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1. I love Thanksgiving because it is a holiday centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
- Marcus Samuelsson
2. Even before Christmas has said Hello, it’s saying ‘Buy Buy’.
- Robert Paul
3. Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
- Deborah Kerr
4. If you find you are stressed out during the week, then it is even more important that you focus on what you want to do for the weekend, don’t bring work home.
- Kate Summers
5. That is one good thing about this world… there are always sure to be more springs.
- L. M. Montgomery
6. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
- John Steinbeck
7. After graduating, the possibilities are infinite, but they are a lot harder to obtain and you don’t always end up where you thought you would be.
- Jenny Blake
8. Everything I know I learned after I was 30.
- Georges Clemenceau
9. Coexistence: what the farmer does with the turkey — until Thanksgiving.
- Mike Connolly
10. You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.
- Mahatma Gandhi
11. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.
- H.G. Wells
12. I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.
- Robert Brault
13. The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend’s birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people’s birthdays.
- Julianna Margulies
14. I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.
- Jane Austen
15. The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?
- Benjamin Franklin
16. It’s not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
17. Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
- Dorothy Canfield Fisher
18. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’
- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
19. The problem with winter sports is that–follow me closely here–they generally take place in winter.
- Dave Barry
20. One can never have enough socks. Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn’t get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books.
- Professor Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Sorce
21. Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
- Wendy Wasserstein
22. I hope you celebrate your birthday every year no matter your age, for your life truly is a gift.
- Anthea Gillian Tripp
23. At graduation, you get to wear a cap and gown, but it’s a good idea to also wear something underneath it.
- Greg Tamblyn
24. Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.
- Victor Borge
25. Our flag does not fly because the wind moves it… it flies with the last breath of each soldier who died protecting it.
- Unknown
26. If you find yourself waiting for the weekend to approach, then it means that you are not happy for at least five days a week.
- Rakshit Shetty
27. Age is a relative term. All my relatives keep reminding me how old I am.
- Melanie White
28. It takes a long time to become young.
- Pablo Picasso
29. The more we express thanks, the more gratitude we feel. The more gratitude we feel, the more we express thanks. It’s circular, and it leads to a happier life.
- Steve Goodier
30. You make me feel so young, you make me feel so Spring has sprung.
- Frank Sinatra, You Make Me Feel So Young
31. Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
- Booth Tarkington
32. A Christmas shopper’s complaint is one of long-standing.
- Unknown
33. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Dalai Lama
34. Appreciation can change a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
- Margaret Cousins
35. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
- Carl Reiner
36. Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
- Stanley Horowitz
37. A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
- Amit Kalantri
38. No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
- English Proverb
39. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
40. Oh no. Don’t smile. You’ll kill me. I stop breathing when you smile.
- Tessa Dare
41. A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love.
- Abhishek Bachchan
42. The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
43. Rather than see aging as a reason to contract, we should view it as an opportunity to expand.
- Srinivas Rao
44. Be in the habit of getting up bright and early on the weekends. Why waste such precious time in bed?
- Marilyn Vos Savant
45. Oh, Paddy, dear, an’ did ye hear the news that’s goin’ round? The shamrock is forbid by law to grow on Irish ground! No more St. Patrick’s Day we’ll keep, his colour can’t be seen, For there’s a cruel law agin’ the Wearin’ o’ the green.
- Anonymous
46. As a lot of us have found out, graduation only means that you are ready to keep learning, to keep your skills advanced and growing because you never know when you will find yourself out on the street.
- Byron Pulsifer
47. My Thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.
- Henry David Thoreau
48. Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving, and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.
- Elie Wiesel
49. Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.
- Michel de Montaigne
50. The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.
- Jane Hirshfield, The Heat of Autumn
51. I like to have one night on the weekend where I can just cuddle up at my house.
- Eliza Dushku
52. If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?
- Lily Tomlin
53. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
- William Shakespeare
54. Graduation is an important day. It is a significant achievement.
- Stephanie Ruhle
55. I know I am but summer to your heart, and not the full four seasons of the year.
- Edna St. Vincent Mallay
56. In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.
- John Steinbeck
57. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
58. Ireland is the only place in the world where procrastination takes on a sense of urgency.
- Dave Allen
59. Turkey for the girls and Turkey for the boys. My favorite kind of pants are corduroys. Gobble gobble goo and Gobble gobble gickel. I wish turkey only cost a nickel. Oh I love turkey on Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving everybody!
- Adam Sandler, The Thanksgiving Song
60. Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.
- Doug Larson
61. May St. Patrick guard you wherever you go, and guide you in whatever you do and may his loving protection be a blessing to you always.
- Irish Blessing
62. Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.
- Novala Takemoto
63. Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
- Yoko Ono
64. The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.
- Harriet Ann Jacobs
65. I am always happy to meet my friend, and my friend is my weekend.
- Debasish Mridha
66. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It’s all about the memories.
- Buddy Valastro
67. If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
- W. Clement Stone
68. Adults can take a simple holiday for Children and screw it up. What began as a presentation of simple gifts to delight and surprise children around the Christmas tree has culminated in a woman unwrapping six shrimp forks from her dog, who drew her name.
- Erma Bombeck
69. Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.
- Kahlil Gibran
70. I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
- Psalm 4:8 NIV
71. We should make sure each year of our lives are more interesting than the one before.
- Srinivas Rao
72. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! There’ll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, and caroling out in the snow.
- Andy Williams, It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The
73. As you graduate, as you deal with your excitement and your doubts today, I urge you to try and create the world you want to live in.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
74. The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match, each one of you is a fuse.
- Ed Koch
75. When you’re young, you should live out every weekend.
- Jonathan Brandis
76. Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight, What more is there to say than goodnight? We’ve had a lot of fun and it’s time to toodle-oo. Au revoir, auf wiendersehn and Inka, dinks doo. Goodnight, goodnight, goodnight.
- Jimmy Durante
77. Love is the name of an irrepressible moment formed inside one complete pulsation of a heart.
- Munia Khan
78. Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life.
- Gloria Davidson
79. Sometimes the weekend gets hijacked by work, but as my mother would say, this is the right problem.
- Julian Fellowes
80. A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.
- E.E. Cummings
81. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.
- Markus Zuzak
82. I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
83. Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
- Minor Myers Jr.
84. We should celebrate every year that we made it through and every year that we’re happier and healthier.
- Ellen DeGeneres
85. Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated.
- Garry Trudeau
86. People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
- Anton Chekov
87. They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.
- Italian Proverb
88. On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
- Dan Lipinski
89. A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.
- Robert Orben
90. I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
- Bruce Eric Kaplan
91. It is spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
92. Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
- C.S. Lewis
93. Now you have graduated and “commenced,” ending the last segment of your previous adventure, and now you begin your next adventure.
- Tom Swanson
94. Celebrate your birthday with the greatest joy for the priceless gift of life, be filled with joy that brings renewed strength.
- Wayne Chirisa
95. And though I ebb in worth, I’ll flow in thanks.
- John Taylor
96. Fear can keep us up all night long but faith makes one fine pillow.
- Philip Gulley
97. A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other…Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever.
- Dave Matthews Band
98. That diploma you hold in your hands today is really just your learner’s permit for the rest of the drive through life. Remember, you don’t have to be smarter than the next person. All you have to do is be willing to work harder than the next person.
- Jimmy Iovine
99. Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
- Kin Hubbard
100. Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
101. We don’t grow old. When we cease to grow, we become old.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
102. Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer… Who’d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?
- Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
103. Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
- Lenore Hershey
104. Every year, Christmas gets longer and longer, and you don’t care, do you? Every year, you just take more of the calendar for yourself. How long does it take you people to shop? It’s beyond belief! It’s insane! When I was a kid, Halloween was Halloween, and Santa wasn’t poking his ass into it!
- Lewis Black
105. After years of daily effort and sleepless nights cramming for exams and finishing term papers, the day finally comes when you put on your caps and gowns to stand in line to receive the university diploma certifying that the time has come for you to make your entry into the real world.
- Maria C. Siccardi, A Graduation Gift
106. As I have discovered, what you feed your mind in the day will affect your quality of sleep at night.
- Yvonne Haughton, Good Night Insomnia
107. Laughing and sleeping are the two best cures in the world. They’re even more effective during weekends.
- Anonymous
108. You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.
- Pablo Neruda
109. Graduates, today your formal education begins! Here’s your first lesson. Find a wise mentor.
- Rick Rigsby, Lessons From A Third Grade Dropout
110. When it comes to men who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
- Randy Pausch
111. ‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’…’It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…’
- Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
112. No graduation speaker will ever tell you that the future is anything but uncertain. It never is. But graduations need not only be obsessed with looking ahead; a graduation can be a day on which we turn back and trace our steps to see how we ended up where we are.
- Taylor Mali
113. Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
- Jim Carrey
114. How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?
- Satchel Paige
115. Having a birthday is like reaching a higher peak on a mountain. Pause to admire the view; reflect on how far you have come.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
116. Birthdays are happy as a child, defeatist with age and joyful again at surviving another year.
- Stewart Stafford
117. Oldtimers, weekends, and airplane landings are alike. If you can walk away from them, they’re successful.
- Casey Stengel
118. A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
119. An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie
120. It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.
- Lou Rawls, Spring Again
121. The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage.
- Thucydides
122. Just remember, once you’re over the hill, you begin to pick up speed.
- Charles Schulz
123. Thanksgiving is so called because we are all so thankful that it only comes once a year.
- P. J. O’Rourke
124. I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don’t have to respect anybody.
- George Burns
125. Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter what befalls us in life, we can take the charred remnants and we can reconstruct a life unimaginably richer than that from which the shards and pieces fell.
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
126. All gave some, some gave all.
- Billy Ray Cyrus, Some Gave All
127. The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
128. It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
- Edmund Hillary
129. Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
130. Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, everything will get better and sun will shine brighter than ever.
- Ernest Hemingway
131. Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melody Beattie
132. We will not tire, we will not falter, we will not fail.
- George W. Bush
133. At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.
- E.B. White
134. A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
- John B. Priestly
135. Celebrate your journey of life.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
136. Unless it’s an emergency, don’t bother me after 6:00 p.m. and on weekends.
- Merv Griffin
137. I don’t remember at all what was said at my college graduation, and I think that’s the case for many people.
- Stephanie Ruhle
138. Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What’s in that pipe that he’s smoking?
- Arlo Guthrie
139. It’s more than a diploma. It’s more than graduation. It’s knowledge.
- Cardi B
140. To me old age is 15 years older than I am.
- Bernard M. Baruch
141. A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
- Unknown
142. Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it’s even begun
- Catherine McCormack
143. If you’re Irish, it doesn’t matter where you are – you’ll find family.
- Victoria Smurfit
144. If you see a sign that says ‘Peep Show’, that doesn’t mean they’re letting you look at presents before Christmas.
- Father Christmas in Elf
145. If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken.
- Parineeti Chopra
146. Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
- Sydney J. Harris
147. Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year’s gifts.
- Unknown
148. Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
149. The older you get the better you get, unless you are a banana.
- Betty White
150. A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.
- R. C. Ferguson
151. Fridays are the hardest in some ways: you’re so close to freedom.
- Lauren Oliver
152. You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‘See if you can blow this out.’
- Jerry Seinfeld
153. There is a good reason they call these ceremonies ‘commencement exercises.’ Graduation is not the end; it’s the beginning.
- Orrin Hatch
154. Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.
- Poppy Z. Brite
155. Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.
- John Boswell
156. Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder
157. In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans’ organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
158. Take the time to do what you love to do this weekend.
- Catherine Pulsifer
159. I wish for you a good night, a good sleep, and when you awake with energy and passion you will abound.
- Kate Summers
160. How can you give Kris Kringle a parking ticket on Christmas Eve? What’s next, rabies shots for the Easter Bunny?
- Santa Claus in Home Alone
161. Education is something we have to keep pursuing day after day.
- Premier Brian Gallant
162. Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.
- Thomas de Quincey
163. The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
- Samuel Johnson
164. Birthdays mean going through another year of one’s life. It means growing another year older. For me, human birth is the purpose of Gods realization. A birthday simply means another year to complete that goal that we were sent to achieve.
- Mr. Benjamin
165. Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
- Ausonius
166. Give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
- Brian Tracy
167. No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
- Sheryl Crow
168. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
- T.S. Eliot
169. Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a mining town, but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.
- John Burnside
170. Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside me.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
171. Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.
- Steve Buyer
172. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you’ll make a difference.
- Arie Pencovici
173. The weekend is usually seen as a time for relaxation, or a time to do what you wanted to do through the week but couldn’t, or a time to catch up on needed sleep, or a time to visit with family and friends.
- Byron Pulsifer
174. Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
- Ellis Peters
175. A milestone birthday usually means taking the time to consider your life, your goals and what you have accomplished or not accomplished in your life up to this point.
- Jenny Mays
176. The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
177. I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature’s rebirth?
- Edward Giobbi
178. A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.
- Teddy Roosevelt
179. If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.
- Frank A. Clark
180. You are so much sunshine in every square inch.
- Walt Whitman
181. And whether it’s a moment of graduation or some time of transition in one’s life, there’s this sense of being unmoored – what used to be isn’t any longer.
- Pema Ch?dr?n
182. Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
183. I wish for you a good night, a good sleep, and when you awake with energy and passion you will abound.
- Kate Summers
184. I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.
- Millard Kaufman
185. The noblest question in the world is: What good may I do in it?
- Benjamin Franklin
186. Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
- William Shakespeare
187. Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
- Yoko Ono
188. Life is full of new beginnings, and a new day tomorrow brings, sleep well.
- Catherine Pulsifer
189. The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend.
- Chuck Palahniuk
190. Irish history stretches back into the dark days of the Celts, yet there is a light, laughter and a sense of laissez-faire in the Irish men and women of today.
- Richard Benson
191. From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
- Katharine Whitehorn, Roundabout
192. If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
193. I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
- Michael Moore
194. Today is the oldest you have been, and the youngest you will ever be.
- Nicky Gumbel
195. Remember God’s bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!
- Henry Ward Beecher
196. I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
- Dodie Smith
197. A birthday is the anniversary of your birth. It’s the time most of us reflect over the past year and what we hope for in the coming year.
- Claudia T. Hudson
198. Both teams played hard. God bless and goodnight.
- Rasheed Wallace
199. Some of the best memories are made in flip-flops.
- Kellie Elmore
200. The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
- Henry Van Dyke
201. Cooking well doesn’t mean cooking fancy.
- Julia Child
202. We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that.
- Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass
203. Goodnight! And sweetest dreams be thine through all their shining way, till darkness goes, and bird and rose with rapture greet the day.
- Proctor
204. The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
205. Nothing in the world is more expensive than a woman who’s free for the weekend.
- Anonymous
206. Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.
- E. P. Powell
207. It’s about how we treat our veterans every single day of the year. It’s about making sure they have the care they need and the benefits that they’ve earned when they come home. It’s about serving all of you as well as you’ve served the United States of America.
- Barack Obama
208. The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
- Gertrude Wister
209. Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
210. I’m not just over the hill, I’m down in the holler.
- Jewel Seale
211. Music always sounds better on Friday.
- Lou Brutus
212. Birthdays are among the most awaited day for children since it evokes fun and games that they can enjoy with their family and friends.
- Hal Jordan
213. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
- Robert Frost
214. 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
215. The fire is winter’s fruit.
- Arabian Proverb
216. Thanksgiving is one of my favorite days of the year because it reminds us to give thanks and to count our blessings. Suddenly, so many things become so little when we realize how blessed and lucky we are.
- Joyce Giraud
217. Real ballplayers pass the stuffing by rolling it up in a ball and batting it across the table with a turkey leg.
- Tom Swyers
218. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
- Margaret Atwood
219. The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.
- Josiyah Martin
220. To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.
- Woodrow Wilson
221. I wasn’t under any delusion that a single message would change their world, but I was determined to prepare something that would contribute to their lives beyond graduation day, something that would help them to choose a life that matters.
- Dennis Rainey
222. Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
- Edgar Guest
223. But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.
- Mary Balogh
224. Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.
- Truman Capote
225. Graduation is a time to nod at the past and smile at the future, and we’d better smile at it because it’s quite a bit bigger than us.
- Noah MacDonald
226. He who thanks but with the lips Thanks but in part; The full, the true Thanksgiving Comes from the heart.
- J. A. Shedd
227. The turkey. The sweet potatoes. The stuffing. The pumpkin pie. Is there anything else we all can agree so vehemently about?
- Nora Ephron
228. I haven’t taken my Christmas lights down. They look so nice on the pumpkin.
- Winston Spear
229. Good night—may you fall asleep in the arms of a dream, so beautiful, you’ll cry when you awake.
- Michael Faudet
230. Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.
- Anita Krizzan
231. Have you ever considered that your birthday is truly a day of celebration? A day to recognize the special gift we all received on the day you were born; the gift of you.
- Robert Rivers
232. No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
- Hal Borland
233. Thanksgiving was nothing more than a pilgrim-created obstacle in the way of Christmas; a dead bird in the street that forced a brief detour.
- Augusten Burroughs, You Better Not Cry: Stories fo
234. Graduation day is not a victory to celebrate! But a day to start again another beginning!
- Mark Alonzo
235. When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
- Jess C. Scott
236. We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
- Lauren Hutton
237. Good night, slept tight, awake full of joy at the morning light.
- Theodore Higgingsworth
238. Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.
- Humbert Wolfe
239. Everybody’s working for the weekend, everybody wants a new romance.
- Loverboy, Working For The Weekend
240. Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.
- Cora Harvey Armstrong
241. To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
- Henri Frederic Amiel
242. Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
- Henry James
243. It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delectable necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.
- Alistair Cooke
244. Indeed, birthdays are special days that mark the growth and accomplishment we have made in the year past, and for more to come in the upcoming year.
- Kate S.
245. Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
- Albert Einstein
246. The best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once.
- E. Joseph Cossman
247. No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
- Robin Williams
248. I’m trying to raise the awareness of the troops that, when they deploy and go to war, it’s not just them at war – it’s also their family. Their family is having to go through all the hardships and the stresses.
- Chris Kyle
249. You know that when I hate you, it is because I love you to a point of passion that unhinges my soul.
- Julie de Lespinasse
250. Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
- Charles Dickens
251. Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
252. But see, in our open clearings, how golden the melons lie; Enrich them with sweets and spices, and give us the pumpkin-pie!
- Margaret Junkin Preston
253. Always take some of the play, fun, freedom and wonder of the weekend into your week & your work.
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
254. I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
- Harry Dean Stanton
255. Charlie, stay away from those things. They’re reindeer, you don’t know where they’ve been. They all look like they’ve got key lime disease.
- Scott Calvin, The Santa Clause
256. Nobody wants to give up a weekend-long excuse to dress up and attempt to outshine one another.
- Elizabeth Eulberg
257. We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.
- Fitz-James O’Brien
258. How did it get so late so soon?
- Dr. Seuss
259. Always it’s Spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
- E. E. Cummings
260. I hate Christmas. The mall is full of nothing but women and children. All you hear is, ‘I want this,’ ‘Get me this,’ ‘I have to have this’… and then there’s the children. And they’re all by my store ’cause they stuck the mall Santa right outside ringing his stupid bell. As if you need a bell to notice a 300-pound alcoholic in a red suit. ‘Ho, ho, ho,’ all day long. So, nice as can be, I go outside, ask him to shut the hell up. He takes a swing at me. So I lay a hook into his fat belly and he goe
- Al Bundy, Married With Children
261. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- John Lubbock
262. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
263. The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.
- Shannon L. Alder
264. Grant me a sense of humor, Lord, the saving grace to see a joke, to win some happiness from life, and pass it on to other folks.
- Irish Prayer
265. Love doesn’t drop on you unexpectedly; you have to give off signals, sort of like an amateur radio operator.
- Helen Gurley Brown
266. I still work weekends because I like it; I enjoy it. I just don’t care.
- Edgardo Osorio
267. The thing is this: You got to have fun while you’re fightin’ for freedom, ’cause you don’t always win.
- Molly Ivins
268. My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all…All my heart has ever wanted is you.
- Stephanie Laurens
269. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
- Samuel Butler
270. Dancing of the autumn laves on a surface of a lake is a dream we see when we are awake.
- Mehmet Murat Idles
271. As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.
- Norman Wisdom
272. A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
273. I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.
- Craig Ferguson
274. A birthday is a glorious day filled with good laughter, gladness and great memories.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
275. Make every day your weekend. Make every day a play day.
- James Murphy
276. Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest.
- Larry Lorenzoni
277. I like the night. Without the dark, we’d never see the stars.
- Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
278. Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
- Charles Dickens
279. Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love.
- Sitting Bull
280. Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn’t have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship – all perks of adulthood.
- Rosecrans Baldwin
281. Each new year of life added to your past, changing the way you viewed every new day, influencing how you reacted to everything from the simplest daily routines to complex events touching you, your family, and the world you lived in.
- Paul Snyder
282. Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.
- Anthony Powell
283. One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.
- Jeanette Walls
284. A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.
- Patricia Briggs
285. Every graduate here today has the training and the talent to succeed. But do you have the guts to fail?
- Denzel Washington
286. A little bit of summer is what the whole year is all about.
- John Mayer
287. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
- William Shakespeare
288. Don’t worry about another birthday, let the best of life has to offer, be your focus! After all none of us knows what tomorrow will bring, live for today, recognize and appreciate the years you have had!
- Theodore W. Higginsworth
289. Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.
- Virgil A. Kraft
290. I believe that no matter what condition you are in when someone close to your heart remembers your birthday and wishes you a happy birthday, you feel happy.
- A. Singala
291. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
292. A thought about Thanksgiving Day: Once, there was this day… this one day when… everyone realized they needed each other.
- April Burns, Pieces of April
293. From the end spring new beginnings.
- Pliny The Elder
294. Hear! hear!’ screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, ‘winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.’
- Henry David Thoreau
295. Just because I’m not forever by your side doesn’t mean that’s not precisely where I want to be.
- Stephanie Laurens
296. If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.
- Victoria Erickson
297. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are.
- Abhishek Bachchan
298. To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
299. We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
- Tim McGraw
300. Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
- Victor Hugo
301. Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter
- Satchel Paige
302. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
- Lucille Ball
303. Most graduates have a mixture of emotions at this time. You probably have a tremendous sense of relief and accomplishment for finishing a major course of study.
- Michael Farris
304. Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.
- Jon Anderson
305. It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where every day is your Saturdays and Sundays.
- James Murphy
306. Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
- Jim Davis
307. Be excited about your college graduation and career opportunities!
- Paul B. Hudson
308. My most memorable meal is every Thanksgiving. I love the food: the turkey and stuffing; the sweet potatoes and rice, which come from my mother’s Southern heritage; the mashed potatoes, which come from my wife’s Midwestern roots; the Campbell’s green-bean casserole; and of course, pumpkin pie.
- Douglas Conant
309. We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.
- Garry Zukhav
310. Without Valentine’s Day, February would be…well, January.
- Jim Gaffigan
311. The road to graduation is a long, steep climb, so take a moment at the summit to be proud of your accomplishments.
- Sheryl Sandberg
312. It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer.
- Anna Godberson
313. The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
- Bernard Williams
314. As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear – we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees.
- Solomon Ortiz
315. How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
316. My dear terrified graduates, you are about to enter the most uncertain and thrilling period of your lives. The stories you are about to live are the ones you will be telling your children, and grandchildren, and therapists.
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
317. Typically a weekend retreat for the heart, soul and palate, brunch is the perfect way to unwind and reconnect.
- Marcela Valladolid
318. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
- Abraham Lincoln
319. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment.
- Audrey Hepburn
320. I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
- Jack Kerouac
321. For those of you who cannot be with family this Thanksgiving, please resist the urge to brag.
- Andy Borowitz
322. Having the right mindset is critical to graduation no matter at what age you decide to take the leap.
- Mike Finley
323. When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person.
- Aimee Friedman
324. There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
- O. Henry, Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen
325. Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it’s not for you they sing, And if you think my winter is too cold, You don’t deserve my spring.
- Erin Hanson
326. The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.
- B.B. King
327. Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.
- Carl Jung
328. I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.
- Ruth Stout
329. Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!
- Louisa May Alcott
330. The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
- Madeleine L’Engle
331. My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.
- George R.R. Martin
332. The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.
- Lama Willa
333. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.
- Richard Adams
334. Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.
- Charlotte Bront?
335. A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.
- Artie Lange
336. I believe that it is a mandatory Law of the Universe that on Fridays, you have to do something a little fun.
- Hanna Rhoades
337. Honoring the sacrifices many have made for our country in the name of freedom and democracy is the very foundation of Veterans Day.
- Charles B. Rangel
338. The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.
- Robert M. Hutchins
339. When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
- Wilma Rudolph
340. To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
- Aristotle
341. Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning buildings. It’s a general clean-out.
- Baron Fellowes
342. Forever on Thanksgiving Day the heart will find the pathway home.
- Wilbur D. Nesbit
343. America’s veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
- Steve Buyer
344. He is my world and my world is him and without him there is no world.
- Lauren Oliver
345. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
- Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf
346. There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- Homer
347. Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
- J.K. Rowling
348. 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
349. In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
- Ben Aaronovitch
350. There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of Autumn leaves.
- Joe. L. Wheeler
351. There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
- Shmuley Boteach
352. Good-night dear friend! I say good-night to thee. Across the moonbeams, tremulous and white, bridging all space between us!
- Hester A. Benedict
353. Now that you’ve graduated, just remember, bosses don’t usually accept notes from your mother.
- Melanie White
354. On Thanksgiving I will stop to give thanks that my family is safe and healthy, especially because I realize that, following the tragedies of this year, it is all too real a possibility that they might not have been.
- Bobby Jindal
355. It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
- George S. Patton
356. Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays. So there is a plural, which in the English language, necessitates the use of ‘s.’ I suppose you could say ‘Merry Christmas’ and ‘Happy New Year,’ but you probably have sh*t to do.
- Jon Stewart
357. Birthdays are inevitable, beautiful and very particular moments in our lives! Moments that bring precious memories back, celebrate the present times and give hope for the future.
- Bsbr Arish
358. I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still.
- Rachel Cohn
359. Who’s the bane of Santa’s life? The elf and safety officer.
- Catherine Tate
360. My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place — police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces.
- Sidney Sheldon
361. It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.
- John Galsworthy
362. Ever wonder what people got Jesus for Christmas? It’s like, ‘Oh great, socks. You know I’m dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They’ll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?’
- Jim Gaffigan
363. When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
- Willie Nelson
364. Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
- Henry Van Dyke
365. When asked if my cup is half-full or half-empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.
- Sam Lefkowitz
366. Day is over, night has come. Today is gone, what’s done is done. Embrace your dreams, through the night. Tomorrow comes with a whole new light.
- George Orwell
367. Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
- Erma Bombeck
368. Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
369. Learning is not something that stops once you get out of school. Rather, it’s something that should be considered as a vital component of your day-to-day life.
- Rupert Johnson
370. You know what I want to do? Wake up one weekend and not have to go anywhere and do nothing.
- Derek Jeter
371. My life is better with every year of living it.
- Rachel Maddow
372. The list of Irish saints is passing counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick.
- Stephen Gwynn
373. The one thing women don’t want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.
- Joan Rivers
374. O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
375. Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.
- Luther Burbank
376. Graduation is also the first time you are able to do what you want with your life, without anyone holding you back or telling you no.
- Michael Pipper
377. This past Christmas, I told my girlfriend for months in advance that all I wanted was an Xbox. That’s it. Beginning and end of list, Xbox. You know what she got me? A homemade frame with a picture of us from our first date together. Which was fine. Because I got her an Xbox.
- Anthony Jeselnik
378. As you start your journey, the first thing you should do is throw away that store-bought map and begin to draw your own.
- Michael Dell
379. The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
- Paris Hilton
380. But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present.
- Nick Lampson
381. What a strange thing to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.
- Kobayashi Issa
382. Don’t fight with the pillow, but lay down your head and kick every worriment out of the bed.
- Edward Vance Cooke
383. The time between good night to good morning, all poetries are mentioned by her with his love and their good memories.
- Vaishal Sheth
384. You know you’re old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
385. Oh, the summer night, has a smile of light, and she sits on a sapphire throne.
- Bryan Procter
386. Select a personal quote to put on birthday and holiday cards to your family and friends. Share the positivity and inspiration.
- Ellen Young
387. At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement.
- Benjamin Franklin
388. Before you fall asleep every day, say something positive to yourself.
- Enid Bagnold
389. Struggling to decide what to do after graduation is, and always will be, a sort of rite of passage to the next phase of your life.
- Gloria Davidson, When Graduation Spits You Out
390. The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
- Gary Zukav
391. Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
392. Thanksgiving is a time to count your blessings, one by one, as each relative goes home.
- Melanie White
393. The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
394. I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.
- L. Frank Baum
395. You did it. You got through it. You’ve run the gauntlet of exams, essays, and the occasional all-nighter and come out of it reasonably unscathed. You’ve got a diploma, a gown, and a nifty tasseled cap.
- Alyssa Favreau, Stuff Every Graduate Should Know
396. Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
- G.K. Chesterton
397. Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
- Unknown
398. I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.
- David Hockney
399. Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.
- John Muir
400. St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.
- Adrienne Cook
401. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Proverb
402. Once you start practicing being grateful and thankful for things, people, and events, you may notice that you start to attract more positive things, people, and events in your life.
- Stephanie Conkle, Happy Person. Happy Life. A Reci
403. My husband’s idea of getting the Christmas spirit is to become Scrooge.
- Melanie White
404. Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.
- Terri Guillemets
405. Turkey: A large bird whose flesh, when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
406. An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
- Irv Kupcinet
407. Being involved in a good night prayer can change lives as well.
- Dr. Olusola Coker, Command the Night
408. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph.
- Shirley Temple
409. Aren’t we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas. You know, the birth of Santa?
- Matt Groening
410. The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand. A flood of skin-tingling warmth consumes you, and everything shines with a fresh, colorful glow, making you forget that anything as cold and harsh as winter ever existed.
- Richelle E. Goodrich
411. The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
- Ernest Hemingway
412. About the only thing that comes to us without effort is old age.
- Gloria Pitzer
413. I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheist in the wintertime.
- Will Rogers
414. I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food; I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country with his heart, and not merely with his lips, follow me.
- Giuseppe Garibaldi
415. Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
- Lynsay Sands
416. Graduation is the end of theoretical knowledge and the start of practical life.
- Geetha Laxman
417. Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving.
- W. T. Purkiser
418. Before you fall asleep every day, say something positive to yourself.
- Enid Bagnold
419. Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows.
- Helen Keller
420. We can always find something to be thankful for, no matter what may be the burden of our wants, or the special subject of our petitions.
- Albert Barnes
421. I go where the sound of thunder is.
- Alfred M. Gray
422. Be careful with drinking this Christmas. I got so drunk last night I found myself dancing in a cheesy bar… or, as you like to call it, delicatessen.
- Sean Hughes
423. For all the advances in medicine, there is still no cure for the common birthday.
- John Glenn Quotes
424. Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
- Dave Berry
425. Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.
- Andy Goldsworthy
426. One of the best parts of growing older? You can flirt all you like since you’ve become harmless.
- Liz Smith
427. I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
- Bob Seger
428. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
429. The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
- Olivia Haigh Williams
430. They live for the weekends when they can go do what they really want to do.
- Richard Nelson Bolles
431. Go shawty! It’s yo birthday, we gonna party like it’s yo birthday.
- Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent
432. Your first birthday was a beginning, and each new birthday is a chance to begin again, to start over, to take a new grip on life.
- Wilfred Peterson
433. To the graduates, you might think your time in education is done, but after you leave here today, I am asking you to let your actions out there in the world fuel the demand for better education.
- Pharrell Williams
434. Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson
435. Self-care is how you take your power back.
- Lalah Delia
436. Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence
437. In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
- Mark Twain
438. If you text ‘I love you’ to a person and the person writes back an emoji – no matter what that emoji, they don’t love you back.
- Chelsea Peretti
439. Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end.
- Remy de Gourton
440. Life seems to fade our memory, so on this birthday I will forget yours if you forget?mine!
- Kate Summers
441. Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.
- Anonymous
442. If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.
- Murray Pura
443. 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
444. Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
- Richard Rorty
445. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
- Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
446. In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion and kisses whizzing by your head.
- Emma Racine Defleur
447. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
448. To those in uniform serving today and to those who have served in the past, we honor you today and every day.
- Unknown
449. Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
- Robert H. Schuller
450. For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.
- Stephanie Perkins
451. The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round — kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.
- Harlan Miller
452. When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.
- Unknown
453. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
- Plautus
454. We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
- George Bernard Shaw
455. If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.
- Victor Hugo
456. Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!
- D.S. Mixell?
457. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
- Audrey Hepburn
458. Elf has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, ‘This could be the last movie I ever make,’ and I could never have predicted that it’d become such a popular film.
- Will Ferrell
459. You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
- Tom Brokaw
460. Another year older, another year wiser.
- Allie Blum
461. Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
- Henry Ward Beecher
462. Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.
- A.D. Posey
463. Between lovers, a little confession is a dangerous thing.
- Helen Rowland
464. Winter is coming.
- George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
465. It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
- John Burroughs
466. And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.
- Oscar Wilde
467. We are always the same age inside.
- Gertrude Stein
468. Curiosity is the key to creativity.
- Akio Morita
469. Your birthday is my pleasure. You are my sweetest treasure.
- Danny Demeersseman, More than 300 Wishes for Birth
470. If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.
- Kahlil Gibran
471. The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
- Carl Jung
472. Commencement. These graduates go out to a new season and our paths will never cross again in the same way.
- Marsha Woodward
473. Friends, sun, sand, and sea, that sounds like a summer to me.
- Unknown
474. Thanksgiving is the holiday of peace, the celebration of work and the simple life… a true folk-festival that speaks the poetry of the turn of the seasons, the beauty of seedtime and harvest, the ripe product of the year — and the deep, deep connection of all these things with God.
- Ray Stannard Baker
475. Don’t just count your years, make your years count.
- George Meredith
476. New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
- Charles Lamb
477. We sleep peaceably in our beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on our behalf.
- George Orwell
478. When you are unemployed, weekends are seven days long.
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
479. If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it’s really like making a large chicken.
- Ina Garten
480. My soul will find yours.
- Jude Deveraux
481. The earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
482. Always take some of the play, fun, freedom, and wonder of the weekend into your week and your work.
- Rasheed Ogunlaru
483. May the good memories of today lull you to sleep.
- Kate Summers
484. We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
485. How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
- John Burrows
486. That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
- Jerry Seinfeld
487. Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is.
- Erich Fromm
488. I hate the radio this time of year because they play ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ like, every other song. And that’s just not enough.
- Bridger Winegar
489. Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.
- Audrey Hepburn
490. War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
- Jimmy Carter
491. Without a doubt, the best graduation speeches captivate the audience, heart and soul. They enchant us without smothering. They advise us without being didactic.
- Randy Howe
492. I love Christmas. I receive a lot of wonderful presents I can’t wait to exchange.
- Henny Youngman
493. If you are pining for youth I think it produces a stereotypical old man because you only live in memory, you live in a place that doesn’t exist.
- David Bowie
494. They didn’t agree on much. In fact, they didn’t agree on anything. They fought all the time and challenged each other every day. But despite their differences, they had one important thing in common. They were crazy about each other.
- Nicholas Sparks
495. If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
- Meister Eckhart
496. Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.
- Brian Wilson
497. In summer, the song sings itself.
- William Carlos Williams
498. You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.
- Henny Youngman
499. I have never in my life found myself in a situation where I’ve stopped work and said, ‘Thank God it’s Friday.’ But weekends are special, even if your schedule is all over the place. Something tells you the weekend has arrived, and you can indulge yourself a bit.
- Helen Mirren
500. Today you have added another candle of knowledge and wisdom to your life. May it give you the power to enlighten the whole world. On your birthday, I wish you joy and happiness.
- Debasish Mridha
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