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Quotes About Celebration

8 de octubre - Cuando me he despertado, el primer pensamiento que me ha venido ha sido: Es el cumpleaños de Madre, tengo que ser muy buena. He ido corriendo a desearle un feliz cumpleaños y le he dado un beso. Después del desayuno, cada uno le ha dado su regalo. Yo le he hecho una cruz de musgo y una poesía. No teníamos que ir a la escuela y he estado jugando en el bosque y he recogido hojas rojas.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child.
~ Ron Rash
Life is one grand sweet song so start the music
~ Ronald Reagan
la vida siempre acaba mal? Según una tradición gitana, si acudes a un festejo social, a una boda, a un bautizo, no debes desear felicidades, como es habitual, sino «malos principios». Porque, con sabiduría milenaria forjada por unas condiciones de vida difíciles, conocen que la desgracia es inevitable en la existencia; y entonces prefieren desear que la cuota de dolor venga primero, para que así el final sea venturoso.
~ Rosa Montero
I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Crusty brown bread, butter, and a pot of pâté de foie gras; chicken Kiev, and the makings of a salad. Olive oil, fresh peaches, cheeses; a bottle of Scotch, a couple of bottles of wine. She bought flowers, an armful of daffodils
~ Rosamunde Pilcher
Quando o Pereba chegou, eu enchi os copos e disse, que o próximo ano seja melhor. Feliz Ano Novo.
~ Rubem Fonseca
Kenji knew people who knew how to party, and so when it was time to transport their friend's body to the crematorium, the musicians canceled the hearse and took matters into their own hands. Annabelle went along with them. The coffin was heavy, but Kenji added little to its weight, and so they were able to lift it, taking turns carrying it on their shoulders, New Orleans–style, through the narrow back alleys and the dark, rain-slick streets.
~ Ruth Ozeki
If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance. So we cultivate the ignorance, go to great lengths to celebrate it, even.
~ Ruth Ozeki
The celebration had to be postponed: Carol had ovarian cancer. She refused to be gloomy about it.
~ Ruth Reichl
any pop song in this particular country, when sung by several citizens at once, tended to turn into a mindless celebration devoid of any genuine sense of melancholy.
~ Ry? Murakami
I mean, he didn't get in till four. He hosted a party at Neuralgio's for our new French author, Claude Nasal-Passages, and then everybody went on to the Twelve Apostles.
~ S.J Perelman
The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I'm in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know!
~ S.M. Stirling
She dreamed of him, his face, filling the dream. Things are ending, he told her. This civilization; things are closing in on it. It has been quite a culture, brilliant and foul, cannibal and Christian, the glory of the world. We should celebrate it while we can; until night falls. She didn't agree, not even in the dream, but she knew, as she dreamed, that there was no point telling him now.
~ Salman Rushdie
Happy birthday, Nicaragua. I drank a toast in the best rum in the world, Flor de Caña Extra Seco. Mixed with Coke, it was called a Nica-libre, and after a few glasses I was ready to take on the salsa champions and knock them dead. I went outside to dance.
~ Salman Rushdie
Life has vanquished death and even the furniture celebrates.
~ Salman Rushdie
OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless.
~ Salman Rushdie
We celebrate donut culture, it's sweet and it tastes good but there's a void at the heart
~ Salman Rushdie
You're so sexy, René. I'm serious. You're a sexpot." Maybe weddings bring out the romance in us all.
~ Salman Rushdie
And that must be his Alleluia, his Icequeen Cone!
~ Salman Rushdie
like flies, only more foolish, because we celebrated our captivity.
~ Salman Rushdie
The neighbors find the event a great cause for celebration and honor the young man's parents by giving them gifts of food and money.
~ Sam Harris
I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggguulliing...We're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!
~ Joe Namath
Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.
~ Kasey Keller