Celebration famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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 -
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 -
I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery.
-- Ana Gasteyer -
Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.
-- Anamika Mishra -
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 -
The march is a way to get in celebration mode.
-- Anthony Charles Richards -
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?
-- Bethenny Frankel -
Runners are the ultimate celebration people. Running is just so intense, you're really experiencing life to the fullest.
-- Bill Rodgers -
I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.
-- Brad Paisley -
The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!
-- Brian Swimme -
What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?
-- Charles Jencks -
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 -
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 -
Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration.
-- David Deida -
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 -
Find a perspective that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.
-- Dewitt Jones -
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 -
The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.
-- Dewitt Jones -
We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.
-- Dewitt Jones -
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 -
In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.
-- Edie Falco -
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 -
Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.
-- Emma Thompson -
Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.
-- Erwin W. Lutzer -
There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
-- Francesca Annis -
Your primary calling is to worship ... to pursue celebration and rejoicing as a way of life.
-- Graham Cooke -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.
-- Janet Evanovich -
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 -
I truly feel that food is a celebration of life. It's the most important, most valuable gift that God gave humans.
-- Jeff Henderson -
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 -
The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.
-- Jerry Uelsmann -
Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.
-- Joe Baca -
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 -
All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.
-- John W. Gardner -
Creativity is a celebration of one's grandeur, one's sense of making anything possible.
-- Joseph C Zinker -
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 -
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 -
Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine.
-- Joseph Plaskett -
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
-- Joyce Carol Oates -
We must rewrite our story from one of fear to one of celebration.
-- Kameron Hurley -
Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.
-- Kasey Keller -
We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.
-- Kristin Hersh -
Without the cross, there's only condemnation. If Jesus wasn't executed, there's no celebration.
-- LeCrae -
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 -
My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.
-- Martin Parr -
In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.
-- Mary Anne Radmacher -
Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.
-- Michael Card -
In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in the fashion.
-- Michelle Dockery -
Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
-- Nadine Gordimer -
All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
-- Natalia Kills -
I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
-- Norman Rockwell -
The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
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 -
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 -
Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.
-- Paulo Coelho -
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 -
I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.
-- Penn Jillette -
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 -
Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.
-- Peter Farb -
I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.
-- Peter Mayhew -
Life is a celebration… I try to enjoy it as much as possible.
-- Rashad Evans -
Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
-- Richie Havens -
I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit
-- Robert Battle -
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green
-- Robert Herrick -
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 -
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 -
Magic is not always serious or solemn. It is a joyous celebration and merging with the life-force.
-- Scott Cunningham -
when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive
-- Sharon Creech -
Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration
-- Shri Radhe Maa -
Everything in this creation is a sign of celebration.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.
-- Stacy London -
There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.
-- Story Musgrave -
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 -
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 -
Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.
-- Ted Nugent -
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
-- Thomas Aquinas -
I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.
-- Vandana Shiva -
Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.
-- Walter Brueggemann -
The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
-- William A. Henry III -
Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.
-- Yo-Yo Ma -
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 -
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 -
I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.
-- Ian Astbury -
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 -
Sometimes it seems to me that the celebration of a person is really just a prelude to ridicule.
-- Matthew Specktor
