Celebration Quotes - Page 12

• It`s not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let`s put it on display and have some fun.

  David Stern

  Basketball, Stars, Fun

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• The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Mind, Noble

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1858). “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels”, p.57

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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• There's something about smoking a cigar that feels like a celebration. It's like a fine wine. There's a quality, a workmanship, a passion that goes into the smoking of a fine cigar.

  Demi Moore

  Passion, Wine, Smoking

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• Make the whole life a game. There is no purpose there is no aim, nothing. Just take it lightly, easily. Play the game. that is worship, which is celebration.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Play, Games, Purpose

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• we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we are most hurt, most happy, most downcast, most jubilant. Poetry is the language we speak in times of greatest need. And the fact that it is an endangered species in our culture tells us that we are in deep trouble.

  Erica Jong

  Hurt, Loss, Gains

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• 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

  Sometimes, Loses, Values

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

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• Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God’s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Children, Humility, Light

  "Pope calls for worshipers to remember 'essence' of Christmas", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2012.

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

  LeCrae

  Jesus, Crosses, Condemnation

  Song: Boasting, Album: Rehab, 2010

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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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• 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

  Love Life, Creativity, Can Do

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• Then what difference does human striving make: mortal struggle, valor, pain? If you live, then live for the test of spirit, for the celebration of the heart. Live to fight on other days. Lose your beloveds one by one. And remember. Exalt the kiss of friend and horse and wind and sun, which venality cannot cheapen nor stupidity belittle.

  Janet Morris

  Horse, Pain, War

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• Meditation doesn't lead you to silence; meditation only creates the situation in which the silence happens. And this should be the criterion - that whenever silence happens laughter will come into your life. A vital celebration will happen all around. You will not become sad, you will not become depressed, you will not escape from the world. You will be here in this world, but taking the whole thing as a game, enjoying the whole thing as a beautiful game, a big drama, no longer serious about it. Seriousness is a disease.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Laughter, Drama

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• When I stopped looking at food as a reward or a celebration and began looking at food as energy to fuel my athletic ambitions, that really kind of changed the whole world for me. That was the real 'aha!' moment.

  Joe Bastianich

  Real, Ambition, Athletic

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• At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual.

  Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

  Individuality, Becoming, Jazz

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• I hope it's water under the bridge, but Richard Carpenter is a complicated individual, and he's also entitled to his own opinion on how his sister is depicted. The film has lived on and survived, and to me is ultimately is an affectionate celebration of Karen Carpenter. I hope that wins out in the end.

  Todd Haynes

  Winning, Bridges, Water

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Gratitude is not only a response to God in good times - it's ultimately the very will of God in hard times. Gratitude isn't only a celebration when good things happen. It's a declaration that God is good no matter what happens.

  Ann Voskamp

  Gratitude, Hard Times, Matter

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• Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.

  Rajneesh

  Despair, Age, Misery

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

  Rajneesh

  Understanding, Life Is, Knows

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• Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

  Rajneesh

  Bliss

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• Music should always be just a celebration.

  K-Maro

  Should

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

  Rachel Holmes

  Eight, Goal, May

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Some years later I met Queen Elizabeth II, in our capital Ottawa at a Canada Day celebration. David Foster and I were doing the show and we both met her afterwards. She told me how much she loved the Canadian Railroad Trilogy. She looked at me and said, "oh, that song", and then said again, "that song", and that was all she said.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Song, Queens, Years

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

  Matthew Specktor

  Sometimes, Prelude, Ridicule

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Both Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are inexhaustible. They are celebrations of the ordinary, compelling reactions to philosophical elitism about "the good life". I hope to examine both of them further, doing more justice to Joycean comedy than I did in my "invitation" to the Wake, and trying to understand how the extraordinary stylistic innovations, particularly the proliferation of narrative forms, enable Joyce to "see life foully" from a vast number of sides.

  Philip Kitcher

  Good Life, Philosophical, Numbers

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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