Holiday Quotes - Page 21

• A political action committee trying to raise money for a 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign is selling “Ready for Hillary” champagne glasses and Christmas ornaments. Because if one thing improves the holidays, it's drinking mixed with politics.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Drinking, Glasses, Political

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• With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing in the last twenty years.

  Frank Sinatra

  Years, Musical, Singing

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• I've never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don't understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Inspirational, Order, Needs

  "The Idler's view" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2005.

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• Im probably the only one in the world you can name thats worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. Fly Me to the Moon was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. Im the only one.

  Quincy Jones

  Moon, Rapper, Names

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• I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

  Michael Baden

  Weekend, People, Saws

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• Success in your work, the finding a better method, the better understanding that insures the better performing is hat and coat, is food and wine, is fire and horse and health and holiday. At least, I find that any success in my work has the effect on my spirits of all these.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Horse, Wine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.318, Courier Corporation

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• Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.

  Pepper Schwartz

  Expectations, Wonder, Enough

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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, Kids, Long

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• I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

  Mary Roach

  Beach, Pain, Loneliness

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• Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Grief, Sadness

  "Orthodoxy". Book by G. K. Chesterton, Chapter VIII. "The Romances of Orthodoxy", 1908.

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• I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Travel, Long Ago, West Coast

  Song: Holiday Road

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• If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Travel, Nice, One Day

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• I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Sweet, Home, Stuff

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

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• I had a wonderful holiday, a wonderful New Year and it was very special. That's all you're getting out of me.

  Katrina Kaif

  New Year, Years, Special

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• It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

  Mike Carey

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• Unfortunately much of it is frittered away on fast cars, designer clothes and an attitude to pleasure reminiscent of the 18-30 holiday packages.

  Ken Bates

  Soccer, Football, Attitude

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• One could make money and get a career going with a low-budget horror film about killers attacking on holidays. It is always flattering to have somebody copy you.

  John Carpenter

  Careers, Killers, Making Money

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• The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

  Andrew Davies

  Fun, Writing, People

  Source: collider.com

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• But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

  Lord Byron

  Food, Kids, Cooking

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.71, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?

  Gary Yourofsky

  Thinking, Turkeys, People

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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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• Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

  Marge Piercy

  Religious, Years, Tree

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• The holidays often bring challenging conversations and situations. Sometimes holiness demands that we speak, other times it invites us to be silent. In all circumstances, though, we are called to love.

  Mark Hart

  Challenges, Demand, Holiness

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• Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market.

  Debi Mazar

  Queens, Fun, Grandma

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• I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

  Kevin Whately

  Children

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