Celebration Quotes:

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

- Adi Da

topic: Discipline, Celebration, Obnoxious

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

- Agnetha Faltskog

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Feelings, Lines, Celebration

Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.

- Alexei Panshin

topic: Three, Four, Celebration, Cranky

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.

- Ana Gasteyer

source: "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Redbook interview, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.

topic: Celebration, Characteristics, Parody

Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.

- Anamika Mishra

source: Twitter post from Dec 2, 2015

topic: Winter, Celebration

It's always good to remember where you come from and celebrate it. To remember where you come from is part of where you're going.

- Anthony Burgess

topic: Hymns, Where You Come, Celebration

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

- Anthony Charles Richards

topic: Way, March, Celebration

Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.

- B.K.S. Iyengar

topic: Celebration, Lively

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

- Bethenny Frankel

topic: Cake, Celebration

Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.

- Bill Rodgers

topic: Running, People, Celebration

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

- Bjork

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Oxygen, Singing, Celebration

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

- Brad Paisley

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Creativity, Celebration, Celebrate, Celebrate Life

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

- Brian Swimme

topic: Environmental, Celebration, Mystery

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

- Charles Jencks

topic: Garden, Celebration, Universe

Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.

- D. Todd Christofferson

topic: Faces, Causes, Celebration, Interrupting

The longest-lived people eat a plant-based diet. They eat meat but only as a condiment or a celebration. Nothing they eat has a plastic wrapper.

- Dan Buettner

topic: People, Meat, Celebration, Condiments, Plant Based Diet

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.

- David Deida

topic: Tests, Celebration, Life Is, Superior Man

Profit is the celebration of service.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Celebration, Profit

Make the subtle shift from pushing ourselves to be the best in the world, to allowing ourselves to be the best for the world.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: World, Pushing, Celebration, Pushing Ourselves, Allowing

Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: Perspective, Ordinary, Celebration

Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: Race, Rats, Celebration, Rat Race

There's always another right answer.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: Answers, Celebration, Right Answers

See the world with new eyes every day.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: Eye, World, Celebration, New Eyes

The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: World, Celebration

We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: Celebration

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Soul, Looks, Celebration

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

- Edie Falco

topic: Laughter, Insane, Celebration

A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!

- Elise Broach

source: Elise Broach (2005). “Shakespeare's Secret”, p.261, Macmillan

topic: Luck, Special, Celebration, Wonderful Day

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Laughter, Celebration, Failing

Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.

- Erwin W. Lutzer

topic: Christmas, Celebration, Celebrate

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

- Francesca Annis

topic: Celebration, Companionship, Enough

Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.

- Graham Cooke

source: FaceBook post by Graham Cooke from Jun 03, 2012

topic: Calling, Way, Celebration

The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

- Greg Walden

topic: Community, Chance, Celebration, Residents, Festivities

At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.

- Helen Mirren

topic: Jubilee, Celebration, Silver

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

- Inga Muscio

topic: Celebration, Oppression, Gender

To be totally engaged with all my functions and all my faculties and all my capacities in life to me that would be success.

- Jacob Needleman

topic: Would Be, Celebration, Capacity

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

- James Woods

topic: Mean, Celebration

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

- Jean Vanier

topic: Heart, Festivals, Celebration, Excluded

I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.

- Jeff Henderson

topic: Important, Celebration, Valuable, Celebration Of Life

Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.

- Jerry Falwell

topic: Heaven, Satanic, Celebration

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

- Jerry Uelsmann

topic: Photography, Creative, Celebration

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

- Joe Baca

topic: America, Mexican, Celebration, Mexican American, Cinco De Mayo

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

- John Charles Polanyi

topic: Actors, Delight, Celebration, Shared Moments

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

- John W. Gardner

topic: Celebration, Behavior, Celebrate

Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.

- Joseph C Zinker

topic: Creativity, Celebration, Grandeur, I Love Life, Celebration Of Life

Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

- Joseph C Zinker

topic: Love Life, Creativity, Celebration

Excellent anthology... a celebration of our goodness and our potential for growth. The sense of celebration is stretched by the beautiful photographs....

- Joseph C Zinker

topic: Beautiful, Growth, Celebration

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.

- Joseph Plaskett

topic: Art, Celebration, Divine, Celebration Of Life

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

- Joyce Carol Oates

topic: Boxing, Religion, Celebration, Masculinity, Boxing Champions

We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.

- Kameron Hurley

topic: Stories, Celebration

Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.

- Kasey Keller

topic: Sports, Celebration

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

- Kristin Hersh

topic: Perfect, Needs, Celebration, Day Of The Dead

Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.

- LeCrae

topic: Jesus, Celebration, Crosses

Bread is a celebration.

- Lynne Rossetto Kasper

topic: Food, Bread, Celebration

Pentecost is a celebration of God... a celebration of God's power... a celebration of God's desire to empower us and to dwell within us.

- Mark Hart

topic: Empowering, Desire, Celebration, Pentecost

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

- Martin Parr

topic: Black And White, Color, Celebration

In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

topic: Garden, Play, Celebration, Festivities

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

- Michael Card

topic: Promise, Saving, Celebration

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

- Michael Reagan

source: Michael Reagan, Joe Hyams (1988). “On the outside looking in”, Zebra Books

topic: Adoption, Celebration, Treated

In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.

- Michelle Dockery

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Fashion, War, Celebration

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

- Nadine Gordimer

source: "Writing and rootlessness". Interview with Michael March, www.theguardian.com. March 15, 2004.

topic: Art, Celebration, Defeat, Representing, Celebration Of Life

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

- Natalia Kills

source: "On the Rise: The Natalia Kills Experience". Interview with Jon Chattman, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

topic: Art, Pain, Celebration, All The Best

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

- Norman Rockwell

topic: Birthday, Fool, Celebration

The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Miracle, Celebration, Existence

The artist's work, it is sometimes said, is to celebrate. But really that is not so; it is to express wonder. And something terrible resides at the heart of wonder. Celebration is social, amenable. Wonder has a chaotic splendor.

- Patricia Hampl

source: Patricia Hampl (1993). “Spillville: A Collaboration”, Milkweed Editions

topic: Art, Splendor, Celebration, Amenable

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

- Paul David Tripp

source: FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Jun 09, 2013

topic: Celebration, Worship, Reminders, Corporate Worship

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Earth, Sacred, Celebration

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

- Penn Jillette

topic: Intellectual, Psycho, Celebration

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

- Penn Jillette

topic: Ideas, Celebration, Horror, Health And Life

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.

- Peter Bondra

topic: Practice, Goal, Celebration

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

- Peter Farb

source: Peter Farb (1968). “Man's rise to civilization as shown by the Indians of North America from primeval times to the coming of the industrial state”, Secker & Warburg

topic: Marriage, Celebration, Economic

I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

- Peter Mayhew

topic: Battle, Lasts, Celebration

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

- Rashad Evans

topic: Trying, Celebration, Life Is

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

- Richie Havens

topic: Peaceful, Celebration, Woodstock, Peaceful Protest

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit

- Robert Battle

source: "The POC Records: From Fear To Fearless". Interview with Vanessa Alamo, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2017.

topic: Believe, Spirit, Celebration

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green

- Robert Herrick

topic: Green, Springtime, Celebration, Spring Time, Foliage

I Will Follow is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.

- Salli Richardson

source: "Salli Richardson-Whitfield: the 'I will follow'". Interview with Kam Williams, www.eurweb.com. March 9, 2011.

topic: Celebration, Sometimes, Celebration Of Life

What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.

- Sathya Sai Baba

topic: Determination, Desire, Celebration

Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.

- Scott Cunningham

source: Scott Cunningham (1985). “Magical Herbalism: The Secret Craft of the Wise”, p.9, Llewellyn Worldwide

topic: Magic, Serious, Celebration, Wiccan, Merging

when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

- Sharon Creech

topic: Alive, Celebration, Bottom

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

- Shri Radhe Maa

topic: Festivals, Celebration, Turns, Live Every Day

Good food is a celebration of life.

- Sophia Loren

topic: Food, Celebration, Celebration Of Life

Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: Celebration, Creation

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

- Stacy London

source: "Stacy London Tells You Why Clothes Can Change The Way You Feel About Yourself". Interview with Holly Corbett, www.sfgate.com. March 12, 2013.

topic: Joy, Needs, Celebration

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

- Story Musgrave

source: "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

topic: Serious, Celebration, Feels

The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked that, and I've always tried to live up to it.

- Susan Tyrrell

source: "Susan Tyrrell obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.

topic: Mother, Lasts, Celebration

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

- Sydney Smith

source: Rolling Stone, New York, February 8, 1990.

topic: Acting, Facts, Celebration, Infinite Possibilities

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

- Ted Nugent

topic: Names, Celebration, Mankind

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

- Thomas Aquinas

topic: Jesus, Sacrifice, Celebration, Holy Mass

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

- Vandana Shiva

source: "Earth Democracy - an interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. December 31, 2002.

topic: Thinking, Joy, Celebration, Celebration Of Life

Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

- Walter Brueggemann

source: Walter Brueggemann (2011). “Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries: Deuteronomy”, p.69, Abingdon Press

topic: Celebration, Celebration Of Life, Sabbath

The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.

- William A. Henry III

source: "In Defense of Elitism". Book by William A. Henry III, 1994.

topic: Self, Culture, Celebration

Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

- Yo-Yo Ma

topic: Way, Celebration, Communicate, Better Ways

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

- Yusef Komunyakaa

topic: Risk, Celebration, Kind

Professionally, I'm proud that Glassjaw has gotten to this moment, and that Justin Beck and I are making another record and some zany things are going on. It's on the tip of my tongue all day every day, between the press and the experience of putting ourselves out there, and putting our personalities out there to be judged and to have amassed a whole unit of music, and how it's really a celebration of our friendship. I'm really proud of it.

- Daryl Palumbo

topic: Personality, Proud, Celebration

I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

- Ian Astbury

source: "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

topic: Winter, Spirit, Celebration, Solstice, Winter Solstice

Music should always be just a celebration.

- K-Maro

source: Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

topic: Celebration, Should

I always say the work is not a celebration as such, because that's sometimes just as weird and excluding and perverse.

- Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

topic: Celebration, Sometimes

Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.

- Matthew Specktor

topic: Celebration, Sometimes, Prelude

Celebration is best done in the company of others who can rejoice with us over God's goodness.

- Max Anders

topic: Done, Celebration, Goodness

The church is the bride of Christ. The kingdom will be the eternal celebration of the wedding of Christ and the church. We will enjoy rapturous celebration as the bride of Christ in the eternal kingdom.

- Paul P. Enns

topic: Church, Kingdoms, Celebration

The celebration of one success launches a thousand more.

- Adrian Gostick

source: Adrian Gostick, Chester Elton (2012). “The Carrot Principle: How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Engage Their Employees, Retain Talent, and Dirve Performance”, p.172, Simon and Schuster

topic: Celebration

Christmas is such a feel-good time of year, and despite what's going on, it's about love and it's about celebration and just the holidays in general. It's like, why can't we carry that through the rest of the year? Why does it have to be just now? Let's make the entire year a season of love.

- Nick Lachey

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Holiday, Good Times, Celebration

The blues is celebration, because when you take sorrow and turn it into music, you transform it.

- Odetta

topic: Sorrow, Celebration, Turns

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

- George Weigel

source: Source: eppc.org

topic: People, Church, Celebration, Holy Mass

Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.

- Ted Alexandro

source: "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

topic: Acceptance, Mourning, Celebration

Snowdrops: Theirs is a fragile but hardy celebration... in the very teeth of winter.

- Louise Wilder

source: Louise Beebe Wilder (1997). “What Happens in My Garden”, Hartley & Marks

topic: Winter, Teeth, Celebration, Snowdrops, Hardiness

Celebration happens when the mind unites with the spirit.

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: Mind, Spirit, Celebration

Spirituality is a harmonious blend of outer silence and inner celebration; and also inner silence and outer celebration!

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

source: "On Celebration" by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

topic: Silence, Spirituality, Celebration, Harmonious

There's always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. [It] is a very real way of looking at beauty.

- Charlize Theron

source: Source: wwd.com

topic: Real, Way, Celebration

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 12, 2011

topic: Love, Limits, Celebration, Celebrate Life, Celebration Of Life

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.

- Rainer Maria Rilke

source: Rainer Maria Rilke (1996). “Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

topic: Different, Celebration, Thread

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Firsts, Celebration, Seats

Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Celebration

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

- Rajneesh

topic: Life, Attitude, Celebration

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Flames, Becoming, Celebration

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: God, Silence, Celebration

Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in your being, just rejoicing in this moment, this tremendous universe. You had not asked for it, you have simply been given a universe which is infinite and eternal. You have not asked and you have been given a consciousness which is eternal, which can become festive. If you allow it, it can make you the sanest, the most graceful, the most loving.

- Rajneesh

topic: Doe, Celebration, Consciousness

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Men, Rainbow, Celebration

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

- John Cage

source: John Cage (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press

topic: Support, Celebration

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Celebration, Affair

I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Laughter, Ingredients, Celebration

Religion is nothing but a science to attain wisdom, understanding, to know what life is, and to live it in utter celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Understanding, Celebration, Life Is

Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

- Rajneesh

topic: Celebration, Bliss

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

topic: Art, Sculpture, Celebration, Festivities

Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.

- Rashad Evans

topic: Trying, Celebration, Life Is

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

- Tom Hanks

topic: Mirrors, Examination, Celebration

Disco was like the celebration of music through dance and my God! When you heard the music sometimes it was like, if you don't get up and dance, you aren't human!

- Grace Jones

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Celebration, Sometimes, Get Up, Disco

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Transformation, Celebration, Theme

When love and compassion fills your heart, you find newness in every moment, and life becomes a celebration.

- Mata Amritanandamayi

topic: Heart, Compassion, Celebration, Newness

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Commitment, Love Is, Celebration, Mature Love

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

- V. S. Pritchett

topic: Character, Stories, Celebration

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

- Denis Waitley

topic: Gains, Facts, Celebration

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

- Ayn Rand

source: Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.114, Hamilton Books

topic: Party, Celebration, Celebrate

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

- Vandana Shiva

topic: Diversity, Resistance, Celebration

I try to see every day as a celebration.

- Maya Angelou

source: Source: www.southernliving.com

topic: Trying, Celebration

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

- Diane Ackerman

source: Diane Ackerman (2004). “An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

topic: Prayer, Writing, Celebration

Every day we have a special reason to make a good celebration! And that reason is our very existence!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Special, Celebration, Reason

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

- Ben Elton

topic: World, Losing, Celebration

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature.

- Henry Moore

source: Henry Moore, John Hedgecoe, Suzanne Webber (1986). “Henry Moore”, Chronicle Books Llc

topic: Celebration, Celebration Of Life

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Holiday, Celebration, Individual, Human Family

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

- Ronald Reagan

source: United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

topic: Thanksgiving, Character, Celebration, Unshakable, Belief In God

The celebration of death is not a good thing. Fetishizing death isn't a good thing. You should be celebrating life and enjoying it and all that.

- Irvine Welsh

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Celebration, Celebrate Life, Good Things

As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.

- Killer Mike

source: Source: pitchfork.com

topic: Artist, World, Celebration

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

- Scarlett Johansson

source: "Scarlett Johansson's in Love! (but not with this guy)". Interview with Amy Larocca, www.glamour.com. September 28, 2009.

topic: Married, Celebration, Kind

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

- Nicolas Cage

source: "Nicolas Cage Exclusive Interview SEASON OF THE WITCH". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 3, 2011.

topic: Stars, Celebration, Horror, Macabre, Film Stars

In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

- Norman Mailer

source: Norman Mailer (2007). “Harlot's Ghost: A Novel”, p.107, Random House

topic: Death, Littles, Celebration

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.

- Janet Evanovich

source: Janet Evanovich (2010). “Hard Eight: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.57, Macmillan

topic: Celebration, Calories, Connected