Holiday Quotes - Page 10

• A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

  Mark Twain

  New Year, Dozen, Littles

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• New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Marriage, New Year

  Mark Twain (1979). “Early Tales & Sketches, Vol. 1: 1851-1864”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

  Fanny Fern

  Mother, Cousin, Uncles

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.25, The Floating Press

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• I think holidays create so much pressure because people feel they should be having a good time. But you shouldn't.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic holidays, talented pets and endless, tedious detail. The notes that accompanied them revealed they had inspired in the original recipients everything from mild irritation to absolute rage.

  Simon Hoggart

  Children, Years, Irritation

  "Glad tidings we bring ..." by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2004.

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• I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn't, somebody else would have and we'd still be here. Big deal.

  John Waters

  Fake People, Monday, Hate

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• In August most of Europe goes on holiday.

  Tony Visconti

  August, Europe, Goes On

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• My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

  Johnny Vegas

  Home, Vacation, Two

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• One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Years, Laughing

  "Wishing You A Happy, Blunder-Free Thanksgiving" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Thinking, Cities

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• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  Barbra Streisand

  Records, Listening To Music, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Pride, Age

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• I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

  Rufus Sewell

  Style, Littles, Flight

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

  Dan Savage

  Corporations

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 08, 2006.

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• With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fun, Regret, Book

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• Wal-Mart doesn't really care about your faith. Wal-Mart cares if you have money to spend, and it is going to be as generic as possible in exploiting the holiday season for every buck it can make.

  Richard Roeper

  Faith, Care, Bucks

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• Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it's not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don't want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it's not unhealthy, so I'm going to rock with it.

  Rihanna

  Sexy, Book, Curves

  "Rihanna: Living Out Loud". Interview with Jonathan Van Meter, www.vogue.com. March 16, 2011.

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• I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday.

  Amy Poehler

  Hate, Halloween, Makeup

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• I always went to Ireland as a child. I remember trips to Dundalk, Wexford, Cork and Dublin. My gran was born in Dublin, and we had a lot of Irish friends, so we'd stay on their farms and go fishing. They were fantastic holidays - being outdoors all day and coming home to a really warm welcome in the evenings.

  Vinnie Jones

  Children, Home, Fishing

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• I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, Thinking, People

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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• What do believers in the Absolute mean by saving that their belief affords them comfort? They mean that since in the Absolute finite evil is ‘overruled’ already, we may, therefore, whenever we wish, treat the temporal as if it were potentially the eternal, be sure that we can trust its outcome, and, without sin, dismiss our fear and drop the worry of our finite responsibility. In short, they mean that we have a right ever and anon to take a moral holiday, to let the world wag in its own way, feeling that its issues are in better hands than ours and are none of our business.

  William James

  Mean, Responsibility, Hands

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• A sombrero fell out of the sky and landed on the main street of town in front of the mayor, his cousin, and a person out of work. The day was scrubbed clean by the desert air. The sky was blue. It was the blue of human eyes, waiting for something to happen. There was no reason for a sombrero to fall out of the sky. No airplane or helicopter was passing overhead and it was not a religious holiday.

  Richard Brautigan

  Religious, Cousin, Fall

  Richard Brautigan (1976). “Sombrero Fallout”, Simon & Schuster

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• I tried to take solace in Holiday, our dog. I missed him in a way I hadn't yet let myself miss my mother and father, my sister and brother. That way of missing would mean that I had accepted that I would never be with them again; it might sound silly but I didn't believe it, would not believe it.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Dog, Brother

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• Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

  Lois Lowry

  Today

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every Valentine's Day, the student council sponsered a holiday fundraiser by selling roses that would be delievered in class. The roses came in four colors:white, yellow, red, pink, and the subtleties of thier meaning were parsed and analyzed by the female population to no end. Mimi had always understood it thus:white for love, yellow for friendship, red for passion, and pink for a secret crush.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Crush, Valentine, Passion

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