Holiday Quotes - Page 13

• The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

  Dan Harmon

  Numbers, Tvs, Fantastic

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• The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

  John Burroughs

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers”

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• It was as if we were at the heart of a maze. We were overwhelmed by the enormity of the tasks ahead. Mary had given us a bottle of milk and a spoonful of loose tea, and so, unable to decide what to do, we did what all Irish men and women do: we had tea. Suddenly the sun appeared and not for the first or last time we felt it uplifting us and changing everything. It seemed like a holiday.

  Niall Williams

  Uplifting, Heart, Men

  Niall Williams, Christine Breen (1989). “O Come Ye Back to Ireland: Our First Year in County Clare”, Soho PressInc

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• What failure ofimagination had caused me to forget that life was full of other possiblities, including the possibility that eventually I would fall in love again?

  Nora Ephron

  Falling In Love, Forget, Possibility

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• Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays, so there is a plural, which in the English language necessitates the use of the letter "S." Now, I suppose you could say "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" but you probably have sh*t to do.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Christmas, New Year

  "The Daily Show's Stewart responds to O'Reilly's misleading attack". "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart, www.mediamatters.org. December 7, 2005.

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• I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

  Drake Bell

  Thinking, Atmosphere, Spirit

  "Miranda Cosgrove Interviews Drake Bell for Teen!". Interview with Mirando Cosgrove, www.seventeen.com. December 09, 2008.

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• Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of holiday. In the Netherlands the first cutting coincides with Father's Day, on which restaurants may feature all-asparagus menus and hand out neckties decorated with asparagus spears.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Father, Mean, Cutting

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.30, Faber & Faber

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• Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

  Bob Hope

  Home, May, Beats

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

  Flann O'Brien

  Humorous, Horror, Recollection

  Flann O'Brien (1985). “Myles away from Dublin: being a selection from the column written for The Nationalist and Leinster times, Carlow, under the name of George Knowall”, Grafton

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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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• We had no churches, no religious organizations, no sabbath day, no holidays, and yet we worshiped. Sometimes the whole tribe would assemble to sing and pray; sometimes a smaller number, perhaps only two or three. The songs had a few words, but were not formal. The singer would occasionally put in such words as he wished instead of the usual tone sound. Sometimes we prayed in silence; sometimes each one prayed aloud; sometimes an aged person prayed for all of us. At other times one would rise and speak to us of our duties to each other and to Usen. Our services were short.

  Geronimo

  Song, Religious, Organization

  "Geronimo: My Life".

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• Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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

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• Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, New Year, Men

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• But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

  Andre Gide

  New Year, Years, Old Year

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• The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

  W. H. Auden

  Funny, New Year, Years

  "Happy New Year" by Ligaya Mishan, www.newyorker.com. December 29, 200.

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• A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.

  Edgar Guest

  New Year, Eye, Years

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• Glory to God in highest heaven, Who unto man His Son hath given; While angels sing with tender mirth, A glad new year to all the earth.

  Martin Luther

  New Year, Spiritual, Angel

  Martin Luther, “From Heaven Above To Earth I Come”

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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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• 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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• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Regret, Adversity

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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• Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Children, Flower

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• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

  May Sarton

  Giving, Environmental, Looks

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.105, Open Road Media

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• Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Pay, Leisure, Hours

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

  David O. Selznick

  Christmas, Depressing, Sunday

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• The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

  Christina Applegate

  Animal, People, Trying

  "Fur: Get Me Not!". The PETA Interview, www.peta.org.

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