Quotes About Celebration

he invented five milestones en route to the destination, each worthy of celebration.

CONNECTION: Defining moments are social: weddings, graduations, baptisms, vacations, work triumphs

Transitions should be marked, milestones commemorated, and pits filled. That's the essence of thinking in moments.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

You live long enough, every day is the anniversary of some thing.

I tend to celebrate crossing over with a meditative ceremony where I print the book out and neatly stack its pages on the floor. When everything has been properly laid out, I take a few steps back from the work, close my eyes, and offer up my thanks to the writing powers for another bountiful harvest. At which point, I get a running start and dive headlong into my word-pile, rolling around and snorting like a pig. And then I fall asleep for three days. How you celebrate is up to you. But

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

Everybody wants to be the man at the top. Not me. I'm happy in the middle. That's where the crowd is. And where there's a crowd, there's usually a party.

Tonight, we light the symbolic flashlight of under-the-covers reading to celebrate those page-turners we can never put down, even on a school night. I am assured that our Olympic torch will never reach a temperature of Fahrenheit four fifty-one, something the Lorax, the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe were all quite happy to hear.

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us on this grand and auspicious day.

We were supposed to write why we're excited about the grand opening and, well, balloons are always my favorite part.

WELCOME TO THE BOARD GAME HALL OF FAME

Yes!" shouted Charles. "I did it!" "Dude?" said Ryan. "We did it.

I can't stop being in parades. I just love dancing on floats that move really slowly on the city streets in the early morning.

Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.

Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

We need to take time to connect with the poor, resist our unceasing cravings, and pray. But we also need to gather with friends and family, share in God's good provision, eat delicious food, tell stories that encourage us all, and celebrate the risen Lord.

I pray, I dream that we become a people who are known not because we have a huge steeple or beautiful stained glass or interesting buildings but because we are so hospitable, so celebratory, that we are constantly inviting others in and sharing Jesus.

Anthropologist Richard Grossinger, Ph.D., puts it this way: "Guess what? God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him [or her], to mourn and celebrate enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging judge in robes.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

Unwrapping the leftover currant bread at the Grotes' that evening, I tell them about my party. Mr. Grote snorts. "How ridiculous, celebrating a birth date. I don't even know the day I was born, and I sure can't remember any of theirs," he says, swinging his hand toward his kids. "But let's have that cake.

The birthday of my lifeIs come, my love is come to me.

I'm an ambassador for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and one of the children, his wish was to go to the Emmys, so he's going to be my date, along with my husband, and my dad and his girlfriend. So we're going to have a really fun night and it's going to be really exciting. I'm really excited for him to experience that.

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.