#celebration

All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family member hits puberty, odds are that everybody is not going to have the same ideals. Unless everybody gets together and agrees that the new ideals involve turning the front yard into a skate ramp and officially changing Dad's name to Fuckhead. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#florida #humor #parenting #change

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#celebration #committees #confers #diligence #due

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

#celebrate #celebration #club #clubs #day

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. ↗

— Martha Graham

#comparatively #dance #foot #magic #miracle

I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people. ↗

— Michael D. Higgins

#core #decency #endless #i #i love

I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews. ↗

— Damon Hill

#after #anxiety #celebration #each #exorcism

The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism. ↗

— David Icke

#celebration #ceremonies #closing #disguised #language

I'd like to say that parody is a celebration of a person's specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery. ↗

— Ana Gasteyer

#characteristics #i #like #mockery #opposed

If whiteness were of no particular advantage, then having a fuller color wheel of skin tones would be purely a matter of celebration. But whiteness - just a drop of it - does still carry privilege. You learn that very young in America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#america #carry #celebration #color #does