Quotes About Celebration

As radioman Rudolf-Günter Wagner broadcast the news to the crowds of newly liberated Berliners, his words were drowned out by joyous whoops and shrieks. "Hurrah!" they shouted. "Wir leben Noch!" (We're still alive!). Berliner Manfred Knopf had lived through four years of uncertainty. Now he felt a sense of victory. "We belonged to the Western world!

When we relate from Essence, the dominant feeling is acceptance: You allow others to be the way they are. In fact, you celebrate how they are. This doesn't mean you might not dislike something about them, but the general feeling toward them is that everything is just right as it is.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Show us the world's not the way we thought it was and part of us rejoices.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

The things you regret sometimes turn out to be the things you celebrate. In other words: You learn from what you do wrong.

Most of all, I love graduations. They are individual and communal, an end and a beginning, more permanent than weddings, more inclusive than religions, and possibly the most moving ceremonies on earth.

I remember with gratitude the banner carried by some very old and bawdy women who led the parade while I was a student: hardly a man is now alive, who remembers the girls of '95.)

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world. – Norman Vincent Peale

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

In all of living, have much fun and laughter. Life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

I don't get drunk — I get awesome.

St. Patrick was a gentleman Who, through strategy and stealth, Drove all the snakes from Ireland; Here's a bumper to his health. But not too many bumpers, Lest we lose ourselves, and then— Forget the good St. Patrick And see the snakes again.

I see life as a great banquet at which I'm the honored guest, along with my brothers the deer and the bear and the raccoon and the salamander and the eagle and the fly.

Tear up your frustrations into confetti dreams.

Here's to a long life and a merry one A quick death and an easy one A pretty girl and an honest one A cold beer and another one!

Wine upon beer is very good cheer; beer upon wine consider with fear.

Our Lager, which art in barrels, Hallowed be thy Drink. Thy will be drunk at home, As it is in the pub. Give us this day our foamy head. And forgive us our spillages, As we forgive those who spill against us. And lead us not into incarceration, But deliver us from hangovers. For thine is the beer, The bitter, the lager. For ever and ever. Barmen.