Quotes About Celebration

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

Some people define themselves by railing against all of the things they hate, while explaining why everyone else should hate it too. But not me. I prefer to lead with my love--to define myself through joyous yawps of admiration, instead of cynical declarations of disdain.

Dancing games.

Ladies and gentlemen," he said. "Please welcome…the original seven members of the greatest band in the world…Morris Day and the Time!" That was when I realized how I knew them—from their cameo at the end of Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. And the DJ who had just introduced them was an NPC of Jason Mewes, probably cut and pasted here from Askewniverse in Sector Sixteen.

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

There was ease in Casey's manner as he stepped into his place,There was pride in Casey's bearing, and a smile on Casey's face,And when, responding to the cheers, he lightly doffed his hat,No stranger in the crowd could doubt 'twas Casey at the bat.

La letteratura è un traguardo che non risponde a generi né a temi. Avviene, e quando avviene è festa per chi legge.

I grab a sticky note from my bedside table. Reasons It's Okay to Be Me: 1. This is exactly how God wanted me to be. 2. We don't all have to be doctors! 3. If everyone were a genius, we would have no normal people, and then geniusness would be a normality. Without me, Zach is not a genius. 4. Even though it is for Zach, I still get Cheesecake Factory too! Yay!

In the Spanish-speaking Americas, Christmas is much more than a one-day event followed by a staggering credit card bill. The festivities last for weeks, beginning well before Christmas, and continuing straight through to the arrival of the Three Kings and the Feast of the Epiphany on January 6. Las Navidades involves a lot more partying and a lot less shopping than a US. Christmas.

A beautiful discipline of the soul can become sappy, mindless counsel, if we divorce it from the biblical roots of honesty, grief, lament, and genuine celebration from which it originates. No! If we are to live praising lives, robust lives of affirmation, we must live truly, honestly, and courageously. We cannot take shortcuts to the act of praising. We cannot praise prematurely.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

Where there is no wine there is no love.

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

It was a lovely church - one of those places which look as though God might be about to give a marvellous party.

For attached to every wedding is that font of hope, that potential piece of manna, the best man.

When my daughter was born, I called her Ella Bella Mandela, because she was born the day after Mandela was released from prison.

After my first movie was released, my wife and I went Bouley. A fantastic meal. The whole thing, getting dressed up, acting very adult-y, a lot of fun.

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

Christmas is relentless. It's around the clock. I sit with my little ones in front of the TV screen, and we watch movie after movie after movie.

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

Yippee! I can't believe I made it. It feels like a long haul to get here. I'm so fine with it. People want you to have some sort of breakdown, but I'm relieved to be 40 years old, and I've lived a life.

There are those who argue that the public celebration of festivals such as Christmas should be discouraged, in the questionable belief that it might somehow offend those of other religions or none.

As my mother is a Kerala Brahmin and my father a Kerala Nair, every day in the house is like a religious festival.

We're not religious, but we've always done Passover and Hanukkah.