Holiday Quotes

And here I am sitting again, yes, sitting again by this faithful lamp, feeling indescribably serene and unhurried. I shall travel this day's path quite calmly and just take a little holiday—my eyes and head are slightly overstressed and overstrained. One must have the patience to do a little less.

~ –Etty Hillesum

It’s so obvious that you’re gonna ask a good looking dude to be with you for the rest of your holiday while you only know his name for like 2 hours, 32 minutes, 12 seconds.”“Trisha! Being mean is my job! June, you’re so predictable, like, it’s not a shock for us if you’re gonna ask a good looking dude to be with you for the rest of your holiday while you only know his name for like 2 hours, 33 minutes, 2 seconds.

~ Rea Lidde

However, although you might think this is the time of year to take some time off, you must never transgress one of the allotment rules: 'Thou shan't go on holiday in summer!

~ Mitchell Beazley

I'll remember your apocalypse if you'll remember mineIt will be a holiday of the senses

~ Eric Gamalinda

In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.

~ Alain Ducasse

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

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

~ John Clayton

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

~ Christopher Hitchens

The Swedish Christmas is definitely unique, even throughout Scandinavia. Like Christmas everywhere, it's a very family-centered holiday.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

~ Monica Johnson

There are a lot of Grinches out there that would like nothing better than to take any references to religion out of the holiday season.

~ Ernest Istook

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.

~ J. C. Ryle

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

~ Jimmy Cannon

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

~ Martin Parr

I can't explain something I saw on holiday on Holy Island when I was about nine years old, but do you know what, it could have been my PE teacher dressed in a monk's habit. I have no idea. I'm not a ghost person... it doesn't mean there aren't unexplained things; I just don't think they're ghosts.

~ Tom Goodman-Hill

Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don't know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I'll get it.

~ Janis Joplin

My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case.

~ Evelyn Glennie

The only holiday of independence which I can never leave out is the celebration of the independence of the Jewish State of Israel.

~ Milos Zeman

Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.

~ Hilarie Burton

I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.

~ Enzo Ferrari

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

~ Kenny Baker

Medical attention and emotional support can be difficult to obtain for those in need, yet both are essential to nurturing healthy futures year round and especially during the holiday season.

~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell

If I'm on holiday, I travel light, but if it is a work trip, I take everything but the kitchen sink.

~ Marie Helvin

For years, I had a top secret clearance and never left Russia. Just once did I go to Bulgaria with my wife for a holiday at the Golden Sands resort, but I could not mention my real name. I was allowed to travel abroad only in the early 1990s.

~ Mikhail Kalashnikov

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

Halloween is fun, but it wasn't always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

~ Tobin Bell

Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.

~ Marcus Samuelsson

Thanksgiving is the only day of the year when most of the stores here are closed during the day and reopen after midnight. Even restaurants shut down for the holiday, except for the fast-food chains.

~ Sayed Kashua

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

~ Ina Garten

Having a birthday around the holidays was never easy and, with every successive year, it felt more and more as if celebrating my birthday got thrown into the December holiday mix as an afterthought.

~ Chelsea Manning

Even when you take a holiday from technology, technology doesn't take a break from you.

~ Douglas Coupland

There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.

~ Hilarie Burton

When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and be nice because you don't know what kind of day they've had. You are going on holiday and they're stuck wherever they are. Be nice to them because they can re-route your baggage to wherever they feel like.

~ Ross Kemp

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie.

~ Ellen Page

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

~ Edmund Hillary