Quotes About Celebration

When I was five years old, my parents gave me a drum set for Christmas. My mom played the piano, and Dad played the saxophone badly. But that Christmas morning, I remember we all played together, and I thought it was the greatest day ever.

Coney Island is and always will be 'the people's playground.' It's a place where people of all backgrounds come to have a good time.

I like having parties where we bring in the girls, and we have a good DJ playing good music that makes the girls dance.

The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.

When people ask me what I think about when I'm playing, I picture myself as a 10-year-old girl, playing in the park, scoring a goal and then celebrating. That's when I'm playing best.

To come out and win a playoff game, that's just amazing.

Playoffs are fun.

The fact that food plays such an important part in my films has everything to do with my family.

1972 was a year of many pleasant and rewarding experiences for me:

I'm not here to tell anyone how to party. I'm just here to say, 'Please, party as hard as you can.'

I'm very pleased to be recognising International Women's Day, a day that celebrates the achievements of women across the world.

As for Glastonbury, it's the biggest festival there is in Britain, and I'm very pleased to be asked to do it.

Naturally, any time that our national team beats Australia is pleasing but the first time we beat them in 10 years at Stratford in 2005 was a day I'll never forget.

It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.

There are plenty of Latina actresses that no one's ever heard of... Some are really brown, some are light-skinned, and some look like they're Caucasian, but it's like we only want to identify with a certain kind of look and celebrate that under the guise that this is a 'Latina actress.'

Euro 2012 was my first title, yet most of the other guys have already won plenty of silverware.

I want a state funeral with bells ringing across the land! Then I'd love the congregation to do the hokey cokey and for can-can girls to dance down the aisle. I've already bought the plot in Worcestershire next to my parents.

Any time you are in a position where your peers plus the people who paid your bills all your life are honoring you, it doesn't get a hell of a lot better than that.

When I have 7,000 people plus at Red Rock just for a show of mine, I think it's wonderful to get that many people to come see you.

There's no better place to be on the podium than here at Monza.

I would like to talk about poems like I talk about football.

The headmaster asked to read one of my poems at some celebration or other when I was about 10. When I look back, that is phenomenal encouragement.

I want young children to savor and enjoy Tagore like I did since I was a child. He was too great a poet of India to be kept limited to Bengal. Everybody should read and celebrate him.

Poets have always celebrated grief as one of the deepest human emotions.