Holidays Quotes

Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might all be reunited again. That’s the real sparkle in Christmas.

~ Toni Sorenson

Keeping Christ in Christmas is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

If I was going to spend the next day in jail for obstruction of justice, I'd better get a good nights sleep.

~ Kathi Daley

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!

~ Dave Barry

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot to remain merry in the face of torment and adversity. I promised to keep that in mind.

~ David Sedaris

Christmas it seems to me is a necessary festival; we require a season when we can regret all the flaws in our human relationships: it is the feast of failure, sad but consoling.

~ Graham Greene

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.

~ Sylvia Plath

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

~ Alan Bradley

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

~ Tess Gerritsen

When purchasing gifts becomes the focal point of the season, we lose focus on what's truly important.

~ Joshua Fields Millburn

It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

~ Julieanne O'connor

Christmas and the others can end up making you sad, because you know you should be happy.

~ Ava Dellaira

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

~ Michael Holbrook

Even if one is doing nothing more than eating Chinese food with one's Muslim and Jewish friends (don't order the pork lo mein), being together on the longest nights of the year, as the cold sets into the ground and makes it crunch, the warmth inside is infectious and transcendent.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Don’t spoil Christmas Day by anticipating how it will be. Let is unfold as it does, and be grateful for whatever comes.

~ Toni Sorenson

Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas.

~ Toni Sorenson

Christmas is a blanket that warms our cold hearts.

~ Toni Sorenson

Christmas is not a date on a calendar. It’s more than a state of mind. It’s a condition of the heart.

~ Toni Sorenson

The month of December isn’t magical because it sparkles. It’s magical because it changes people’s hearts … at least momentarily.

~ Toni Sorenson

People think the only time the earth is renewed is in spring. I find it’s renewed around Christmastime when hard, old hearts are softened. When children’s laughter drowns out anguish. When magic transforms the dull into something beautiful and sparkly. I find that Christmas time changes me … from the inside out, and even for a moment fills me with youth and hope again.

~ Toni Sorenson

If you hate what you get for Christmas, try to focus on the person who gave the gift to you, not what came in the box.

~ Toni Sorenson

Christmas is about change. It’s a time we open our hearts before we open our presents.

~ Toni Sorenson

I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.

~ Sara Sheridan

This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

~ Johna Passaro

Thanksgiving is the holiday that encompasses all others. All of them, from Martin Luther King Day to Arbor Day to Christmas to Valentine's Day, are in one way or another about being thankful.

~ Jonathan Safran Foer

You know if the U.S. Government wanted to boost the economy there's a simple solution make Black Friday the refund date for your state and federal taxes

~ Stanley Victor Paskavich

The other houses in the neighborhood had Christmas lights up and trees visible in their windows, but not Shae's. She and I were the only ones who didn't care anymore, and I liked that about her.

~ Teresa Lo

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

~ Josh Alan Friedman

THE HOLIDAYS ARE RUINED!This book is one page long and just contains that one sentence.

~ Amy Poehler

It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Since joining the National Park Service fourteen years ago, Anna had worked every Fourth of July. ... Winding her way through the masses, trying not to get her fragile frame jostled, she realized she preferred it that way. Working on holidays, one wasn't required to have fun. There was no pressure, no disappointments. And she usually had a wonderful time.

~ Nevada Barr

Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to do. Nothing else conveys that sense of place that can inspire a blissful contentment.

~ Andrew Rayner

Each February/March the entire country takes a ski week. The schools shut down, parents take off work, dogs go to the in-laws, and Finland's middle and upper classes go on holiday. But not all at once. They can't have the entire country gandala-ing up to Lapland at one time (AVALANCHES!). So the country takes turns. The best region goes first: Southern Finland. Then the second best: Central Finland. Then the reindeer herders and forest people take a week off from unemployment and go last: Northern Finland.

~ Phil Schwarzmann

I do love the beginning of the summer hols,' said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.''They go so nice and slowly at first,' said Anne, his little sister. 'Then they start to gallop.

~ Enid Blyton

It was about having a box in the attic or basement or attic or garage, something we could return to over and over again, something that said, this is us, this is where we were last year, and this is where we'll stay, and this is where we'll pile on the memories, over and over again, until there are so many memories that it's blinding, the brightness of family, the way love and nurturing is like a color you can't name because it's so new.

~ Carrie Brownstein

No holidays, no country.

~ Toba Beta

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

~ Lara Flynn Boyle

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

~ Ellen Degeneres

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

~ Blake Lively

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

~ Henny Youngman