New Year S Day Quotes

“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."

(Little Gidding)”
― T.S. Eliot

“We were, each of us… at a crossroads of public and private dynamics which had brought us to this frame-worthy moment. I thought of the different currents and crosscurrents of history which had formed, merged, broken apart, and reformed to create the opportunity for us to give something essential to each other’s lives.”
― Aberjhani, Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah

“God bless the lawn mower, he thought. Who was the fool who made January first New Year’s Day? No, they should set a man to watch the grasses across a million Illinois, Ohio, and Iowa lawns, and on that morning when it was long enough for cutting, instead of ratchets and horns and yelling, there should be a great swelling symphony of lawn mowers reaping fresh grass upon the prairie lands. Instead of confetti and serpentine, people should throw grass spray at each other on the one day each year that really represents Beginning!”
― Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

“Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.”
― R. Joseph Hoffmann

“Your birthday is your personal New Year's Day.”
― Robin S. Baker

“Same mind with same old ideas enters the same old year; only the new mind with new ideas enters the New Year!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The world asks, as it asks daily:
And what can you make, can you do, to change my deep-broken, fractured?

I count, this first day of another year, what remains.
I have a mountain, a kitchen, two hands.”
― Jane Hirshfield, The Asking: New and Selected Poems

“January is the calendar's ingrown hair.”
― Stewart Stafford

“As a kid, I thought the song Auld Lang Syne was called Old Man's Eye. I like my version better.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Same Old, Game Old by Stewart Stafford

On the first day of the new year,
Chronos's roulette wheel rolls,
Seeing the thermometer do 60,
Scraping shadows off the fridge.

Teddy bear plays hide-and-seek,
With a giant, grey beast that barks,
And an elephant with a rainbow gut,
But some things should go AWOL

Dinner plate talismans bring cheer,
Windfall greens and Jupiter peas,
Coins tossed in an oracle's grotto,
Marching into the fog of life ahead.

© Stewart Stafford, 2023. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“So, today, I will not make promises to do better, to live healthier, or to save money. These are natural and valid attempts to regulate a future that is impossible to know. But, I will abandon the ritual of unwrapping a fresh package of new resolutions which feel individual in nature. They perpetuate a myth of self-sufficiency. Instead, I wish to live daringly in community and to accept the challenges our collective moment has to offer. I won’t look away in an attempt to live an anxiety-free life.”
― Major Jackson