1. Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration-Shri Radhe Maa
2. The greatness of a culture can be found in its festivals.-Siddharth Katragadda
3. Festivals are fun for kids, fun for parents and offer a welcome break from the stresses of the nuclear family. The sheer quantities of people make life easier: loads of adults for the adults to talk to and loads of kids for the kids to play with-Tom Hodgkinson
4. A national festival is an occasion to refine and rebuild the national character.-Narendra Modi
5. The festivals are like a map charting our spiritual progress in God.-Anonymous
6. Festivals promote diversity, they bring neighbors into dialogue, they increase creativity, they offer opportunities for civic pride, they improve our general psychological well-being. In short, they make cities better places to live.-David Binder
7. Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you’ve heard but not had the chance to check out.-Johnny Marr
8. Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.-Henry Rollins
9. There are as many festivals as there are mosquitoes after a rain.-Kent Jones
10. Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.-Pierre de Coubertin
11. To celebrate a festival means: to live out, for some special occasion and in an uncommon manner, the universal assent to the world as a whole.-Josef Pieper
12. Feasts and festivals are a feature of all major religions.-Anonymous
13. The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed.-Oliver Wendell Holmes