During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. – Nancy Pearcey
Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people. – Kathie Lee Gifford
Sometimes my body wakes me up and says ‘Hey, you haven’t had pain in a while. How about pain?’ And sometimes I can’t breathe, and that’s hard to live with. But I still celebrate life and don’t give up. – Mattie Stepanek
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don’t listen to anyone who doesn’t know how to dream. – Liza Minnelli
Sometimes at my performances, I see Peruvian flags in the audience. I’ve never seen, when an Italian sings, people with Italian flags. But with Peru, it’s different: because there are not many famous people, they really celebrate the ones they have. – Juan Diego Florez
You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now? – L’Wren Scott
Like my dad, I have a Christmas party most years. I like to celebrate and see as many people as possible. – Lauren Graham
I learned from my grandmother, who grew up in devastating war times, how important it is to keep with tradition and celebrate the holidays during tough times. – Marcus Samuelsson
The move to hide aging is sort of sad. But it’s a wonderful thing to celebrate our aging. – Jesse Ball
Instead of hoping that some day the boys’ club will open its doors, we can form our own clubs, define ‘worthy’ our own way, and celebrate the books and voices that we decide deserve celebration. – Jennifer Weiner
I like to go to anybody else’s birthday, and if I’m invited I’m a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don’t care. – Mikhail Baryshnikov
What I did to celebrate was I went home to my 535-square-foot apartment by myself and ate supper by myself. That was how I celebrated getting a record deal. – Josh Turner
Los Angeles is a true postmodern city. Here, we celebrate with equal aplomb the high and the low. I am just as influenced by the punk rock attitude of local skate and surf cultures as I am by old-school glamour and stardust. – Liz Goldwyn
Maybe strong leaders are not quite as alluring as we think, and we should celebrate the fact that our leaders are just like us. Just because one candidate can’t remember his whole speech and the other likes to put his feet up on the job doesn’t mean they can’t govern. – Jonathan Powell
American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important. – Marcus Buckingham
There haven’t been organized protests, but I have heard of protests where people have wanted to celebrate Halloween. – Lisa Morton
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and celebrate the wrong sort of things. – John Rhys-Davies
It’s such a shame, really, because we were known for our country of saints and scholars, and we grew up with such a great tradition with St. Patrick, and he is the one who brought Christianity to Ireland, and we celebrate St. Patrick’s day every single year, but there’s very few practising Catholics or practising Christians. – Katie Taylor
Three score and, and ten has always been something that I never thought I’d make. So when I made it, I wanted to celebrate it and I did. – Lindsay Fox
Anything we can do to encourage our young people to celebrate the arts and believe in a career in the arts is wonderful for Canada and for Canadian youth. – Liane Balaban