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But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one drink and every time it makes me feel sick. So I don't touch booze - I'm always the designated driver.

I played Baby New Year. When everybody started hollering and throwing confetti, I thought it was for me.

My New Year's resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

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.

Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast.

Although I'd first seen Senator Hart in Aspen, Colorado, at a New Year's Day party in 1987, we hadn't talked.

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

My parents used to throw great New Year's Eve parties. They invited such an eclectic mix of showbiz people. All those cool people were always hanging out at our apartment.

For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.