Quotes About Celebration

A toast once heard: "To my big sister, who never found her second Easter egg until I'd found my first."

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?

Go fetch to me a pint o wine, an fill it in a silver tassie.

"Weel done, Cutty Sark!"

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,And never brought to min'?Should auld acquaintance be forgot,And days o' auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,For auld lang syne,We'll tak a cup o' kindness yetFor auld lang syne!

All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn." [ Brigs of Ayr ]

Partying is such sweet sorrow.

Earlier in the year, Trotsky had been shipped into exile in Turkey. Organized opposition was now at an end. The struggle for leadership was over, and Stalin was the victor. As if to mark this fact and formalize the outcome, his fiftieth birthday, on December 21, 1929, was officially celebrated with great fanfare. The party, over which the Stalin faction reigned supreme, saluted him on that occasion as Lenin's successor—the new vozhd'.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

Anyone found not enjoying themselves will be shot.

Strangers and a gleeman, fireworks and a peddler. It was going to be the best Bel Tine ever.

Lan Mandragoran, you bloody wonderful man! You did it! -Mat

The whole day of Bel Tine would be taken up with singing and dancing and feasting, with time out for footraces, and contests in almost everything. Prizes would be given not only in archery, but for the best with the sling, and the quarterstaff. There would be contests at solving riddles and puzzles, at the rope tug, and lifting and tossing weights, prizes for the best singer, the best dancer and the best fiddle player, for the quickest to shear a sheep, even the best at bowls, and at darts.

mirthful note was added many hours later. In my remarks at the swearing-in, I had said that my ninety-three-year-old mother was present for the ceremony. Comedian Conan O'Brien picked up on that on his show that night. He joked that my mother had come up to me after the ceremony, offered her congratulations, and then told me, "Now, go kick the Kaiser's ass.

There's adventure in the air. . . and cake to be eaten.

A fool and his money is one big party.

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

Thanksgiving should be celebrated in the spring...I think it would be ever so much better than having it in November when everything is dead or asleep. Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful...that they are alive, if for nothing else.

It's the birthday of our happiness, said Anne softly.

It seemed an hour to her before Diana came rushing along the hall and burst into the room without even knocking, so great was her excitement. "Anne, you've passed," she cried, "passed the very first—you and Gilbert both—you're ties—but your name is first. Oh, I'm so proud!