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Quotes About Celebration

During their long period of unease about a hot Christmas, Australians rarely noticed that they had more access than their British relatives to a vital part of the traditional Christmas story: 'the stars in the bright sky'. Eventually they ceased to lament that their Christmas came in hot weather.
~ Geoffrey Blainey
Whan that the month of MayIs comen, and that I here the foules synge,And that the floures gynnen for to sprynge,Farewel my bok, and my devocioun!
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
It snewed in his hous of mete and drynke.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
What would you like to drink? You do drink, don't you? -Oh, sure! I drink like a fish!
~ George Axelrod
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
~ George Bernard Shaw
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
~ George Burns
It's nice to be here. When you're 99 years old, it's nice to be anywhere.
~ George Burns
I'm very pleased to be here. Let's face it, at my age I'm very pleased to be anywhere.
~ George Burns
The Pope's entrance was stunning. Maybe the Catholics know about miracles, and maybe they know about saints, but they've never received enough credit for what they know about show business.
~ George Burns
Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.
~ George Burns
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
~ George Burns
There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting
~ George Carlin
We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing.
~ George Carlin
Ain't nothin' but a party!
~ George Clinton
Jaq has put on her gown, her long silver gown, and she's rebraided her hair and applied her makeup, and she's breathtakingly beautiful. She has her backpack on and her bike helmet. Roxanne says, "What's this?" Jaq says, "I'm going to the Ball, Mama.
~ George Dawes Green
Relief pitchers have only recently begun receiving proper recognition. When Whitey Ford rose at the New York Baseball Writers banquet to receive the Cy Young Award for the 1961 season, he said he had a nine-minute speech but would deliver only seven minutes of it. He would let Luis Arroyo, who had saved so many of Ford's wins, do the final two minutes.
~ George F. Will
The Khanum?" Arland coughed. The last sip of tea must've gone wrong. "Are you unwell?" Dagorkun inquired. "Healthy as a krahr," Arland said. "That's such a relief. I would hate for some illness to interfere and spoil the grand celebration I planned when I send you to your afterlife.
~ Ilona Andrews
As long as you were willing to drink beer, get rowdy, and proclaim yourself a Viking, you had a place at their table.
~ Ilona Andrews
What is this Christmas?" Wing asked. Orro turned from the stove. "It's the rite of passage during which the young males of the human species learn to display aggression and use weapons." Sean
~ Ilona Andrews
Red wine?" Fiona squinted at the glass. "Kate, if you spill the wine on yourself, they'll bury you in this dress." "Maybe wine isn't a good idea," George said.
~ Ilona Andrews
Nothing kills a party like an oversized metal hedgehog.
~ Ilona Andrews
Hun ba for de døde og sendte lykkønskningsbrev til de levende hver gang det var bryllup eller barnedåp - akkurat som engelskmennene i koloniene, som drakk seg fulle i all ensomhet hver gang London feiret dronningens fødselsdag.
~ Irene Nemirovsky
The new world, he thought, the new life, and how sad it is. I suppose I should be congratulating myself, it may even be that later I shall look back on this as heaven.
~ Iris Murdoch
Well, everything's nicer when you can think about Christmas.
~ Iris Murdoch