Festivities Quotes

• In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Garden, Play, Celebration

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• Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.

  William Arthur Ward

  Gratitude, Generosity, Family And Friends

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• A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Heart, Joy, Boisterous

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• Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Sculpture, Celebration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspirational, Memories, Sleep

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• Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

  Rajneesh

  Fun, Taken, People

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• I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

  Mariah Carey

  Queens, I Can

  "Mariah Carey Dishes On 40 Things You Need To Know About Her". Interview with Brian Galindo, www.buzzfeed.com. June 3, 2015.

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• Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

  Dianna Agron

  Halloween, Epic, Tunes

  FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Oct 29, 2012

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• The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life of its moments of celebration and festivity. It is because of them that there is so little festivity in the world, and every day it is becoming more and more dull and dreary and miserable.

  Rajneesh

  Done, World, Dull

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• The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

  Laurie Colwin

  Safety, Giving, Cooking

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• Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

  Romain Rolland

  Dream, People, Theatre

  "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.

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• Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Passion, Giving, Way

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.70, Penguin

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• There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  Laurie Colwin

  Baseball, Funny Inspirational, Party

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• My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

  John Adams

  Memorable, Race, Years

  "A Selection of Eulogies Pronounced in the Several States". Book by D.F. Robinson and Company, 1826.

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• A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Wise, Self, Incentives

  Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so much a part of the holiday festivities. Searching our hearts, we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance.

  Ronald Reagan

  Gratitude, Holiday, Heart

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• I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?

  Rajneesh

  Suicide, Laughter, War

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• Since this was a formal undead gathering, there would be food—all kinds—drinks, dancing, and festivities, while those in power pondered whether or not to slaughter half the people around them. In other words, like a high-school prom.

  Jeaniene Frost

  School, People, Dancing

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• The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

  Ronald Hutton

  Christmas, Religious, Fashion

  Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford

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• LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Support, Important

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.

  Flora Thompson

  Regret, Past, Views

  "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. August Chapter, 1986.

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• It's great to see the people of Metro Detroit coming out to volunteer and help build homes for those affected by the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. With all the Super Bowl excitement, it's nice for people to participate in an event that will make such a significant impact in people's lives while also being a part of the Super Bowl festivities.

  David Daniels

  Nice, Home, Impact

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• He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

  Diodorus Siculus

  Kings, Greek, Musical

  Histories 16.91.5-6,

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• To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

  Raoul Vaneigem

  Delight, Preparing, Insurrection

  Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution

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