Quotes About Celebration

I'm proud to live in a country where our differences are celebrated - and if we continue to embrace them, then there will be no limit to our creative success.

There's no problem with a guard of honour in any way.

I don't think I've ever met a twenty-two-year-old who's never had a drink.

I knew that families had their own holiday traditions, but ours seemed to keep us dispersed while Bryce's gathered them together.

The idea of a New York Christmas

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself

So, as she walked down the stairs into the club, she was looking forward to a seething, teeming, wriggling, wiggling throng of dancers, many of whom she'd recognize: she wanted to see former pupils, local shopkeepers, museum regulars, all of whom would look at her as if to say, Here we are! What kept you?

Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've got literature?

Being gay was a bit like the Olympics: It disappeared in ancient times, and then they brought it back in the twentieth century.

Even the Brazilian way of celebrating a goal - run four strides, jump, punch, run four strides, jump, punch - was alien and funny and enviable, all at the same time.

People are all the fun in life - Candido's Apocalypse

I danced the only way I knew how to dance: for life, crashing into the chairs, and spinning until I fell, so that I could get up and dance again, until dawn broke and found me prostrate on the floor, so close to death that I could spit into it and whisper: L'chaim.

FOR SONIA SANCHEZ

Poems are not advertisements braying For the good life They have serious work to do Birthing people burying people Celebrating joy mourning loss

I don't fear death; I welcome it with open arms and a smirk. But until that wondrous day, I will continue to savor and celebrate all those who have graduated before me.

The more he approached the people and perceived their anger-filled eyes and the dark, tortured fierceness of their expressions, the more his heart stirred, the more his bowels flooded with deep sympathy and love. These are the people, he reflected. They are all brothers, every one of them, but they do not know it—and that is why they suffer. If they knew it, what celebrations there would be, what hugging and kissing, what happiness!

Nu-i r?spundeam; ascultându-l pe Zorbas, simÈ›eam c? lumea îÈ™i recap?t? fericirea în fiecare clip?. Lucruri de zi cu zi, p?lite de mult, îÈ›i rec?p?tau str?lucirea pe care o avuseser? la început, când ieÈ™ir? din mâinile Domnului. Apa, femeia, pâinea reveneau la izvorul primordial, tainic, È™i roata divin? prindea din nou avânt în slava cerului.

IOX. Io means 'shout.' X is ten. It's a Roman cheer for victory: 'Shout ten times!

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Men shake hands after they beat each other up; we eat chocolate.

Let's go have lotsa drunk sex before it hits. 'Kay. Drunk sex for everybody!

Everyone needs cake, Del.

Obviously at wit's end, he scrubbed his hands over his face. "Doesn't your breed stop having birthdays at forty?" "We may stop counting, Dr. Carnegie, but that doesn't mean we don't expect an appropriate gift on the occasion.