Holiday Quotes - Page 14

• The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.

  Douglas Bader

  Sea, Dover, England

  Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

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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

  Lakes, House, Guests

  "Breaking the Four-Minute Mile". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 7, 2002.

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• Year's end, all
  corners of this
  floating world, swept.

  Matsuo Basho

  Winter, Years, Floating

  Matsuo Basho, “Year’s End,”

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• Who first invented work, and bound the free And holiday-rejoicing spirit down . . . . To that dry drudgery at the desk's dead wood? . . . . Sabbathless Satan!

  Charles Lamb

  Work, Dry, Woods

  Charles Lamb (1860). “The Works of Charles Lamb ...”, p.385

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• If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only as an occupation because you are feeling lost and there is nothing to do - a long holiday, so you start doing something... That is not coming out of your silences, it is coming out of your crazy mind.

  Rajneesh

  Crazy, Creativity, Long

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• When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.

  Archibald Geikie

  Notebook, Autumn, Science

  Sir Archibald Geikie (1858). “The Story of a Boulder: Or, Gleanings from the Note-book of a Field Geologist”, p.9

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• His driving is unbelievable. I don't go that far on my holidays.

  Ian Baker-Finch

  Golf, Driving, Unbelievable

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• Tomorrow is always the sluggard's working day; today is his holiday

  Richard Baxter

  Today, Tomorrow, Christianity

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• I have strong doubts that the first Thanksgiving even remotely resembled the 'history' I was told in second grade. But considering that (when it comes to holidays) mainstream America's traditions tend to be over-eating, shopping, or getting drunk, I suppose it's a miracle that the concept of giving thanks even surfaces at all.

  Ellen Orleans

  Thanksgiving, Strong, Shopping

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• I think it's fascinating that there's a whole holiday dedicated to things that we fear and that's so interesting about the nature of humanity.

  Deborah Ann Woll

  Thinking, Interesting, Humanity

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

  Roger Federer

  New York, Paris, London

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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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• I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

  Michael Phelps

  Church, Used

  "More Questions with Michael Phelps". content.time.com. April 19, 2007.

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• I'm suprised he doesn't send Christmas cards," Antonio said. "I can see them now. Tasteful, embossed veilum cards, the best he can steal. Little notes in perfect penmanship,"Happy holidays. Hope everyone is well. I sliced up Ethan Ritter in Miami and scattered his remains in the Atlantic. Best wishes for the new year. Karl.

  Kelley Armstrong

  New Year, Years, Best Wishes

  Kelley Armstrong (2012). “Werewolves: Book One: Bitten, Stolen and Beginnings”, p.131, Vintage Canada

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• I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.

  Alex Garland

  Mistake, Writing, Mind

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• 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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• Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  Fall, Sea, Salt

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• 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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• "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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