're connected to a celbration. Everyone knows this.
~ Janet Evanovich
That's what the prom is—St. Patrick's Day for the young.
~ Tim Tharp
The entire square was filled with villagers, young and old, all decked out in medieval dress. It looked like a renaissance fair, only without the funnel cakes and ATM machines labeled Queen's Treasury.
~ Tim Waggoner
I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.
~ TobyMac
It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
~ Zane Grey
When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.
~ Holly Hunter
Diwali is really a happy time. It's a festival of lights. That's the only time when the entire family comes together and celebrates together.
~ Shamita Shetty
I prefer my water in wine form.
~ P.C. Cast
Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.
~ Walter Moers
Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.
~ Mira Nair
Christians in North America and Europe have always looked forward to celebrating Christmas.
~ William J. Bennett
We were supposed to write why we're excited about the grand opening and, well, balloons are always my favorite part.
~ Chris Grabenstein
Wolves are hosting wedding feasts and witches are brushing their hair today." Presence
~ Helen Oyeyemi
Bells rang, the stewards rushed forward, and—like rye shaken together in a shovel—the guests who had been scattered about in different rooms came together and crowded in the large drawing-room by the door of the ballroom.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Christians... get Christmas under control. Seriously. It won't stop! It doesn't stop does it? It's always Christmas now! Make it the whole year! It's the only time you pricks are happy!
~ Lewis Niles Black
Holi is here and I urge everyone to experience 'Rang De' with their families.
~ Nithiin
The great thing about candy is that it can't be spoiled by the adult world. Candy is innocent. And all Halloween candy pales next to candy corn, if only because candy corn used to appear, like the Great Pumpkin, solely on Halloween.
~ Rosecrans Baldwin
People value Halloween, like Valentine's Day, because they can tell themselves that it's not merely secularized but actually secular, which is to say, not Christian, Jewish, Hindu or Muslim.
~ Amity Shlaes
My birthday is two days before Valentine's Day so it has always been about that rather than romance.
~ A. J. Odudu
Everybody loves to show up at the party once all the hard work is done.
~ Rick Riordan