Holiday Quotes - Page 5

• The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Fall, Home, Past

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• Some holiday traditions are sacred. In our house one such tradition is the annual Christmas classic cinema celebration.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Healing, House, Cinema

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2012). “Simple Abundance”, Random House

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• Holidays - Have no pity.

  Eugenio Montale

  Pity

  Eugenio Montale (1966). “Selected Poems”, p.79, New Directions Publishing

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• the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.

  Ellis Peters

  Travel, Spots, Depends

  Ellis Peters (2015). “Flight of a Witch”, p.207, Open Road Media

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• There is less leisure now than in the Middle Ages, when one third of the year consisted of holidays and festivals.

  Ralph Borsodi

  Years, Age, Festivals

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• The two great moments in human history are the day that Christ was born and the day He was raised from the dead. These are represented by Christmas and Easter - the two biggest holidays for the church. People who don't even go to church do go on these days.

  Louie Giglio

  Easter, Two, People

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

  O. Henry

  Dresses, Earth, Enchanting

  O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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  I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Quoted in Barbara Rowes, The Book of Quotes (1979)

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• Thoughts turn to other's just a little more this time of year. Days grow shorter and memories grow longer. Families and friends gather in celebration or hope. Giving is a reflection of our love and caring for each other and those less fortunate. May your thoughts turn to gratitude this holiday season and carry on throughout the next year.

  James A. Murphy III

  Gratitude, Memories, Caring

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• Our family holidays always include our animals. On Thanksgiving, we love to walk around our farm and visit with our rescued pigs, goats, horses, emus and many other rescued animals. We give them all special vegetables that day, and the whole family enjoys a vegetarian Thanksgiving dinner. We know that the animals are giving thanks that day, and we are also giving thanks for the joy they bring to our lives.

  Noah Wyle

  Thanksgiving, Horse, Animal

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• My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

  Johnny Vegas

  Home, Vacation, Two

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• So it may well be believed that when I found him taking a complete holiday, with a vast supply of books at command, he had the air of indulging in a literary debauch, if the term may be applied to so honorable an occupation.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Book, Air, Occupation

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1967). “Cicero”

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• During holiday parties I end up recycling a lot of my cocktail dresses and just wearing a layering piece, like a blazer and tights, with it.

  Lauren Conrad

  Party, Dresses, Tights

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• I love out-of-the-way, rugged places. For me, holidays are about the experiences, and the people, and the memories, rather than sitting on a nice beach getting tanned. I try to plant myself where I am and embrace what is there in front of me.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Beach, Memories, Nice

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• Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Halloween, Costumes, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

  Amy Grant

  Song, Jesus, Couple

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• Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast - I don't eat, I don't drink, I don't talk.

  Dick Gregory

  Calendars, Drink, Checks

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• A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

  Lee Haney

  Cancer, Heart, Fighting

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• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  Lee Haney

  Cheer, Cancer, Heart

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• soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

  Charles Bukowski

  Morning, Phones, Waiting

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• I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

  Rufus Sewell

  Style, Littles, Flight

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

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• I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

  Wilbur Smith

  Father, Pride, Age

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• If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

  Barbra Streisand

  Records, Listening To Music, Ifs

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

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• I don't think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There's roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot - not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city.

  Michael Symon

  Thanksgiving, Thinking, Cities

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• One of the best parts of Thanksgiving for me is re-watching some of the classic holiday blunders that have been depicted on television. I remember laughing uncontrollably on the set of 'That Girl' back in 1967 when we shot the episode, 'Thanksgiving Comes But Once A Year, Hopefully' during our second season.

  Marlo Thomas

  Girl, Years, Laughing

  "Wishing You A Happy, Blunder-Free Thanksgiving" by Marlo Thomas, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2013.

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