Holiday Meal Sayings

#1. Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

Kelli O'Hara

#2. Where, incidentally, a holiday meal was not being served. My mother worked as a waitress at Palmer's Supper

Larry Watson

#3. 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

#4. It's so simple to create a delicious holiday meal without animal cruelty. I promise no one will miss the turkey!

Alicia Silverstone

#5. Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012!

Stella Atrium

#6. They're constrained by a shortage of people who excel at choosing the right novel ideas. The

Adam M. Grant

#7. The real gift of today is somehow finding the me I knew ought to exist but has not.

Gary M. Douglas

#8. Printings, he told Pascal Covici, his editor at The Viking Press, that he was immensely pleased

John Steinbeck

#9. Sitting aimlessly in bedrooms- often on the bed itself- is another characteristic feature of the English holidays. The meal was over and it was only twenty five past seven. 'The evening stretches before us,' Viola said gloomily.

Barbara Pym

#10. Thanksgiving is America's favorite holiday because it's a time when we put aside our cares, much as the struggling Pilgrims did nearly four centuries ago, and eat a gut-busting meal without worrying about the 'out years.'

David Ignatius

#11. Sometimes fear and confusion can blunt your perceptions. You become so driven to make sense of things, to identify the dangers lurking around the next corner, that you neglect to see the wonders all around you.

Patrick Jennings

#12. Little Voice is a story where every reader, young or old, can feel inspired by its positive, inspiring and motivating message.

Amanda Bernardo

#13. The papers reveal that in several key abortion cases, justices were keenly interested in the perceived public reaction to their rulings - indicating that courts can be influenced by public sentiment.

Lee Greenwood

#14. If you just think about the difficulty you'll never get anywhere.

Brian Lindstrom

#15. What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

Andy Stanley

#16. Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

R.C. Sproul

#17. Church is a school for sinners, not a club of saints.

Lillian Daniel

#18. Magic always wants to be something different from what it already is. Now that made sense to me. It reminded me of myself.

Danielle Paige

#19. The holiday specifies that everyone recline during the meal. It is a symbolic gesture showing that Jews can eat with leisure because they have been freed from bondage.

Karl Katz

#20. Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday ... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.

Ayn Rand

#21. Truly it is allowed us to weep: by weeping we disperse our wrath; and tears go through the heart, even like a stream.
[Lat., Flere licet certe: flendo diffundimus iram:
Perque sinum lacrimae, fluminis instar enim.]

Ovid

#22. You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Jandy Nelson