Quotes About Celebration

Still ours the dance, the feast, the glorious Psalm, The mystic lights of emblem, and the Word.

los muertos por mal que lo hayan hecho siempre salen a hombros»

Trabajo, alegría y fiesta forman un contínuum psicológico. Solo una vida con un trabajo lleno de sentido hace al hombre alegre, y únicamente es posible celebrar una fiesta cuando esta se da en una persona cuya vida y cuyo trabajo siguen un camino, tienen una dirección que se rebasa a sí misma. Conviene

Me gustan mis fiestas de hombre solo. Son como la vida misma, como cualquier cuento de Felisberto Hernández: una fiesta incompleta, pero una fiesta de verdad.

Al final será verdad que el fin del mundo no está tan lejos. En realidad se ha visto venir siempre que ese fin no podía estar muy lejos. Mientras lo esperan, los seres humanos se entretienen celebrando funerales, pequeñas imitaciones del gran final por venir.

Mandami un pentolino di formaggio, perché io possa far baldoria quando ne ho voglia.

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mine It will be a holiday of the senses

Eyes glazed over as the great rice-wine parties in the highlands were recalled, parties that are no longer held since the arrival of the mission. Bario has become a good, clean, upstanding, sober, hard-working Christian community. What a loss for these fun-loving and generous people.

I bring messages and thanks from the others. Terry Gilliam sadly can't be with us tonight as they won't let him show his ass, which has been very favorably compared with Spielberg's ass. Graham Chapman can't be with us tonight, as sadly he is still dead. And John Cleese is finishing a movie. He has to get it back to Blockbuster by tomorrow.

Have you ever watched someone become American? Last week, at a national citizenship conference I organize, thirty immigrants from 17 countries swore an oath and became citizens of the United States. It was a stirring experience for the hundreds of people in the room.

They forgot about all of their differences and all of their frustrations, because the ones who had won the game represented all of the people of Philly.

Glory, glory, said the Bee, Hallelujah, said the Flea. Praise the Lord, remarked the Wren. At springtime all is born-again.

The date was appropriate for his debut, for it was—certainly unbeknownst to Wilberforce—the fiftieth birthday of George Washington, the man who had driven Lord North and King George to the brink of madness and frustration

It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."32

The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seems to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

Bonhoeffer's theology had always leaned toward the incarnational view that did not eschew "the world," but that saw it as God's good creation to be enjoyed and celebrated, not merely transcended.

Surely this sabbath, of all others, calls forth these feelings in a supreme degree; a frame of united love and triumph well becomes it, and holy confidence and unrestrained affection.

Celebramos] con júbilo el cincuenta aniversario de nuestro Führer. En él, Dios le ha concedido al pueblo alemán un hacedor de milagros ... Que nuestra manera de darle las gracias sea la voluntad resuelta e inflexible de no decepcionar... a nuestro Führer en la gran hora histórica».

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.

Got it!" Mike announced. The GE record player slowly whirred to life, creaky as an old carousel. "Nice," John said, raising a beer in salute. "What'd you do?" "It wasn't on," Mike said.

That is the remarkable thing about drinking: it brings people together so quickly, but between night and morning it sets an interval again of years.

We all feel really blessed to have been with my dad for these 85 years.

My color is my joy and not my burden...