Celebration Quotes - Page 7

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

  Jeff Henderson

  Important, Valuable, Feels

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Naked, Red

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• Every dimension of life, its gains and its losses, are reason for celebration because each of them brings us closer to wisdom and fullness of understanding.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Wisdom, Loss, Understanding

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

  Kameron Hurley

  Stories

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• Laughter, song, and dance create emotional and spiritual connection; they remind us of the one thing that truly matters when we are searching for comfort, celebration, inspiration, or healing: We are not alone.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Spiritual, Song

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• We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have never witnessed or acknowledged. Now knowing better, we can act better, and acting better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children, and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

  Will Tuttle

  Children, Apology, Animal

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.411, Lantern Books

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• Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.

  Alvin Ailey

  Music, Dance, Teaching

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• I would like people to see my work as a rehabilitation of scorned values and, in any case, make no mistake about it, a work of ardent celebration.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Mistake, People, Rehabilitation

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• I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Islands, People, Imagination

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

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

  Norman Mailer

  Death, Littles, Ecstasy

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

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• Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.

  Bernard Malamud

  Life, Loss, Joy

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• I wrote these two songs ["Coming Out of the Dark" and "Always Tomorrow"] as a celebration of hope. And I want to send it out to all of those people who are suffering through this terrible disaster [Hurricane Katrina], and please know that you are not alone - and you will not be.

  Gloria Estefan

  Song, Dark, Two

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 10, 2005.

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Political, Letters

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• My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.

  Ryan McGinley

  Beautiful, Fun, Real

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• If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America.

  Eric Liu

  Skin Tone, America, Color

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• In a way, the Nobel Prize has been something of a pain in the neck, though there was at least one time that I got some fun out of it, Shortly after I won the Prize, Gweneth and I received an invitation from the Brazilian government to be the guests of honor at the Carnaval celebrations in Rio.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Fun, Pain, Government

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• The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• I'm giving up acting. . . . I'm 66 and there are a number of celebrations I've got to get down on paper, and acting doesn't allow me to do that. It was a hell of a drug, performance. It's a great thrill, especially for a storyteller. But it can go. Directing can go. Writing can't go. And in terms of what lies ahead, I want to have a burning focus - almost like smoke coming up from the paper as I write.

  Athol Fugard

  Giving Up, Lying, Writing

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• Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as the earth's bright-colored nerve endings, the sun's descent urging them into activity, filling them individually with life nectar, the life nectar then being passed into the world, out of each beak, in the form of that bird's distinctive song, which was, in turn, an accident of beak shape, throat shape, breast configuration, brain chemistry: some birds blessed in voice, others cursed; some squeaking, others rapturous.

  George Saunders

  Song, Blessed, Fall

  George Saunders (2013). “Tenth of December: Stories”, p.57, Random House

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• 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

  Empowering, Desire, Pentecost

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• The attitude I take is that everyday life is more interesting than forms of celebration, when we become aware of it. That when is when our intentions go down to zero. Then suddenly you notice that the world is magical.

  John Cage

  Zero, Attitude, Interesting

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• Sabbath is the celebration of life beyond and outside productivity.

  Walter Brueggemann

  Celebration Of Life, Sabbath, Productivity

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

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• Nuclear abolition is the democratic wish of the world's people, and has been our goal almost since the dawn of the atomic age. Together, we have the power to decide whether the nuclear era ends in a bang or worldwide celebration.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, People, Goal

  "It's time to rid the world of nuclear weapons" by Desmond Tutu, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2010.

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• There should be celebration rallies when people die... We believe in dialectics, and so we can't not be in favor of death.

  Mao Zedong

  Believe, People, Favors

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• Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Prayer, Party

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