Celebration Quotations

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

The celebration... you cannot practice it or anything. It's a moment when the excitement of your goal make you react to the moment.

I define poetry as celebration and confrontation. When we witness something, are we responsible for what we witness? That's an on-going existential question. Perhaps we are and perhaps there's a kind of daring, a kind of necessary energetic questioning. Because often I say it's not what we know, it's what we can risk discovering.

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.

When you're watching Psycho, there' s that moment when you have a visceral reaction to watching someone being stabbed. And then you have the intellectual revelation that you're not, and that's where the celebration comes in.

I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

In my household there is an insane amount of laughter and celebration.

Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.

Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.

The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

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.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

I love the idea that horror and fear is a celebration of health and life.

I'm an enormous admirer of Christopher Lee. He's somebody, along with Vincent Price, who I celebrate, and I wanted my movies to show that celebration and that honoring of these great film stars that were unafraid to go into horror and Grand Guignol and the macabre.

There's always been a celebration of what is that moment, whoever I am at that moment in my life. [It] is a very real way of looking at beauty.

Singing is like a celebration of oxygen.

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

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we're losing rather than a celebration of what we have.

What is a garden if not a miniaturization and celebration, of the place we are in, the universe?

The march is a way to get in celebration mode.

Celebration is life's frosting: isn't frosting the very best part of the cake?

We have managed to make the celebration of diversity our mode of resistance.

I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.

Without true celebration discipline is obnoxious.

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the street, in stores, at celebrations, everywhere.

Christmas can be transformed into a celebration more attuned to honoring the One whose birthday we celebrate.

I would like my work to be thought of as a celebration of life and nature..

The creative process can sustain itself throughout the entire celebration of photography.

Homosexuals are brute beasts... part of a vile and satanic system that will be utterly annihilated, and there will be a celebration in heaven.

At the heart of the celebration, there are the poor. If [they] are excluded, it is not longer a celebration. [...] A celebration must always be a festival of the poor.

Calories don’t count if they’re connected to a celebration. Everyone knows this.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.

My adoption was treated as a celebration.

Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.

Truth brings bliss, truth brings celebration.

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

Being is primary and doing is secondary for them. Celebration comes first and work takes a back seat in their lives. Work is preparatory to celebration.

God is the ultimate experience of silence, of beauty, of bliss, a state of inner celebration.

It has nothing to do with your desires and their fulfillment, with your hopes and their fulfillment; it is already the case. But to see the celebration that is already happening at the deepest core of your being you will have to drop becoming, you will have to understand the futility of becoming.

All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.

My black-and-white work is more of a celebration and the color work became more of a critique of society.

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

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

Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.

I never really thought about getting married - it just kind of happened. It seemed natural, the right thing to do. It was kind of a celebration of the time.

when i reached the bottom, i finally understood what Guthrie meant when he shouted, "LIBERO!" It was a celebration of being alive

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.

Good food is a celebration of life.

Have you not watched it yourself? Whenever you are total in something there is celebration.

When becoming disappears, all the smoke of becoming disappears, there is the flame of being, and that very flame is celebration.

I teach you celebration. And laughter has certainly to be one of the major ingredients in this celebration.

A man of many seasons and many rainbows - there are so many dimensions of celebration.

Everybody knows what celebration is. I have never come across a person who does not know what celebration is. Just rejoicing in your being, just rejoicing in this moment, this tremendous universe. You had not asked for it, you have simply been given a universe which is infinite and eternal. You have not asked and you have been given a consciousness which is eternal, which can become festive. If you allow it, it can make you the sanest, the most graceful, the most loving...

That is my work, to transform your life from a sad affair into a celebration.

Celebration is my attitude, unconditional to what life brings.

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green

A short story is. . .frequently the celebration of character at bursting point.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit

Sharing is a much better way to communicate than proving.

It is a psychological fact that we cherish most what we have worked hardest to gain. The further we have come, the sweeter the celebration at the destination when we arrive.

Profit is the celebration of service.

Parties are intended to be celebrations, and celebrations should be only for those who have something to celebrate.

The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.

Name me a society that doesn't love barbeque. It doesn't exist. Mankind is barbeque celebration.

She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth – It’s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration.

Love doesn't limit itself to relationships: it is a celebration of life.

I try to see every day as a celebration.

Our time on this earth is sacred, and we should celebrate every moment.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.