Holiday Quotes - Page 37

• It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.

  Claire Holden Rothman

  War, Generosity, Hopeful

  Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

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• Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either.  Money loves people that have great work ethic.

  Grant Cardone

  People, Work Ethic, Schedules

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• I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

  Maria Shriver

  Kids, Night, People

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2008.

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• I listened to Billie Holiday a lot in order to learn to sing. She remains one of the extraordinary jazz singers. But my intent is to become my own voice, to be able to interpret these songs in my own way.

  Madeleine Peyroux

  Song, Order, Voice

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• CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times.

  Hunter Tylo

  Kids, People, Safety

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• My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

  Honor Blackman

  Father, Rain, Shelter

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• It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.

  Denis Norden

  Children, Memories, Talking

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• I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

  Brad Goreski

  Party, Giving, Feelings

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• Celebrating the future is about celebrating a better world: a world in which everyone's life is easier and their health is maintained longer. It’ll be a life where there’s more time for leisure - for enriching each other’s lives rather than just running to stand still. In other words, more holiday time! So a holiday is absolutely the appropriate way to help us focus on it and make it a reality soon.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Running, Reality, Focus

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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

  Mean, Phones, Found You

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• Pecans are not cheap, my hons. In fact, in the South, the street value of shelled pecans just before holiday baking season is roughly that of crack cocaine. Do not confuse the two. It is almost impossible to make a decent crack cocaine tassie, I am told.

  Celia Rivenbark

  Two, Cracks, Pecans

  Celia Rivenbark (2009). “You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning”, p.44, Macmillan

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• I have been determined for the past couple of years to move away from all those Holiday programmes.

  Jill Dando

  Couple, Moving, Past

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• My nan used to look after me in the summer holidays and she had a cat with one eye. It used to walk into walls and tables. I used to think it was hilarious. It was a slapstick cat.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Summer, Wall

  "The mighty clowns" by Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2006.

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• I never realized how many holidays encroached on the collegiate training schedule. When I was training for the Olympics, only one holiday interested me, the Day After the Games.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Games, Training, Schedules

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• I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

  Devon Werkheiser

  Sweet, Work Out, Teeth

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• For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a huge advocate, particularly to places which have amazing wildlife, such as Antarctica, India and Patagonia.

  Miranda Richardson

  Years, India, Wildlife

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• I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.

  Walter F. Mondale

  Years, Two, Want

  1976 On withdrawing from the presidential campaign.

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• One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

  Bobby Flay

  Men, Games, House

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Martha Stewart Show, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

  Hayley Atwell

  Light, Indulge In, Literature

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• A 'For Sale' sign in your yard during the holidays is like a 'kick me' sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

  Ray Brown

  Yards, Buyers, Kicks

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• My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

  Stephanie Beacham

  Drama, Athens, Able

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• My idea of a beach holiday is going to New York for two weeks, just going and hanging out.

  Bill Condon

  Beach, New York, Ideas

  "'BREAKING DAWN': NEW PHOTOS AND A CHAT WITH THE DIRECTOR!". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. August 28, 2012.

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• It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks.

  Martin Amis

  Home, Writing, Weather

  "The Sadistic Muse". Interview with Laura Miller, February 10, 1998.

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• Workers should have Sundays off because Sunday is for the family. Calling for Sundays to be a holiday.

  Pope Francis

  Sunday, Happy Life, Should Have

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• Within the decade, Microsoft should have a minimum of 300 stores. They should do as well as the Apple Stores... [Microsoft] is going to experiment with holiday pop-up shops this year in various cities. I predict they will be hugely successful.

  John C. Dvorak

  Successful, Cities, Apples

  "Microsoft Retail Stores Will Rival Apple Stores". www.pcmag.com. October 3, 2012.

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