Holiday Quotes - Page 24

• Over the years I’ve collected a thousand memories of you, every glimpse, every word you’ve ever said to me. All those visits to your family’s home, those dinners and holidays—I could hardly wait to walk through the front door and see you.” The corners of his mouth quirked with reminiscent amusement. “You, in the middle of that brash, bull-headed lot…I love watching you deal with your family. You’ve always been everything I thought a woman should be. And I have wanted you every second of my life since we first met.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Memories, Home, Doors

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• "If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away on a holiday when the selling time comes around?

  Jesse Lauriston Livermore

  Investing, Selling, Trading

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• The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Boys, Blessing

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.294

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• Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

  Daniel Handler

  Funny Work, Talking, Labor Day

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• This leg will be known as Christmas, and this leg will be known as New Year's Eve! Ladies...why don't you all come visit the Big Valbowski between the holidays.

  Val Venis

  New Year, Wrestling, Years

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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, Two, Needs

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• Art should be like a holiday: something to give a man the opportunity to see things differently and to change his point of view.

  Paul Klee

  Art, Opportunity, Men

  "Der Bauhaus". Film on TV-Rechte, Germany, 1975.

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• Food historian Jessica B. Harris says African American cuisine is simply what black people ate. When I think about what my family ate, we ate what people think of as soul food on special occasions, on holidays, but our typical diet was leafy greens and nutrients and tubers - food that was as fresh as being harvested right before our meal. Whatever was in season, that's what we were eating. It was being harvested right from our backyard.

  Bryant Terry

  Thinking, People, African American

  "MoJo Video: Bryant Terry’s Vegan Soul Kitchen". Interview With Brittney Andres, www.motherjones.com. April 10, 2009.

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• I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Travel, Long Ago, West Coast

  Song: Holiday Road

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• If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Running, Beach, Workout

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• I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

  Tony Bennett

  Records, Today, Sophisticated

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• Debt never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation...it is never laid off work...it buys no food; it wears no clothes; it is unhoused... it has neither weddings nor births nor deaths; it has no love, no sympathy; it is as hard and soulless as a granite cliff. Once in debt, it is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it...and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.

  J. Reuben Clark

  Crush, Sleep, Sunday

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• I think they should create a holiday for friends-with-benefits relationships. Because I feel like Valentine's Day is, maybe it's a day to stay home and cry.

  Elizabeth Meriwether

  Valentines Day, Home, Thinking

  "NO STRINGS ATTACHED Interview with Natalie Portman, Ashton Kutcher, Director Ivan Reitman and Screenwriter Liz Meriwether". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Fun, Grandma

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• Holidays were invented so single women could overeat without feeling guilty.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Feelings, Guilty, Single Women

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• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Teacher, Retirement, Rejection

  Simone de Beauvoir (1972). “La vieillesse”

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• I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

  Michael Baden

  Weekend, People, Saws

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• Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Our many different cultures notwithstanding, there's something about the holidays that makes the planet communal. Even nations that do not celebrate Christmas can't help but be caught up in the collective spirit of their neighbors, as twinkling lights dot the landscape and carols fill the air. It's an inspiring time of the year.

  Marlo Thomas

  Christmas, Children, Memories

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• Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.

  Lindsay Ellingson

  Valentines Day, Valentine's Day, My Favorite

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• It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

  Alicia Silverstone

  Thanksgiving, Animal, Simple

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• I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

  Erykah Badu

  Beautiful, Moving, Hands

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• I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Father, Two Sides, Next

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• Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes.

  Mark Twain

  Death, Grateful, Grief

  Autobiography ch. 49 (1959)

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• Some people want to give money to their children, buy houses, go on a holiday - whatever it is that they want to invest in. This particular journey has been something that I wanted to do most of my life, but there was no real opportunity to do so.

  Sarah Brightman

  Children, Real, Opportunity

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• When i play in Las Vegas I play for money, when I play in Miami I play for holidays but when I play in #India I play for Love

  Axwell

  Vegas, Play, India

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