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Holiday Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
- It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. To…
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and…
More Holiday Quotes
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to… — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. — Amy Adams
- For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays. — Scott Adams
- Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by… — Dave Barry
- Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. — Simone de Beauvoir
- I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so… — Tony Bennett
- What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but… — Lewis Black
- The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year.… — Lewis Black
- Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. — Erma Bombeck
- It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity -… — Alain de Botton