Browsing Topic Best Holiday Quotes

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Every man regards his own life as the New Year’s Eve of time.

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

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we’re here for something else besides ourselves.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

Whenever you can’t think of something to be grateful for, remember your breath. With each breath you take, you can say, ‘I’m still here.’ Make each day a holiday of thankfulness -and give yourself the gift of gratitude!

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsuccessful holidays: the tendency not to understand who we are and what will satisfy us.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

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

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’.

The year end brings no greater pleasure then the opportunity to express to you season’s greetings and good wishes. May your holidays and new year be filled with joy.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

‘The Christmas Song,’ by Nat King Cole, is not only a masterful performance; to me it just sounds like the holidays. I’ve never sung it, because Nat’s version is so perfect. I gotta leave it alone.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas, just like the ones I used to know.

I don’t believe in western morality, i.e. don’t kill civilians or children, don’t destroy holy sites, don’t fight during holiday seasons, don’t bomb cemeteries, don’t shoot until they shoot first because it is immoral. The only way to fight a moral war is the Jewish way: Destroy their holy sites. Kill men, women and children (and cattle).

The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember… There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I’m nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

Guests stay where you’ve put them, and carry on doing whatever you suggested they do, until you suggest they stop and do something else. If you leave them drinking a cup of tea and looking through your holiday slides, they’re supposed to sit tight till you ask them to come and string beans in your kitchen.

Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

[Christmas] holidays are a heavy, heavy time. We make light of them with our red and green and our stockings and candy canes, but people think heavy thoughts over the holidays because that’s when you’re thinking about family. Are we close? Or are we not as close as other people?

I try to appreciate the simple things. I’ve just been camping with my son and I enjoyed that just as much if not more than a holiday in a posh hotel. I like making a cup of tea and bacon sarnie in the morning.

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

I try to get back for every holiday to see my parents. Love being home and with my family.

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They’re incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

Inventory discipline across the brands coupled with an outstanding holiday performance at Victoria’s Secret led to a 36 percent increase in fourth-quarter earnings per share at Limited Inc.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I’m talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I’m in a New York state of mind.

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

Americans are gluttons. We shop with forklifts. We have a holiday where we stuff food into other food. Our strippers wrestle in Jell-O, where other countries have to use mud.