Quotes about Celebration

There would be no Christmas if there was no Easter.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake has a lot for a lot of people, it does for me…

We have become so used to complaining about the state of our country that we have forgotten what it is to celebrate India, to celebrate what India stands for.

A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is born."

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

I find the time between Christmas and New Year really difficult. You don't know whether you're supposed to be in pyjamas, eating mince pies or on some detox diet. You're all over the place.

I have had my fair share of nights out.

Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!

The very reason why that poetry excites one to such abandonment, such rapture, is that it celebrates some feeling that one used to have (at luncheon parties before the war perhaps), so that one responds easily, familiarly, without troubling to check the feeling, or to compare it with any that one has now.

Far away a bell tolls, but not for death. There are bells that ring for life. A leaf falls, from joy. Oh, I am in love with life!