Family Holiday Quotes

• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

  Hamilton Wright Mabie

  Love, Christmas, Xmas

  Hamilton Wright Mabie (1900). “My study fire: first series”

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• Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.

  Roger Bannister

  Holiday, Lakes, House

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

  Desmond Tutu

  Inspirational, Family, God

  Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, September 7, 1986.

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• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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• Family is not an important thing. It's everything.

  Michael J. Fox

  Inspirational, Family, Vocabulary Words

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

  Bill Vaughan

  Inspirational, Family, Happy

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• I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

  Brooke Burke

  Girl, Dream, Holiday

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• Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

  Peg Bracken

  Love, Christmas, Time

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• Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Christmas, Holiday, Giving

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• And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

  Dr. Seuss

  Christmas, Holiday, Mean

  Dr. Seuss (1995). “Six by Seuss”, Prop Pub Juv

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• Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

  William Thomas Ellis

  Christmas, Xmas, Blessed

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• For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

  William Jewett Tucker

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

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• The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

  William Carey Jones

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

  William Thomas Ellis

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

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• Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

  Pope John XXIII

  Christmas, Xmas, Heart

  Pope John XXIII (1996). “Days of Devotion: Daily Meditations from the Good Shepherd”, Viking Press

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• I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

  Samantha Bond

  Holiday, Relaxed, I Can

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• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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• I've got two young children, so holidays are not the same as they used to be. There are now two types: family holidays and holidays you need from that holiday.

  Diego Luna

  Children, Holiday, Two

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• Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

  Noah Wyle

  Thanksgiving, Horse, Holiday

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• Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

  Jose Andres

  School, Holiday, Kids

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• I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Jobs, Believe, Holiday

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• Long weekends at festivals, short weeks at home, all summer long: now that is surely preferable to the immense cost and headache of the nuclear family holiday in the sun?

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Summer, Home, Holiday

  "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.

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• Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

  Olivia Williams

  Mother, Memories, Father

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• I get that rush that comes when you know you're doing something wrong and are getting away with it, like stealing from the school cafeteria of getting tipsy at a family holiday without anyone knowing it.

  Lauren Oliver

  School, Holiday, Knowing

  Lauren Oliver (2010). “Before I Fall”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a family holiday in California.

  Anthony Head

  Couple, Holiday, California

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