Celebration Quotes - Page 10

• In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.

  Paula Deen

  Dream, New Year, Years

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

  Dennis Prager

  Mean, Acceptance, Tolerance

  FaceBook post by Dennis Prager from Aug 27, 2013

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• The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries of dissertations and final oral examinations are quickly forgotten in the wonderful moment of the sherry afterward, admission into a very old club, parties of celebration, doctoral gowns, academic rituals, and hearing for the first time "Dr.," rather than "Miss" Jamison.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Party, Missing, Examination

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• George Orwells 1984 frequently tops surveys of our greatest books: its not a celebration of poetic language. Its decidedly anti-literary, a masterpiece of personal and political narrative sequence. And its subject matter is crucial, because what 1984 shows is that language can be a dirty trick.

  Graham Joyce

  Dirty, Book, Political

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• Playing live is a lost art, and you don't see a lot of bands that go out and play the way the older bands do. It's a celebration, and a lot of people treat it like a commercial or a distraction.

  Corey Taylor

  Art, Play, People

  "Government and Go-Go : Conversations with Stone Sour and Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, and Chuck Brown". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Now, knowing better, we can act better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

  Will Tuttle

  Children, Animal, Knowing Better

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

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• As we heal, the Earth Mother feels our joy. We are like cells in and on her body. The power of love, the power of healing, the power of compassion, the power of unity, and the power of knowing are our abilities. These are the gifts our Earth Mother seeks to share with us at this time. Through reconnecting to the celebration of life we are able to let go of our grief and fear. When we Walk in Beauty, we acknowledge every aspect of the Self. The Power Places of our planet are those that have seen the joy of our Earth Mother when her children have grown toward wholeness, celebrating life.

  Jamie Sams

  Letting Go, Mother, Children

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• 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

  People, Meat, Plant

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• Wine lovers know that putting some effort into understanding and appreciating wine pays big dividends. Skillful tasting unlocks wine's treasures. It adds an extra dimension to the basic routines of eating and drinking, turning a daily necessity into a celebration of life.

  Marvin Shanken

  Drinking, Wine, Appreciate

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• The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.

  Tom Robbins

  Valentine, Lucky, Causes

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

  Rashad Evans

  Trying, Life Is, Enjoy

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• I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?

  Steven Weinberg

  Tired, Europe, America

  "The Atheism Tapes". Documentary, 2004.

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• I don't necessarily want kids. A lot of our friends are having children and I don't know if it's for me. I haven't come down hardcore on either side of the argument. I think when people come from a stable family having children becomes a celebration and I'm not sure it would be that way for me.

  Jon Hamm

  Children, Kids, Thinking

  "'People really needed convincing that they wanted me'". Interview with Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2008.

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• In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

  Vincent Tan

  Blue, Mourning, Joy

  "Cardiff City dare to dream after play-off heartache of recent seasons" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• Don't forget that in the midst of all your pain and heartache, you are surrounded by beauty, the wonder of creation, art, your music and culture, the sounds of laughter and love, of whispered hopes and celebrations, of new life and transformation, of reconciliation and forgiveness.

  William P. Young

  Art, Laughter, Pain

  "The Shack". Book by William P. Young, May 2007.

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• Our way out involves both resistance and renewal: saying no to what is, so that we can reshape and recreate the world. Our challenge is communal, but to face it we must be empowered as individuals and create structures of support and celebration that can teach us freedom. Creation is the ultimate resistance, the ultimate refusal to accept things as they are. For it is in creation that we encounter Mystery.

  Starhawk

  Support, Challenges, Way

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• Conventional compliments often take the form of judgments however positive, and are sometimes offered to manipulate the behavior of others. NVC encourages the expression of appreciation solely for celebration.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Appreciation, Communication, Expression

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• What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Mother, Differences, Empowerment

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• The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

  George Will

  Media, Political, Culture

  George Will (2008). “One Man's America: The Pleasures and Provocations of Our Singular Nation”, p.175, Crown Forum

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• Again, men tell us that our preaching should be positive and not negative, that we can preach the truth without attacking error. But if we follow that advice we shall have to close our Bible and desert its teachings. The New Testament is a polemic book almost from beginning to end ... It is when men have felt compelled to take a stand against error that they have risen to the really great heights in the celebration of the truth

  John Gresham Machen

  Book, Teaching, Men

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• Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

  John Cage

  Music, Practice, Singing

  John Cage (2010). “Silence: Lectures and Writings”, p.28, Wesleyan University Press

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• Being with the right person is caring for another physically, mentally and spiritually. It is caring for anothers soul. As the relationship grows deeper over the years each kiss is still as new and exciting as the first, each embrace is a song of ever-deepening love, and each night becomes a celebration of unity and fulfilment.

  Robert Scheid

  Love, Song, Kissing

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• When the time comes, the journey toward the brilliant white light that marks the barrier between this world and the next will not hold as much fear as it once would have. For in my study of death, I have found the celebration of life.

  Dolores Cannon

  Journey, White, Light

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

  Bill Rodgers

  Running, People, Intense

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