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Celebrations Quotes
Words for marking milestones and the moments worth celebrating.
These quotes look at celebrations from a cricketer's emotional post-century moment to a city that keeps reinventing its own festivities year after year. There's a shared thread of gratitude and anticipation running through each one, whether it's marking a Birthday or a bicentenary.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
- Consumption
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- Nov 07, 2020
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 briefly disrupted celebrations of a world globalised by capital and consumption.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason New Orleans is still around is because of the celebrations it has inspired since its inception as a city. I'm always excited about the possibility of what might happen. That's what drives us, and I think that's the spirit of New Orleans and the spirit of jazz.
- Birthday
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- Nov 07, 2020
And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, that aspect of life that most touches the everyday and celebrations is food.
- Early Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Taking part and helping West Indies win the World T20 in 2012 - I'll never forget the feeling. The celebrations afterwards were crazy, a massive all-nighter.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm short on celebrations and long on getting to work.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Valentine's Day is one of those tricky celebrations where you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you love it, you're buying into a holiday created to sell greeting cards, bad bouquets, and shoddy love-themed stuffed animals. And if you're opposed to it, you're considered lonely and single and have clearly never had a valentine.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People make a big deal about celebrations and what's appropriate and what's not. But just talking with some veteran guys, I think anytime you get a chance to celebrate with your team, regardless if it's winning the division or winning a series, whatever it is, you take advantage of that.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020