Adjara/traditional Public Festivals

Famous quotes containing the words traditional, public and/or festivals:

“I come from a long line of male chauvinists in a very traditional family. To rebel against my background, I didn’t shoot dope—I married a working woman.”
—Joe Bologna (20th century)

“O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you,
You express me better than I can express myself.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

“Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping—rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year’s and Easter and Christmas—But, goodness, why need they do it?”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)