Top 100 Holiday Quotes for Every Celebration

“My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty.” — A.J. Jacobs

“I used to think that finding the right one was about the man having a list of certain qualities.” — A.J. Jacobs

“My whole life has been a lie. I thought I was a strong, independent woman.” — A.J. Jacobs

“Tax cuts should be for life, not just for Christmas.” — Alexander Downer

“The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother’s hand.” — Amy Grant

“When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong.” — Andrew Buchan

“When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler.” — A.J. Hawk

“You don’t want your jewelry to make you look fat.” — Padma Lakshmi

“Christmas in L.A. is weird. There’s no snow.” — Ellie Goulding

“Online, there’s no time. It’s always Christmas.” — Nick Lowe

“So we’re considering doing a new Christmas album.” — Trey Parker

“My favorite traditional Christmas movie that I like to watch is All Quiet on the Western Front.” — Taylor Lautner

“I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve.” — Jonathan Kozol

“According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve.” — Grazia Deledda

“Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street.” — Ellen Tauscher

“It may be a cliche, but it’s true – the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable.” — Julie Burchill

“One Christmas build-up tradition, however, has totally bypassed me.” — Julie Burchill

“If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen.” — Michael Schumacher

“There’s never really been a real hood Christmas movie.” — Ice Cube

“I remember wishing there was snow in L.A.” — Ice Cube

“I’ve been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years.” — Russell Wilson

“Brits and Americans have hundreds of different phrases for the same thing.” — Shane Richie

“From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.” — Katharine Whitehorn

“The whole point of me doing a Christmas record and what I centered it around.” — Nick Lachey

“I save every Christmas card. I keep them all.” — Alvin Toffler

“I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star.” — Emma Goldman

“Well, the album ‘Intuition’ is out and just went platinum officially.” — Jamie Foxx

“I’m bad on Valentine’s Day, but even worse on Christmas.” — Jamie Foxx

“I love Halloween, trick or treating and decorating the house.” — Jessica Alba

“For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival.” — Cheryl Strayed

“I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck.” — Dar Williams

“Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving.” — Jon Stewart

“I’m sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time.” — Andy Dufresne

“There’s something about a Christmas sweater that will always make me laugh.” — Kristen Wiig

“Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.” — Renee Fleming

“I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.” — Frank Butler

“There’s been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.” — Jack Kingston

“I don’t know of too many double Christmas albums.” — Garth Brooks

“It can’t be overstated how wonderful it is not to have to audition any more.” — Ben Chaplin

“When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas.” — Taylor Swift

“The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ.” — Jon Stewart

“At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.” — Kevin Richardson

“One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March.” — Mo Rocca

“Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.” — Mo Rocca

“I love the excess of Christmas.” — Mo Rocca

“What I’m not saying is that all government spending is bad.” — Arthur Laffer

“My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas.” — Margot Kidder

“Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks’ Christmas vacation.” — Frank McCourt

“We never really had any kind of a Christmas.” — Frank McCourt

“I was at the vice president’s Christmas party.” — Bob Dole

“My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving.” — Katharine Hepburn

“We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won’t need to tell anybody it does.” — Dwight L. Moody

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” — Pope John Paul II

“To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything.” — Bernhard Langer

“We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.” — Joyce Meyer

“Easter is very important to me, it’s a second chance.” — Reba McEntire

“The first thing that stuck in the minds of the disciples was not the empty tomb.” — Josh McDowell

“I believe in one God, the first and great cause of goodness.” — Daniel Morgan

“The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus.” — Kenneth Scott Latourette

“Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God.” — E. Stanley Jones

“At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn’t think of anything else to give up for Lent.” — Ethel Merman

“Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.” — Josh McDowell

“I have always wanted a bunny and I’ll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.” — Amy Sedaris

“To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein.” — William Tyndale

“What do you mean you don’t believe in homosexuality? It’s not like the Easter Bunny.” — Lea DeLaria

“Most people outside of America won’t get it. It’s the Easter bunny.” — Tina Fey

“A strangely reflective, even melancholy day.” — Alec Guinness

“Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync.” — Marvin Olasky

“I cooked at the White House for Easter, last year.” — Jacques Pepin

“Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world?” — William Weld

“We were taking collections for people with AIDS in New York around Easter.” — Chita Rivera

“And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet.” — Leonard Bernstein

“I’m Jewish, so I don’t know much about Easter eggs.” — Scarlett Johansson

“Easter is reflecting upon suffering for one thing.” — Philip Yancey

“I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way.” — Jon Stewart

“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received.” — Henry Van Dyke

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare.” — Erma Bombeck

“To give thanks in solitude is enough.” — Victor Hugo

“There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.” — O. Henry

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.” — Phyllis Diller

“If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again.” — Thomas Sowell

“Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.” — Henry Ward Beecher

“If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.” — Ina Garten

“A lot of Thanksgiving days have been ruined by not carving the turkey in the kitchen.” — Kin Hubbard

“My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches.” — Ted Allen

“Over the Thanksgiving holiday I took time to reflect on what is most important to me.” — Kurt Busch

“It’s so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early – is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?” — David Letterman

“Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in ‘Waiting for Guffman.'” — Ted Allen

“As much as I love crisp, clean whites, there’s always a time for rich but balanced Chardonnays.” — Eric Asimov

“Thanksgiving is a season that is very much in accord with the themes and teachings of Jesus Christ.” — Jon Stewart

“I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It’s the only holiday I insist on making myself.” — Ina Garten

“As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner.” — Jennifer Granholm

“My favorite meal is turkey and mashed potatoes.” — Charlie Brown

“I never drank except a couple sips of wine at Thanksgiving.” — Bryan Cranston

“The craft Emmys are kind of the kids’ table at Thanksgiving.” — Emmy Rossum

“I’ve spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band.” — Taylor Swift

“Thanksgiving is nothing but a toast to genocide.” — Ward Churchill

“Something I didn’t even know was on my bucket list has been achieved.” — Marlo Thomas

“I think I’m going to give my baby her first food on Thanksgiving.” — Mila Kunis

“In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies.” — Bob McNair

“I have nothing against turkey. We eat turkey for Thanksgiving in my house.” — Marc Forgione