Holiday Quotes - Page 30

• When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

  Douglas Coupland

  Next Week, Years, Finding Yourself

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thanksgiving, Kings, Valentine

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, March 4, 2010.

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• Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

  Stevie Wonder

  Peace, World

  Song: Happy Birthday, Album: Hotter Than July, 1980

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• All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays.

  Cathy Ladman

  Political, Religion, Guilt

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, 2006.

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• The soul of one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, is always in her palace of jubilation, ever singing with fresh ardor and fresh pleasure a new song of joy and love.

  John of the Cross

  Song, Joy, Swim

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• For many years I enjoyed the pleasure of cruising on my yacht all summer long and these were my best holidays. In mid-May, we'd start in St Tropez. I'd collect my bikinis from my home there and then we'd go up to Cannes for the Film Festival, on to Monte Carlo for the Grand Prix and then to Italy.

  Ivana Trump

  Summer, Home, Years

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• Holidays are enticing only for the first week or so. After that, it is no longer such a novelty to rise late and have little to do.

  Margaret Laurence

  Education, Vacation, Littles

  Margaret Laurence (1993). “A Jest of God”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.

  Aldous Huxley

  Kings, Technology, Rare Events

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “Heaven and hell”

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• I have to confess I can't have the holiday season without "Hard Candy Christmas". For some reason, it makes me think of the sticky ribbon candy bowl my mid-western grandma always had.

  Hank Stuever

  Grandma, Thinking, Ribbons

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

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• Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a yule log, holly or tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all of these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and charity, of freedom and peace.

  Francis Spellman

  Cheer, Children, Home

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• Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivation, Lying, Book

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• My favorite Catholic holiday is Easter. For those of you that don't know, Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus rising from the grave and coming back to Earth as a rabbit that hides colored eggs.

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Jesus, Easter

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• I honestly can't ever imagine retiring because I don't know what else I would do - even when I'm on holiday, 70% of the time I'm working. I think I'd like to go out on the job so, ideally, 'And the winner is... Ooooh, and he's gone!'

  Simon Cowell

  Jobs, Thinking, Gone

  "Simon Cowell says he has been told when he is going to die". Interview with Clemmie Moodie, www.mirror.co.uk. September 25, 2015.

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• Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself.

  Nicolas Cage

  Halloween, Makeup, Thinking

  "Nicolas Cage Is '2 Percent Open' to the Existence of Ghosts" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. September 25, 2015.

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• I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock.

  Peter Andre

  Dad, Father, Hard Work

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• My idea of a perfect holiday is spending time with the family, waking up on Christmas morning or Thanksgiving morning, watching football all day, having the family come over, people you haven't seen...

  Morris Chestnut

  Football, Morning, Ideas

  "Interview: Morris Chestnut and Faizon Love". Interview with Nell Minow, moviemom.maxlazebnik.com. December 12, 2007.

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• I don't spend much on clothes. I buy old books. I tell myself I ought to save - it's the classic Northern work ethic. I like good holidays, though. I'm a big fan of cruises. I love unpacking once and having the scenery change every day.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Book, Clothes, Work Ethic

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Strong, Winter, Animal

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

  Robbie Robertson

  Kids, Years, Ideas

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• Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Christmas, Passion, Winter

  Mary Engelbreit (2003). “Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: The Best Christmas Ever”, p.27, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Wall, Sunshine

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.125

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• I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

  Questlove

  Hate, Sound, Apartment

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Fun, Distance, Home

  "Why we travel" by Jonah Lehrer, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• I don't think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.

  Betty Who

  Home, Thinking, Wonderland

  "Viral Video Singer Betty Who Doesn't Want to Get Proposed to in Home Depot". Interview with Carly Cardellino, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 8, 2013.

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