Kenneth Grahame Quotes

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

Kenneth Grahame

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• No one can complain about earning good money, but for me, it's being able to help my family out, put my brother and sister through school, take my family on holiday. That's where I get the biggest buzz, not buying a pair of £500 shoes.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Good
  • Family
  • School

• I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Like
  • Holiday
  • Too Much

• We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

  

  Ian Axel
  • Time
  • Why
  • Song

• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Kind
  • Day

• If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Know
  • Me

• I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It's the best!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Family
  • Friends

• During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Up
  • Christian
  • Jesus

• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • God
  • Universe
  • Imagination

• A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Children crave routine and find listening to the same stories over and over again soothing. If you've grown weary of the holiday books you've read your kid 7,883 times, try adding 'dude' to the end of every line of dialogue.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Children
  • Listening
  • End

• My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Different
  • Day
  • Crazy

• When I became a mother of two, I decided to work with brands that remind me of family because they're my No. 1 priority. Now I'm partnering with Puffs to encourage people to get out and not hibernate inside. People should enjoy the holiday season, and if you do have a runny nose or the sniffles, Puffs is there to take care of your symptoms.

  

  Vanessa Lachey
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Life
  • Work
  • Dad

• I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Love

• I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do.

  

  Abbey Lincoln
  • Myself
  • Loved
  • Holiday

• April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Paris
  • Holiday
  • Trees

• When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Done
  • Hope

• I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Life
  • Family
  • Change

• One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important, and that to take a holiday would bring all kinds of disaster. If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Work
  • Important
  • Holiday

• The theme of 'A Christmas Story' is that you can count on Christmas - that everybody has a Christmas story. Everybody has that time in the holiday season that they remember.

  

  Marc Platt
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Christmas

• Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

  

  Wangari Maathai
  • Time
  • God
  • Doubt

• I'll get home from work on Friday night and take out some beans and soak them. The next morning, I'll put them in a pot for soup, then just keep chopping, chopping, chopping - carrots and celery and cabbage - and in two or three hours, you have this wonderful, mellow soup that fills up the whole house with its aroma.

  

  Lidia Bastianich
  • Up
  • Work
  • Home

• When we are in partnership and have stopped clutching each other's throats, when we have stopped enslaving each other, we will stand together, hands clasped, and be friends. We will be comrades, we will be brothers, and we will begin the march to the grandest civilization the human race has ever known.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Friends
  • Hands
  • Civilization

• After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

  

  Kenneth Grahame
  • Holiday