Cornerstones

Quotations, Various

Cornerstones highlights thought-provoking quotes from notable folks.

What we're really talking about is a wonderful day ... when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?
Erma Bombeck

A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun.
Louisa May Alcott

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each other's burdens, easing each other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of the holidays.
W.C. Jones

Holidays -- any holiday -- are such a great opportunity to focus on bringing the family together.
Lidia Bastianich

I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending.
Fred Rogers

Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Dave Barry

The holiday season is a perfect time to reflect on our blessings and seek out ways to make life better for those around us.
Anonymous

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
John B. Priestley

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
Andy Rooney

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
Colossians 2:16-17 (KJV)

The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May your eyeliner be even and your holidays be bright.
Mary Kay

I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays.
Amy Adams

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