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Quotes About Holiday

During the holiday season, try substituting a cranberry and club soda spritzer, or water with lemon or lime instead of an alcoholic beverage. You'll be saving calories, and reducing your cancer risk.
~ Margaret Cuomo
During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort timeshares. That was an effective conversational nonstarter, until I met someone that actually did sell resort timeshares.
~ Dean Karnazes
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
Our family's special holiday tradition is going over to my grandparent's house on Christmas morning. My grandma cooks a big breakfast, and I love hearing her tell old funny stories.
~ Caroline Sunshine
Nic loves Elf's odd requests, each one is like a holiday for him...and he's not a Mennonite, which is important--in a man-- for Elf. Mennonite men have wasted too much of her time already, trying to harvest her soul and shackle her to shame.
~ Miriam Toews
On the first day of his holiday Laurence Manders woke to hear his grandmother's voice below. 'I'll have a large wholemeal. I've got my grandson stopping for a week, who's on the BBC. That's my daughter's boy, Lady Manders. He won't eat white bread, one of his fads.' Laurence shouted from the window, 'Grandmother, I adore white bread and I have no fads.
~ Muriel Spark
Without shared experiences, a heterogeneous society will have a much more difficult time addressing social problems. People may even find it hard to understand one another. Common experiences, emphatically including the common experiences made possible by social media, provide a form of social glue. A national holiday is a shared experience. So is a major sports event (the Olympics or the World Cup), or a movie that transcends individual and group differences (Star Wars is a candidate). So
~ Cass R. Sunstein
Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.
~ Charlaine Harris
I'm not a big fan of Christmas, and I think there are a lot of people who feel a bit melancholy at the holiday.
~ Michael Ball
It's important for everyone's mental health they go home at Christmas. I don't want to tell any player they can't.
~ Emma Hayes
I was in 'Christmas with the Crawfords' with Joey Arias. I did that for six years, so I have a holiday show mentality a little bit.
~ Chris March
For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.
~ Mikhail Kalashnikov
I have an art-school background, not a fashion background where it's like, 'Oh, we're going on holiday to Miami.'
~ Giles Deacon
Shopmas now begins on Thanksgiving Day. Apparently, escaping the families you cannot stand to spend another minute with on Thanksgiving Day to go buy them gifts is how some Americans show their affection for one another. Weird.
~ Barry Ritholtz
This was a holiday and killing Grentz was preferable to skiing. The
~ Thomas Harris
Is it the Fourth?
~ Thomas Jefferson
She drove like one of the damned on holiday.
~ Thomas Pynchon
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
~ Karl Pilkington
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
~ Peter Kreeft
You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
~ Bill Gates
I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.
~ Freema Agyeman
I like turkey with all the trimmings, bread sauce, cranberry sauce.
~ Dave Myers
I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.
~ Marc Forgione