Quotes About Festivities

#1. Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. I've just been around too much death today not to wonder why we find it appropriate to organize our festivities in and around the tombs of all these ancient cultures.

Linda Fairstein

#4. Plant
it
It will sprout
But forget about the rustic festivities
For the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal through
the compact generations

Jean Cocteau

#5. The religious superstition is encouraged by means of the institution of churches, processions, monuments, festivities ... The so-called clergy stupefy the masses ... They befog the people and keep them in an eternal condition of stupefaction.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend.

Sharon Begley

#7. 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

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

#9. 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.

Greg Walden

#10. The festivities were broken up by Pandora, who lobbed a scoop of ice cream at Lex that landed on the table with a sticky sploosh.
"Don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!" she screeched, jigging back into the kitchen.

Gina Damico

#11. If you ask an Auin Bushman what realty happens at the puberty ceremonials, he will tell you, "We dance." In the initiation customs of all peoples the dances play an especially important part. The dance is the center of wedding festivities.

Curt Sachs

#12. My father Bill had a problem with Christmas. Although he appears in old photographs to possess a whippy, muscular frame, he was actually a frail man and usually managed to cause some kind of drama just before the festivities began.

Christopher Fowler

#13. How can we continue to have festivities after so many have died? (Rowena)
The same way we managed to laugh while we were in prison. You have to, otherwise you will go mad from the grief. Sometimes it helps to shout. Let the angels hear your rage. (Stryder)

Kinley MacGregor

#14. In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.

Vincent Tan

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

Franz Grillparzer

#16. I think that sometimes our souls must tell us they are having a hard time trying to keep up with all of our worldly festivities and plans. Quiet moments, such as when we weave, or in times of sleep, are when we hear what our inner selves have to say.

Meghan Nuttall Sayres

#17. You missed the morning's festivities," Bo said to Adamat. "You call torturing a man 'festivities'?" Adamat asked. "I'm not a good person," Bo said.

Brian McClellan

#18. According to Ted Watt's 'The First Labor Day Parade,' the September date was chosen because it coincided with a Knights of Labor conference in New York, thus guaranteeing a sizable turnout for the festivities.

Brendan I. Koerner

#19. I've had some Democrat African-American leaders tell me they're really not all that comfortable with Obama as the lead at the MLK festivities 'cause he's not down for the struggle. He does not have that in his roots.

Rush Limbaugh

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

William Arthur Ward

#21. In 1990, my wife and I were married in her village in southwestern Uganda. The festivities went on for three days, and all the while a couple of dozen gray-crowned cranes, with regal bonnets of sun-shot yellow feathers, were pecking and padding around in the adjacent savanna.

Alex Shoumatoff

#22. The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

Marcus Samuelsson

#23. 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

#24. Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've got literature?

Nick Hornby

#25. tonight's festivities, they'd taken over Faraday's Tennis Club, a place where you didn't usually get

A.J. Carella

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

Mariah Carey

#27. Inside, the festivities would continue, probably well into the night, with flirtation and merriment and gratuitous use of mistletoe. It was an inexpressibly wearying thought.

Lauren Willig

#28. 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

#29. The winter light, tinted by the bright colors in the street, plays on the go-board. All these festivities cut me off from the rest of the world. My loneliness is like a bolt of crimson silk stowed in the bottom of a wooden chest.

Shan Sa

#30. What is a literary festival? Imagine a sort of cross between school and church. There are no actual festivities; what there are is a lot of public readings.

Russell Smith

#31. You know how on Christmas day, the day feels different, even if you're just sitting in your chair waiting for your girlfriend to put her face on and you haven't even started any of the festivities yet, the day still feels different. The electrons are fatter and pushier.

Bill Callahan

#32. You'd be wise to eat lightly, or not at all, of any food you do not prepare yourself." "At all the feasts and festivities that will be there?" "No. Only at the ones you wish to survive.

Robin Hobb

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

Dianna Agron

#34. 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

#35. To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

Raoul Vaneigem

#36. Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.

Walter Scott

#37. The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

Will Advise