Holiday Quotes - Page 8

• The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life. . . . The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds - how many human aspirations are realised in their free, holiday-lives - and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

  John Burroughs

  Beautiful, Song, Nature

  John Burroughs (1904). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Birds and poets, with other papers”

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• If I die today, it'd be a holiday

  Lil Wayne

  Rap, Today, Dies

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• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  Yip Harburg

  Paris, Tree, Tables

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• So when it came to making the movie I guess I had a really good sense innately of what it was that makes Halloween really great. In that it is a holiday for everybody now. When I was a kid I felt like it was mostly for kids, maybe that's just the way it always is when you're a kid, but I think now more than ever it's for grown ups too. When I was a kid I don't think there were quite as many sexy adult costumes and we definitely didn't have all these Spirit Halloween stores that pop up every October.

  Michael Dougherty

  Sexy, Halloween, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• My husband is always telling me: 'We're on holiday - we don't need to have an itinerary!' But I always want to see as much as I can. Sometimes, I come back from holiday needing a holiday.

  Ashley Jensen

  Husband, Needs, Want

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• I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.

  Gary Barlow

  Awful, Good Times, Periods

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• Everybody was waiting for Chelsea not to win every game and one day when we lose there will be a holiday in the country. But we are ready for that.

  Jose Mourinho

  Soccer, Country, Winning

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• I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday. I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.

  Andre Dirrell

  Halloween, Winter, Ghouls

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• I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.

  Wyclef Jean

  Marvin

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

  Ian Baker-Finch

  Golf, Driving, Unbelievable

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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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• Thanksgiving is not just a warm, cozy holiday. It's not merely a time of recreation and relaxation and watching football all day. As we give thanks, we need to put our mind, soul and spirit into our thanks and into our praise.

  Tony Evans

  Football, Giving, Soul

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

  Matsuo Basho

  Winter, Years, Floating

  Matsuo Basho, “Year’s End,”

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• You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

  Al Murray

  Kids, Self, Tin

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I've been working with Operation Smile for a number of years, and $240 changes and saves, in many cases, saves a child's life. But one of the things I'm super excited about is my partnership with Boston Market this holiday season and we've partnered up not only to help everybody out during the holidays because we know how crazy it gets.

  Kate Walsh

  Children, Crazy, Boston

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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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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• 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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• Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful.

  William Rivers Pitt

  Shopping, Two, People

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• The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?

  Christina Applegate

  Animal, People, Trying

  "Fur: Get Me Not!". The PETA Interview, www.peta.org.

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• I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

  David O. Selznick

  Christmas, Depressing, Sunday

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• But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

  Andre Gide

  New Year, Years, Old Year

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• The Christmas season is also that time of year when the business world implores us to consider the material as more important than the spiritual, all in the spirit of 'the holidays.' So we celebrate the arrival on Christmas Day of iPods and DVDs... Then again, maybe this is precisely the kind of seasonal silliness that causes the Christian faithful to shut out the noise and contemplate the real nativity scene and its eternal promise.

  L. Brent Bozell, Jr.

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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