Holiday Quotes - Page 23

• Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

  Leonard Feather

  Voice, Soul, Intensity

  "From Satchmo To Miles". Book by Leonard Feather, p. 84, 1987.

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• America's work ethic is non-stop; it's not even enshrined in law that workers have to get their two weeks holiday money. But Americans work harder than everyone else I can think of.

  Dylan Moran

  Hard Work, Thinking, Law

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• God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. Energy and persistence conquer all things. He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! Oh, it's easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Persistence, Doctors, Energy

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• Instead of waiting until the holiday season - when mail solicitations flood in from worthy organizations - and making a flurry of gifts because this is the time of year to give, sit down and take stock. Identify your passion, learn about it, and direct your time, mind, and dollars to aligned causes and organizations.

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

  Passion, Years, Organization

  "Don’t Give More - Give in a Way that Matters More" by Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

  Amy Sedaris

  Turkeys, Fake, Tea

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• The ACLU spent this entire holiday season protesting public displays of the nativity scene. Yeah, that's the problem with America right now: Public displays of Christ's birth, that's the problem. It's unbelievable to me. The ACLU will no longer fight for your right to put up a nativity scene, but they'll fight for the right of the local freak who wants to stumble onto the scene and have sex with one of the sheep.

  Dennis Miller

  Sex, Fighting, America

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• Guests stay where you've put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they're supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

  Anne Fine

  Drinking, Kitchen, Tea

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• What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  Memories, People, Shapes

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• The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

  Joe Elliott

  Parent, Firsts, Best Holiday

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• Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Merry Christmas, Usa

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2014

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• I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  Mother, Brother, Thinking

  "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.

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• In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Men, Hypocrisy, Rose

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.796, Library of America

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• Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

  Giambattista Valli

  Rome, Balance

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• The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for sure, no one at school knows it's your birthday anymore. It's not like when you're little and your mom brings cupcakes for the whole class. But even though no one knows, you walk around like it's supposed to be a national holiday. You walk around thinking that people are supposed to be nice to you, like maybe on your birthday you're ten times more breakable than on any other day. Well, it doesn't work that way. It just doesn't.

  A.M. Homes

  Mom, Nice, School

  A.M. Homes (2012). “Jack”, p.199, Granta Books

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• Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.

  Nina Dobrev

  Cooks, Occasions

  Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Halloween's my favorite holiday because you don't have to spend it with your family.

  Demetri Martin

  Halloween, My Favorite, Our Family

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• My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

  Geoffrey Fisher

  Sight, Feelings, Bulls

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• Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the 'spirits' of things. A few years back, my wife was frustrated with the same old stupid sound effects tape we would play, which ends with the theme from 'Ghostbusters' and 'Monster Mash'. I told her that Halloween is way too cool a holiday to suffer through this every year.

  Dee Snider

  Halloween, Stupid, Years

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• Purim, one of my favorite holidays. It's like the original drag queen's holiday. It's when all the Jewish men go for it and feel no guilt for a change.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Queens, Men, Guilt

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• I'll be spending the holidays with my family. Nothing special, just some light bickering and biting sarcasm.

  Ray Romano

  Sarcasm, Light, Special

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• Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else can sit at home and reflect on the true meaning of the separation of church and state.

  Samantha Bee

  Christmas, Christian, Religious

  "The Daily Show", www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

  Louise Imogen Guiney

  Life, Reality, Breathing Space

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• Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

  Jane Byrne

  Chicago

  Jane Byrne, Paul Simon (2004). “My Chicago”, p.310, Northwestern University Press

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

  Kevin Whately

  Children

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• I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

  D. L. Hughley

  Fun, Lying

  "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno, January 17, 2008.

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