Celebration Quotes - Page 13

• I think it's time to have a celebration of life and renew our vows. And this time we're going to write the vows because they're going to mean a lot more. We certainly put the 'in sickness and in health' vow to the test the last year and half.

  Bill Rancic

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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

  Ana Gasteyer

  Characteristics, Parody, Mockery

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

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• 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

  Mother, Lasts, Life Is

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

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• If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography of a house is also a celebration of the creative minds who envisioned it and provides all the reasons, if any are needed, why Fallingwater should be cherished as a national monument. Franklin Toker has performed an invaluable service.

  Meryle Secrest

  Creative, House, Mind

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• I want my recipes to be clever examples of a bigger story, a celebration of resource responsibility and spending with purpose.

  Melissa d'Arabian

  Clever, Responsibility, Want

  Melissa d'Arabian, Raquel Pelzel (2012). “Ten Dollar Dinners: 140 Recipes & Tips to Elevate Simple, Fresh Meals Any Night of the Week”, p.12, Clarkson Potter

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• I hate the idea that cooking should be a celebration or a party.

  Christopher Kimball

  Hate, Party, Ideas

  "Cooking Isn’t Creative, and It Isn’t Easy". Interview with Alex Halberstadt, www.nytimes.com. October 11, 2012.

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• The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

  Jenny Holzer

  Yield, Lovely, Awful

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you need? Suddenly you see a flower and the flower sends its perfume to you. What else could you need? What more could you want? The whole sky goes on filling with stars, the whole life becomes a celebration because now everything is beautiful. Without expectation everything fulfills - just to breathe is enough, just to breathe is such a bliss.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Stars, Children

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• Sixty years is cause enough to sing
  In celebration of a gentle life!
  To the mother and the wife,
  Taking pleasure in what love might bring,
  Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

  Nick Gordon

  Birthday, Mother, Years

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• As long as I could remember, since I was 5 years old, I watched the Stanley Cup. I stayed up, made a point of watching it presented, watched the celebration in the locker room, and always dreamed that maybe I'd get there.

  Steve Yzerman

  Years, Long, Lockers

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• In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mistake, Artist, Thinking

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

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• New Orleans had a great tradition of celebration. Opera, military marching bands, folk music, the blues, different types of church music, ragtime, echoes of traditional African drumming, and all of the dance styles that went with this music could be heard and seen throughout the city. When all of these kinds of music blended into one, jazz was born.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Military, Echoes, New Orleans

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• Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

  Ben Marcus

  Grief, Sound, Looks

  Ben Marcus (2012). “The Flame Alphabet”, p.225, Granta Books

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

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Lively, Dies

  B.K.S. Iyengar, John J. Evans, Douglas Abrams (2006). “Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom”, p.266, Rodale

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• I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

  Frank O'Connor

  Hero, Writing, Ideas

  Frank O'Connor, Michael A. Steinman (1994). “A Frank O'Connor Reader”, p.13, Syracuse University Press

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• If you want to change the world, then be your own focus for a celebration of life. Really, fundamentally, at the very core of your being, be thankful you are alive, that you've got this opportunity, with these molecules, at this moment. Be thankful! Be a celebrant! Be thankful that you are alive and then look around to see who else is at the party!

  Patch Adams

  Party, Opportunity, Focus

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• Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

  Jenny Colgan

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• "And now you have joy?" "I do indeed." "And how did you get it?" "I chose it, admitted it into my life, then I celebrated its arrival in my heart. I made my celebration so loud and boisterous, I prohibited all gloom from attending the celebration".

  Calvin Miller

  Life, Heart, Joy

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• Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Powerful, Practice, Evil

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• Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of work itself, days on which we celebrate work by declaring our freedom. In a manner of speaking we announce that on this one day we may rest from our work, and without pressure or guilt, we may be glad. A holiday is a holy day-meant for rejoicing in God.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Christmas, Holiday, Holy Days

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• As each one of us awakens, it is like a light going on, followed by another light, another light, and another light. The darkness of human unconsciousness is slowly, gradually and gently lit, until there comes a day when there is more light than dark, more consciousness than unconsciousness , more joy than pain, ...more truth than illusion. That would indeed be a day for celebration.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Pain, Dark, Light

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• Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day. Rooted deeply in our Judeo-Christian heritage, the practice of offering thanksgiving underscores our unshakable belief in God as the foundation of our Nation and our firm reliance upon Him from Whom all blessings flow.

  Ronald Reagan

  Christian, Character, Blessing

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• 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

  Beautiful, Growth, Photograph

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• The parish is the presence of the Church in any given territory, an environment for hearing God's word, for growth in Christian life, for dialogue, proclamation, charitable outreach, worship and celebration.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Growth, Church

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• Today is a day for sober and mature reflection, not glee. Mindless celebration is both spiritually inappropriate and politically naive.

  Marianne Williamson

  Reflection, Today, Glee

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