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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Christmas, Xmas, Holiday

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we'd bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

  Gareth Bale

  Football, Real, Holiday

  "Gareth Bale: It was a relief when world-record transfer to Real Madrid finally happened". www.mirror.co.uk. September 4, 2013.

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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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• My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Dad, School, Holiday

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues.

  Virginia Heffernan

  Holiday, Mean, Phones

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• Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

  Lenora Mattingly Weber

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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