Quotes About Celebration

I watched Italia '90 with my Mum and Dad and my brother, you know, leaping around the house when the penalties were on... It would be great to be part of that, to have that kind of impact.

The high holy day of Google culture is April 1, when imaginations already encouraged to run wild are channeled into elaborate pranks requiring months of work. The effort involves considerable organization, as ideas go through an elaborate approval process to find a place in the company's ever-increasing roster of seasonal spoofs.

Then solar systems, galaxies, supernovas, infinite space itself will become elements of a final masterwork--a never-ending festival, a celestial amusement park in which every exploding star and spinning electron is part of the empyreal choreography.

If a third of the stories in the Decameron mock religion, two-thirds celebrate sex.

Our lives will be a wealth of expectation and consummation," says one character eagerly, and conspicuous consumption and concupiscent consummation intertwine in a heady celebration of the material world.

the stars. They were yesterday's confetti in the sky, thrown away by a billion careless lovers.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

Like a funeral, a birthday wasn't yours but for the people who loved you.

His laughter was the result of euphoria at finding himself alive and above ground.

To Finnigin, it was as if he was about to take part in a celebration for the clamour of the bells made him feel as if something amazing was about to happen.

Why have only one river goddess when you could have forty?

You are nearly a woman, and a wondrous woman at that!

We are simple folk, us Sacramantans. We need hope as well as despair for a good night out.

Then I shall look upon you as my right-hand woman." "Left hand," said Emilia, lifting her glass. "Let's get that right.

I felt heady in the swirl of colour, skirts of deep red, emerald green, peacock blue, the glint of yellow metal. Quick hands brushed our faces, and a blur of white-toothed smiles flashed around us. I couldn't help laughing aloud, batting these flapping creatures away from me. They were like soulscape harpies in plumage of white silk, who might carry us off to a final and exquisite devouring.

It is right and proper that Christian men should rejoice in whatever manner they feel is compatible with their experience of Christ and the wishes of the Christian community to which they belong.

She'd invited Oskan to the Yule Feast. Or rather, she'd sent a royal command ordering his presence on the twenty-first day of Icemas.

Granny had finished with dying, had died and was now dead – all very clear and distinct concepts in their minds. They were at ease with the finality. They know that the best memorial is a boxful of happy memories inside your head, and they know what a good death looks like.

The best memorial is a boxful of happy memories inside your head

O porque cumplí treinta y seis años a principios de agosto: sería de lo más oportuno. Treintaiseiscitis.

Hitesh, old flower, Christmas is exactly the same, it's you

Quinguagesima. St David's Day

if little is expected from someone, everything is a win and a cause for celebration. We are wired this way, as human beings; when the goal is low, most of us fall to it rather than set our aim beyond.

The house was filled with Christmas joy and intoxicating expectations~ pies cooling on the window sill, mistletoe hugs and kisses, tree lights sparkling, music playing, screen door slamming with the coming and going of starry-eyed kids. Grandma had her boys, Mom had her brothers. And we had our two uncles to tease and play with. Everyone was happy.