Inspirational Holiday Quotes & Sayings

Steve Dallas ... a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He's never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees. — Berkeley Breathed

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are. — David Letterman

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity. — Andrea Camilleri

Have a magnificent holiday! Celebrate as if holidays are a reflection of your dreams, desires, traditions, and values all wrapped in happiness and joy. — Debasish Mridha

In planetary terms, we're all downstream. — William McDonough

Let love, joy, hope and peace be the guiding lights during this holiday season. — Debasish Mridha

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind. — Lisa Alther

Find joy and gratitude in today,
make every day in life a holiday. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not going to relate to an athlete as a peer. — Lisa Guerrero

Sleep mothered them; and left the twilight sad. — Wilfred Owen

In the house of God there is never ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God's face gives joy that never fails. — Saint Augustine

A holiday is for kindness, compassion, love, and holiness; it is not for laziness or craziness. — Debasish Mridha

Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement. — Ryan Holiday

Thus the sons of earth now drink in
The fire of heaven without danger.
And it is our duty, poets, to stand
Bare-headed under the storms of God,
Grasping with our own hand
The Father's beam itself,
And to offer the gift of heaven,
Wrapped in song, to the people.
From "As On a Holiday" ("Wie Wenn am Feiertage") — Friedrich Holderlin

Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain. — Lucy Foley

I am the best in the world at what I do. — Chris Jericho

The current relationship between companies and the workforce is like marrying into a dysfunctional family. Only you don't get to escape when the holiday meal is over. — Bill Jensen

Some people, when they have a holiday, just want to go to salt coats, twenty-five miles along the coast from Glasgow. Some people don't even want to that. They are happy to stay at home or watch the birds and the ducks float by in the park. And some want to go to the moon. It's all about people's AMBITIONS. — Alex Ferguson

MOTHER TIME: We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them. — Hillary DePiano

The world was at her feet, and she didn't even know it. None of them did - the normal ones; the ones who didn't have to worry about the day to day, hour to hour, and minute to minute; the masses of people who woke up each and every day not fearing the hours ahead and the day that would follow; or those who didn't have to wonder if they'd be around to celebrate the next holiday.
How easily people took life for granted when it had so easily been given.
How I wished for such simplicity. — J.L. Berg

When Christmas doesn't fit your expectations of what the perfect holiday should be, think about how Joseph and Mary probably didn't think that manger was the perfect place for their child to be born. but look at what a perfect Christmas that turned out to be. — Joel Osteen

And then I wonder what it would be like if he really was falling for me, because Lincoln in real life is a million times more intense than Lincoln in letters ... and I'm seriously falling for him. — Katie McGarry

I long to look at my holiday season with eyes that see the Christ in Christmas. — Ann Marie Stewart

She dreams of him that has forgot her love;
You dote on her that cares not for your love.
'Tis pity love should be so contrary;
And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas! — William Shakespeare

Being is one thing; becoming aware of it is a point of arrival by an awakened consciousness and this involves a journey. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

If you can't find the spirit of the holidays in your heart, you'll never find it under a tree. — Michael Holbrook

I may plan to make Christ the center of Christmas, but when I wait until December to focus on celebrating His birthday, I become entangled in Christmas lights, holiday baking, and festive engagements, often wondering if I've experienced the illusive "true meaning" of Christmas. — Ann Marie Stewart

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God "richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment." He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us. — Rick Warren