Words matter. These are the best New Year Quotes from famous people such as Bob Casey, Jr., Michael Dirda, Benjamin Franklin, Alice Roberts, Toby Alderweireld, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You always want to be open to possibilities in the new year.
For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
Pagan Romans started their midwinter celebrations with the feast of Saturnalia on 17 December, ending them with a new year festival, the Kalendae Januariae, at the start of January – both were celebrated with parties and the exchange of gifts.
Since I was 15, I have not spent a Christmas or a New Year with my family.
The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
The new year 2015 will be a year of great significance, in which we will mark the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man’s-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.
And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.
My cameo appearance in ‘Happy New Year’ doesn’t mean I am seriously considering a shift to cinema, not at all.
May God be with me! May Heaven bless this New Year. May it be a year of fruitfulness, of peace and prosperity; may it be a year of peace and unity for all mankind; may the world be freed of cholera.
By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.
I choose to lead an eco-friendly life as a New Year resolution. Global Warming is a reality. It has to be collective effort.
I love London in the rare parts of the year when it’s quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.
I enjoy the New Year best by performing in front of a huge crowd.
Why is there an end of the year? Because the calendar imposes numerical order on time. There is a natural fitness in the celebration of the New Year, a holiday of numbers imposed on things, with lists, as well as with Advent calendars and songs like ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas.’
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
With the new year comes a refueled motivation to improve on the past one.
Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn’t it, of a long line of proven criminals?
When it comes to the New Year, I make it a point to catch my mum and dad awake before the clock strikes 12. Then, I celebrate the night with friends.
In my house, the Rose Parade and the Rose Bowl Game have always been a grand tradition for ringing in the New Year. To serve as Grand Marshal is a dream come true and I look forward to sharing the celebration with all of the fans and viewers worldwide.
If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am.
It’s always exciting to get back out there with the teammates and start a new year and get on the field.
If you crave an anti-new year New Year, consider adopting Rosh Hashana as your own.
I am not very comfortable about dancing at weddings and New Year parties. Maybe it’s because of the way I have been brought up; I wouldn’t want my family to feel that cringe moment. Dance is an art for me.
The only place I do avoid is Trafalgar Square on New Year’s Eve. I saw in the New Year there once – it was the most terrifying experience of my life.
Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions. I think if you want to change something, change it today and don’t wait until the New Year.
The sight of people sleeping on the streets hits us hardest around Christmas and New Year. We see them camped out alone on the freezing concrete, and we think, with a rush of guilt, about heading home to our families and our soft beds.
I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it’s in a club, whether it’s in a bar, it doesn’t matter, and I just work on New Year’s Eve because I always feel it’s very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals.
When I was a small child we were allowed to wait up until midnight on 31 December. Then as the TV chimed, Dad would run to the front door and open it, welcoming the New Year air. This is the kind of entertainment you make in poor families, and cry to your therapist about when you’re rich.
A part of ‘Happy New Year’ is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the ’80s.
Each year is a new year.
The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows.
I don’t like to think of goals I set at the new year as resolutions. I like to think of them as summits on my personal mountain. Each year gets me closer to the dreams I want to achieve, and the goals are those benches to sit and enjoy the view along the way.
I never want to say that I had glory days. I like to think that every new year there’s something great that can happen, something great will happen, whether it’s a basketball thing or an off-the-court thing.
Come to think of it, some of the most special films in my career were ‘City Of Life’ and ‘Happy New Year.’ For both these films, I stayed over a month in Dubai and just when I was thinking that I need one more film like that, that’s when ‘Kung Fu Yoga’ happened.
I think if there’s something one needs to change with oneself, it doesn’t have to happen in the New Year. You can do that any time you please – not that it’s not a good inspirational tactic for the people that it works for.
Every single year, I go through once the new year hits, I go through this moment where I kind of think about how far I’ve come and what’s changed.