Holiday Quotes · Page 11

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.

— Portuguese Proverb

I have the biggest sweet tooth. After the holidays, I gotta start working out.

— Devon Werkheiser

For me, a holiday is doing something else apart from what I normally do.

— Milind Soman

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

— Osbert Sitwell

Holiday traditions in my family are really it's all about the kids.

— Kelly Rowland

I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.

— Paul Young

I'm always giving away things on 'This Morning,' money or holidays.

— Alison Hammond

DONT DECLARE HOLIDAY ON MY DEATH, INSTEAD WORK AN EXTRA DAY, IF U LOVE ME

— Abdul Kalam

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then…

— Johnny Carson

There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

People are so nice to each other on holidays...especially at Christmas. Why don't people beat up each other at Christmas? Now that…

— Klaus Nomi

Other people's traditions look charming and decorative and exotic. They're nice places to visit on holiday, but you wouldn't want to live…

— A. A. Gill

My mum wanted me to be a doctor because she worked in nursing. So she was quite disappointed when I came back…

— Ainsley Harriott

“The Jews had holidays that turned up out of the blue and the Catholics had children in much the same way.”

— Alan Bennett

“Oh, thank heavens!” and “Just in time for the holidays” and “Oh, can you really believe . . . ?”

— Anonymous

Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?

— Bob Hope

In some countries Women's Day is a national holiday and men give women flowers. In America Women's Day falls on another holiday,…

— Craig Ferguson

So if you have over-indulged during the holidays, for example, please don't beat yourself up, but rather have compassion and forgiveness and…

— Marci Shimoff

My father had his own business, a clothing store, which he inherited from his father. He travelled abroad frequently and was quite…

— Britt Ekland

I once tried to feed 15 kids on a group holiday. Each parent said pasta with tomato sauce would be a sure-fire…

— Rebecca Front

I survived because I never took on big responsibilities in my private life. In the early days, I lived on two or…

— Cameron Mackintosh

When I first heard Nina Simone, her naked truth shocked me. Whenever she sang, it felt like lightning bolts in my soul.…

— Dianne Reeves

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays…

— Hunter Tylo

I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a…

— Eddie Redmayne

She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Obviously there's something very seductive about movies, which can be attractive in a bad way if you're doing them for the wrong…

— Andrew Garfield

Food historian Jessica B. Harris says African American cuisine is simply what black people ate. When I think about what my family…

— Bryant Terry

I think what's surprised me most about the club is to feel that wherever you go, even when you go on holiday…

— Juan Mata

The love of experiment was very strong in him [Charles Darwin], and I can remember the way he would say, "I shan't…

— Francis Darwin

Have you ever noticed that Jesus is never recorded as taking a holiday? He retired for the purposes of his mission, not…

— Evelyn Underhill

“In the history of terrible holidays, this ranks as the worst ever. Worse than the Fourth of July when Granddad showed up…

— Stephanie Perkins

If the aim is to keep "Christ" in the shopping-mall Christmas or to ensure that pagan trees and mistletoe don't lose their…

— Charles Haynes

Days in unemployment and days out work are like holidays...

— Melchor Lim

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."

— Mary Anne Radmacher

I tend to opt for relaxed family holidays when I can.

— Samantha Bond

I think I'm a big kid at heart, so I get very excited around the holidays.

— Bobby Moynihan

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

— Alex Garland

Books don't only furnish a room: they also make the best holiday gifts.

— Michael Dirda

“Storytellers are individuals who enjoy creating a holiday for the mind.”

— Linda Daly

Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.

— Giambattista Valli