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

  • 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.

    School   People   Dancing  
  • There is really a je ne sais quoi about turkey cooking - the air of festivity, the family squabbles, the constant basting - that does not apply to the turkey breast, which is, really, a convenience of food... A turkey without seasonal angst is like a baseball game without a national anthem, a winter without snow, a birthday party without candles.

  • 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.

    Coffee   Weekend   Impact  
  • 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.

    Religious   Mean   People  
  • In the garden of your days cultivate festivity, play and celebrations.

  • It's great to see the people of Metro Detroit coming out to volunteer and help build homes for those affected by the recent Gulf Coast hurricanes. With all the Super Bowl excitement, it's nice for people to participate in an event that will make such a significant impact in people's lives while also being a part of the Super Bowl festivities.

    Nice   Home   Impact  
  • Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.

    Fun   Taken   People  
  • A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

    Heart   Joy   Boisterous  
  • I'm the queen of festivities, that's all I can say.

    "Mariah Carey Dishes On 40 Things You Need To Know About Her". Interview with Brian Galindo, www.buzzfeed.com. June 3, 2015.
  • My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

    Memorable   Race   Years  
    "A Selection of Eulogies Pronounced in the Several States". Book by D.F. Robinson and Company, 1826.
  • Everything gives way before the recurring torment and festivity of passion.

    Passion   Giving   Way  
    Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.70, Penguin
  • I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

  • Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents — the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments.

    "Two worlds of childhood: U.S. and U.S.S.R".
  • Picture and sculpture are the celebrations and festivities of form.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Essays (Annotated Edition)”, p.185, Jazzybee Verlag
  • A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification.

    Wise   Self   Incentives  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”
  • I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .

    Sweet   College   Air  
  • The table is a meeting place, a gathering ground, the source of sustenance and nourishment, festivity, safety, and satisfaction. A person cooking is a person giving: even the simplest food is a gift.

    Safety   Giving   Cooking  
  • Large department stores, with their luxuriant abundance of canned goods, foods, and clothing, are like the primary landscape and the geometrical locus of affluence. Streets with overcrowded and glittering store windowsthe displays of delicacies, and all the scenes of alimentary and vestimentary festivity, stimulate a magical salivation. Accumulation is more than the sum of its products: the conspicuousness of surplus, the final and magical negation of scarcitymimic a new-found nature of prodigious fecundity.

  • The workaholics have done immense harm to the world. And the greatest harm they have done is that they have deprived life of its moments of celebration and festivity. It is because of them that there is so little festivity in the world, and every day it is becoming more and more dull and dreary and miserable.

    Done   World   Dull  
  • 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.

    Struggle   Roots   Leader  
  • He (King Philip) wanted as many Greeks as possible to take part in the festivities in honour of the gods, and so planned brilliant musical contests and lavish banquets for his friends and guests. Out of all Greece he summoned his personal guest-friends and ordered the members of his court to bring along as many as they could of their acquaintances from abroad.

    Kings   Greek   Musical  
    Histories 16.91.5-6,
  • To work for delight and authentic festivity is barely distinguishable from preparing for a general insurrection

    Raoul Vaneigem (1994). “The revolution of everyday life”, Left Bank Distribution
  • As we celebrate Thanksgiving, we should reflect on the full meaning of this day as we enjoy the fellowship that is so much a part of the holiday festivities. Searching our hearts, we should ask what we can do as individuals to demonstrate our gratitude to God for all He has done. Such reflection can only add to the significance of this precious day of remembrance.

  • I celebrate myself, and I hope soon the day will come you will be celebrating yourself. And when thousands and thousands of people around the earth are celebrating, singing, dancing, ecstatic, drunk with the divine, there is no possibility of any global suicide. With such festivity and with such laughter, with such sanity and health, with such naturalness and spontaneity, how can there be a war?

    Suicide   Laughter   War  
  • Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.

    Dream   People   Theatre  
    "Le Théâtre du peuple". Book by Romain Rolland, 1903.
  • The habit of a midwinter festivity had come by the dawn of history (and probably very long before) to seem a natural one to the British, and not one to be eradicated by changes of political or religious fashion. ... It was general custom in pagan Europe to decorate spaces with greenery and flowers for festivals, attested wherever records have survived.

    Ronald Hutton (2001). “Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain”, p.71, OUP Oxford
  • 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.

    Blue   Mourning   Joy  
    "Cardiff City dare to dream after play-off heartache of recent seasons" by Stuart James, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.
  • Halloween festivities included an epic scavenger hunt & lots of Looney Tunes.

    Halloween   Epic   Tunes  
    FaceBook post by Dianna Agron from Oct 29, 2012
  • 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.

    Dream   Years   Racism  
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