Quotes about Celebration
The language describes the royal entourage who will ascend to welcome the King of Glory in the air (air does not mean heaven), in order to usher him back to earth in royal celebration. In other words, the language signals a common image: when the watchmen of a walled city heard the trumpet sound, signaling the proximity of their royal king, they would send out an entourage and create a royal procession as the victorious king returned.
- Scot McKnight
Your lifetime in form is to be honored and celebrated. Go beyond your enslavement, and live fully in the now, as this is the only time you have.
- Wayne Dyer
In Shakespeare's plays, the mourner hastening to bury his friend is all the time colliding with the reveller hastening to his wine.
- Samuel Johnson
People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.
- Muhammad Ali
I'm so happy I could scalp somebody. (Said after he got married)
- Mark Twain
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
the same disposition that impelled the Greeks and Romans to embellish their precious sarcophagi precisely as we still see them, with festivals, dancing, weddings,4 hunts, animal combat, bacchanals, thus with depictions of the most powerful press of life,i which they bring before us not only in such entertainments, but in group debauchery extending even to the point of copulation between satyrs and goats.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
I forgot what we were celebrating. Because we were always celebrating something, a new job, a new poem, a new love, a new dream.
- Audre Lorde
The charming aspect of Christmas is the fact that it expresses good will in a cheerful, happy, benevolent, non-sacrificial way. One says: "Merry Christmas"—not "Weep and Repent." And the good will is expressed in a material, earthly form—by giving presents to one's friends, or by sending them cards in token of remembrance.
- Ayn Rand
Rejoice and love yourself today 'Cause baby, you were born this way.
- Lady Gaga
The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.
- John of the Cross
Where there is no wine there is no love.
- Euripides