American media proprietor and talk show host Oprah Winfrey wrote in O, The Oprah Magazine for New Year’s Day 2004:
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
Oprah’s New Year’s toast has been included in many New Year’s Day quotation collections.
Wikipedia: Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Gail Winfrey (born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and was nationally syndicated from 1986 to 2011. Dubbed the “Queen of All Media”, she has been ranked the richest African-American of the 20th century, the greatest black philanthropist in American history, and is currently North America’s first and only multi-billionaire black person.
4 January 2004, Sarasota (FL) herald Tribune, “Happy New Year, everyone!,” pg. L20:
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right,” wrote Oprah Winfrey in O Magazine.
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Happy New Year, All!
Susan
12/29/04
(...)
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
—Oprah Winfrey
1 January 2006, The News Press (Fort Myers, FL), “Make a resolution to see more theater in 2006,” pg. L4:
While it’s been said that a New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other, I’d rather go along with television talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who said it best: “Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.”
26 February 2006, Indiana (PA) Gazette, “Using the Internet to advantage your gardening” by Maureen Gilmer, pg. E-6, col. 1:
“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it irght.”
It waa Oprah who said that. But no truer words were ever said for gardeners.
Google Books
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Right Words for Any Occasion
By Veronica Deisler and Marylou Ambrose
New York, NY: Alpha Books
2008
Pg. 175:
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. — Oprah Winfrey
Google Books
Say It With Style
Edited by Tanya Fox
Berne, IN: House of WHite Birches
2008
Pg. 86:
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. —Oprah Winfrey
Google Books
Resolutions & Reflections for the New Year:
A Time for Creative Change
By Alicia Brent
Published by author
2014
Pg. ?:
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Oprah Winfrey
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps. Stolen and missing, 2021-2024.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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