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Quotes About Celebration

lunch parties that the missus had for her girlfriends. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice. They were forever saying each other's names. Mamie and Gertie and Peg and Eunice, all the size of her, boasting about the presents their husbands gave them for their birthdays
~ Edna O'Brien
To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.
~ Edward Albee
dreamy instrumental of an old song called Dancing On The Ceiling. The party was breaking up now
~ Edward D. Hoch
The glee spread throughout the baby's body. He began clapping his hands, not as any sort of applause but because there was so much happiness in his body that this was the only way he could release some of it.
~ Edward P. Jones
Great wine works wonders and is itself one
~ Edward Steinberg
You can probably identify your friends' gifts rather quickly
~ Edward T. Welch
There is a Haitian saying that might upset the aesthetic sensibilities of some women. 'Nou led, nou la,' it says. 'We are ugly, but we are here.' Like the modesty that is common in rural Haitian culture, this saying makes a deeper claim for poor Haitian women than maintaining beauty, be it skin-deep or otherwise. For women like my grandmother, what is worth celebrating is the fact that we are here, that against all odds, we exist.
~ Edwidge Danticat
When that day of jubilee finally arrives, all of us will be there with you, walking, heads held high, crowns a-glitter, because we do have a right to be here.
~ Edwidge Danticat
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~ Edwin Morgan
I've been to many funerals of funny people, and they're some of the funniest days you'll ever have, because the emotions run high.
~ Albert Brooks
Humans had celebrated her recovery with presents, and he, watching, had imitated them. He had gone far and had toiled hard to bring her an offering that his canine mind deemed all-desirable.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.
~ Albert Schweitzer
No campo, em todos os lados, os camponeses abandonavam os seus afazeres e as mulheres cumprimentavam com a mão. Era uma marcha triunfal. Enquanto o automóvel continuava a avançar, Hitler virou-se para me fitar e disse-me: "Até agora só um alemão foi celebrado desta forma, Lutero! Quando percorria o país, as pessoas apareciam em massa para o verem e para lhe darem as boas-vindas. Tal como a mim hoje!
~ Albert Speer
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Podem rezar latim sobre o meu caixão, se quiserem. Se quiserem, podem dançar e cantar à roda dele. Não tenho preferências para quando já não puder ter preferências. O que for, quando for, é que será o que é.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Puede afirmarse, sin caer en el infundio, que esta ilustre manga de atorrantes jamás consiguió entender el sentido de los Carnavales. Manuel Mandeb pensaba que las gentes se ponían contentas en virtud de algún suceso que todos conocían, menos él. Sus amigos padecían un desconcierto de la misma clase.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Cuando se festejaba mi cumpleaños en medio de las mismas caras, en los mismos lugares, con la misma canción repetida en coro, me asaltaba invariablemente la idea de que esto sólo difería del cumpleaños anterior en la aparición de una vela más sobre un pastel cuyo sabor era idéntico al de la vez pasada.
~ Alejo Carpentier
You are not the fat girl. You are voluptuous!...You are an angle descended from the heavens, a goddess of plenty walking among the denizens of hell where stick figures reign supreme.
~ Alesia Holliday
There are many things wrong with you. A hangover just isn't one of them.
~ Alethea Kontis
In front of the reviewing stand, she presented Joseph with a twenty-six-star, handcrafted silk American flag, sewn for the occasion by the ladies of Nauvoo. Then the officers, the honored guests, and the twenty members of the Legion marching band assembled for the procession to the temple site. Joseph had assigned special places on the reviewing stand to the Sauk Indian chief Keokuk and his entourage, who had crossed over from Iowa to partake in the festivities.
~ Alex Beam
Doesn't a singalong make the world seem a better place? It certainly makes football more fun to watch.
~ Alex Bellos
Mr. Anderson:Well, maybe we all should call it a night. Congrats to the happy couples. Will there be wedding bells soon? SnowGirl:Definitely. I mean, if you help a guy kill a dwarf, he should marry you.
~ Alex Flinn
She usually survived the Christmas season by ignoring it as best as possible but there were certain elements that reminded her of a pleasant time in her childhood, what she called the prefire days. Music of the season was one of those things that she took heart in. Maggie
~ Alex Kava
Christmases after his death were usually as unpredictable as they were untenable. It depended on how early in the day—or the evening before—her mother decided to start the festivities and who the guests would be—Jim Beam, José Cuervo or Jack Daniel. If the year had been especially successful, Johnnie Walker might replace all the others.
~ Alex Kava