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Quotes About Celebration

Haloes of heat shimmer from the guests and their hosts. The candles burn brighter. The plump flies of dusk now congregate around the plates of cheese and crackers on the wooden table. From the cut glass bowl of children's punch, sweet rosy fumes spiral up into the air.
~ Grace Dane Mazur
A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
~ Grace Hansen
Cheers to the that, I love college
~ Grace Heefner
Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing; Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.
~ Grace Noll Crowell
It me birthday and nobody came...Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.
~ Graham Roumieu
May your stuffing be tasty May your turkey plump, May your potatoes and gravy Have nary a lump. May your yams be delicious And your pies take the prize, And may your Thanksgiving dinner Stay off your thighs!
~ Grandpa Jones
The feast lasted nine days, the last three becoming a continuous circle dance accompanied by songs and music. Noemi always stayed on the belvedere among the banquet remains. ... No, she didn't dance, she didn't laugh, but it was enough for her to see people enjoying themselves, because she too hoped to take part in the festival of life.
~ Grazia Deledda
Whoo! Heidi! Little goat girl, you are kicking the jam. You've got my lederhosen in a situation.
~ Greg Proops
predictable Christmas standards
~ Greil Marcus
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
~ Groucho Marx
I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it.
~ Groucho Marx
Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!
~ Groucho Marx
Hail, hail Freedonia, land of the free!
~ Groucho Marx
He [Harpo] loved life and lived it joyously and deeply and that's about as good an epitaph as anyone can have.
~ Groucho Marx
This is a GALA day for you. Answer: Well, a GAL a day is enough for me!
~ Groucho Marx
That's the problem, isn't it? Our youth enamored society hides death from us, makes us believe that we will live forever," Jack asserted, rather forcefully. "We don't want to see death. We even hide old people so that we don't have to be reminded of our own mortality. In other cultures, old age is celebrated, embraced even. Death is a part of life.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
Instead of using therapy to try and reduce their fear and anger, people now celebrated these destructive emotions, labeling themselves as politically active rather than emotionally dysfunctional.
~ Gudjon Bergmann
My heart filled with love, flowing over with joy, my own little drum that I like to march by!
~ Gunda Fijnje-Nolan
It was a mission of celebration: never had two Mexican-Americans flown up in space on the same mission, and never did burritos shine so brightly.
~ Gustavo Arellano
El Muchacho Alegre" should be the Mexican national anthem because it has everything a Mexican needs for fun: boozing, whoring, gambling, singing, gunplay, anal
~ Gustavo Arellano
Why is it that when you invite Mexicans to a party, they feel compelled to bring along thirty of their relatives? NOT ENOUGH FOOD FOR EVERYONE Dear Gabacho: Mexicans and parties—was there ever a coupling more spectacularly grotesque? We drink mucho, we eat mucho, we fight mucho, we love mucho, we mucho mucho.
~ Gustavo Arellano
The idea of paying Value Added Tax on a bride seemed to take the ring-a-ding out of it somehow.
~ Guy Bellamy
My third glass of a night is blue, Alessan said. The third glass I drink is always of blue wine. In memory of something lost. Lest on any single night I forget what it is I am alive to do.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
It is in the nature of things that when we judge actions to be memorably courageous, they are invariably those that have an impact that resonates: saving other lives at great risk, winning a battle, losing one's life in a valiant attempt to do one or the other. A death of that sort can lead to songs and memories at least as much—sometimes more—than a triumph. We celebrate our losses, knowing how they are woven into the gift of our being here. Sometimes
~ Guy Gavriel Kay