Quotes About Celebration

Daisy loved all parades, especially this one, whose crush of observers, prone to impulsive kisses, made it one more piece of the mistletoe under which she lived her life

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

My birthday!--what a different sound That word had in my youthful ears; And how each time the day comes round, Less and less white its mark appears.

See, the conquering hero comes!Sound the trumpet, beat the drums!

See the conquering hero comes Sound the trumpets, beat the drums

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife, Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life, Is worth an age without name.

The women sang the Ohgiwe and danced together as the grandmothers had, for the brave, and the unselfish, for the protectors.

In Harvest-time, harvest folk servants and all, Should make all together good cheer in the hall, And fill the black bowl Of blyth to their song, And let them be merry, all harvest-time long. THOMAS TUSSER Elizabethan farmer-poet

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise.

The motion of our praise must be like the motion of our pulse, which beats as long as life lasts.

Bacchus, the Saviour, son of the virgin Semele, after being put to death, also arose from the dead. During the commemoration of the ceremonies of this event the dead body of a young man was exhibited with great lamentations, in the same manner as the cases cited above, and at dawn on the 25th of March his resurrection from the dead was celebrated with great rejoicings. [224:3] After having brought solace to the misfortunes of mankind, he, after his resurrection, ascended into heaven. [224:4]

A man looks pretty small at a wedding

Peter was a birthday party, all candles and cake and balloons. Now the party was over. Sudhir was the rest of the year, the real deal, the place where she'd built her nest. What she and Sudhir had constructed together, someone like Peter could only dream about. If he was even smart enough to realize and envy them what they had, that is. Which she somehow doubted he was.

Vesak Day, May 31, 2007

every day is an anniversary; every minute, a commemoration so there is no reason to ever be sober

Shane wasn't far removed from the man he'd been when he passed out on Gayle King's shoulder as Jesse Williams announced that he'd won the 2009 NAACP Award for Outstanding Fiction.

Life is an Invitation, Provocation, and a Celebration.

No wine in the world brings to mind so many immediate associations as champagne. The pop of a cork and the bright sparkle of bubbles mean celebration and glamour and, more often than not, the distinct possibility of romance. It is the wine of weddings and New Year's kisses. It is beautiful and delicate, and above all, it is a wine associated with women.

For some of us, Halloween is everyday.

Jesus is handing out God's party invitations. They read: "You're invited to my party in the new creation. Come as you are.

In Luke's Gospel Jesus is either going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal.

Gasparilla is Tampa's annual heritage festival, and Tampa's heritage appears to be about alcohol.

What's this whole Parrot Head phenomenon about, anyway?" asked Crease. "It's kind of like AA in reverse.