Home For The Holidays Quotes

• For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

  William Jewett Tucker

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

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

  Patrick O'Brian

  Fall, Home, Holiday

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• Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

  Bob Hope

  Home, Holiday, May

  Bob Hope (2004). “Bob Hope”, Hyperion

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• He had been to see Mrs. Erlich just before starting home for the holidays, and found her making German Christmas cakes. She took him into the kitchen and explained the almost holy traditions that governed this complicated cookery. Her excitement and seriousness as she beat and stirred were very pretty, Claude thought. She told off on her fingers the many ingredients, but he believed there were things she did not name: the fragrance of old friendships, the glow of early memories, belief in wonder-working rhymes and songs.

  Willa Cather

  Christmas, Song, Memories

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.687, Simon and Schuster

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• My parents found tradition and ritual very important, because they were both brought up that way and found comfort in it. They thought it was important for children to be kept on a schedule. You went home for the holidays, you went to mass on Sunday - no ifs, ands, or buts. That was ingrained in me from a very young age, and I think that's informed who I am in so many aspects of my life. I crave stability and a schedule and the security that comes along with it.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Children, Holiday, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Home, Holiday, College

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