Holiday Quotes - Page 25

• I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Wish, Doe

  Abraham Lincoln (2001). “Lincoln's Words: Sentiments from the 16th President of the United States”

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• Halloween is an ancient druidic holiday, one the Celtic peoples have celebrated for millennia. It is the crack between the last golden rays of summer and the dark of winter; the delicately balanced tweak of the year before it is given over entirely to the dark; a time for the souls of the departed to squint, to peek and perhaps to travel through the gap. What could be more thrilling and worthy of celebration than that? It is a time to celebrate sweet bounty, as the harvest is brought in. It is a time of excitement and pleasure for children before the dark sets in. We should all celebrate that.

  Jenny Colgan

  Summer, Sweet, Children

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• I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

  Dick Gephardt

  Kings, School, Law

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• The FDA is now warning people not to eat raw cookie dough this holiday season. Is that how fat we're getting in this country? Our ovens are too slow now?

  Jay Leno

  Country, Fda, People

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• If you're thinking of coming to America, this is what it's like: you've got your Comfort Inn, you've got your Best Western, and you've got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody's very fat, everybody's very stupid and everybody's very rude - it's not a holiday programme, it's the truth.

  Jeremy Clarkson

  Stupid, Thinking, America

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• WE HAD AN AMAZING STAY AT SURF AND SUNSET VILLA. THE WHOLE FAMILY REALLY ENJOYED THE HOLIDAY AND THE SURF WAS GREAT!

  Tim Regan

  Sunset, Villa, Surf

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• The urge to pass new laws must be seen as an illness, not much different from the urge to bite old women. Anyone suspected of suffering from it should either be treated with the appropriate pills or, if it is too late for that, elected to parliament [or congress, as the case may be] and paid a huge salary with endless holidays, to do nothing whatever.

  Auberon Waugh

  Law, Suffering, May

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• Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me and realized I need to find a way to put the fun back into racing.

  Kurt Busch

  Thanksgiving, Fun, Racing

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• I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

  Penelope Cruz

  Addiction, Littles, Bathroom

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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, Vision

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• I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Country, Nashville, Years

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• That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Stories, Way, Disputes

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• What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.

  Lewis Black

  Valentines Day, Looks, Valentine's Day

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• I have published in 'The New Yorker,' 'Holiday,' 'Life,' 'Mademoiselle,' 'American Heritage,' 'Horizon,' 'The Ladies Home Journal,' 'The Kenyon Review,' 'The Sewanee Review,' 'Poetry,' 'Botteghe Oscure,' the 'Atlantic Monthly,' 'Harper's.'

  Paul Engle

  Home, Horizon, Heritage

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• One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Christmas, Things I Love, Tradition

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• The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

  Lewis Black

  Valentines Day, Years, Giving

  "Lewis Black on the things he'll always love". Interview with David Wolinsky, www.avclub.com. February 15, 2010.

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• It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you see people at their work they elicit respect, whether it's a mechanic, a stonemason or an accountant.

  Alain de Botton

  Beach, Hate, Silly

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• John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

  Cornel West

  America, Our Society, Eugene O Neill

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. The pilgrims came here with the best intentions. They decided to flee an oppressive people and move to a new land. Where they thrived. And became an oppressive people. You get certain people on the same continent, there's going to be a problem. Pilgrims and Indians. Protestants, Catholics. My family, anybody else's family.

  Christopher Titus

  Moving, Land, Two

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Halloween is just a made up holiday, created by the razor blade industry.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Halloween, Razors, Blades

  Twitter post from Oct 30, 2010

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• When I work as a model, it feels like holiday. Doing a shoot is so light in a way that it's really a good break from being a mother or running a charitable organization and other philanthropic projects that I'm really passionate about.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Mother, Running, Organization

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

  Mark Twain

  Xmas, Forgotten, Values

  Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain's Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens-Angelfish Correspondence, 1905-1910”, p.89, University of Georgia Press

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• Jewish people, we don't believe in Hell or a future place to suffer. We're suffering right now. Every one of our holidays celebrates how much we've suffered. Passover - we're celebrating 5,000 years ago, God passed over our houses and murdered all the Egyptians. We're celebrating, 'Hey, thank God we didn't get slaughtered.

  Andy Kindler

  Believe, Years, People

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• I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

  Action Bronson

  Turkeys, Bbq, Meals

  "Meet The Rapper Everyone's Talking About". Interview with Jeremy Berger, www.askmen.com.

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• Thanksgiving is a holiday that brought together two different cultures. And things might not always work out like you think they should. But they always work out. I'm thankful that the world's in perfect harmony at all times. Pilgrims had it tough. But now, we live in the strongest, most prosperous country in the world. And the Indians, well, you know.

  Christopher Titus

  Country, Thinking, Two

  "Titus / The Perfect Thanksgiving". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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