Holiday Quotes · Page 12

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

“For their holidays: the rich go see the world; the poor go see their parents.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Alan Bennett

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate not as individuals nor as a nation, but as a human family.

— Ronald Reagan

“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

I don't classify myself as the first space tourist because I wasn't as though I paid and had a holiday out of…

— Helen Sharman

Happy Memorial Day Weekend. Please thank a Vet, their families who sacrifice so much and say a prayer for those that paid…

— Anonymous

When I'm with my daughters on a holiday, I become one of the girls instead of their mother.

— Hema Malini

“For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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

— Eddie Redmayne

Halloween was definitely the biggest holiday when I was a kid. We started making our Halloween costumes in August. Me and my…

— Jason Blum

My favorite thing about the holiday season is the lights! I love walking around with family, friends, and a cup of peppermint…

— Caroline Sunshine

Everyone is always telling me that I must be exhausted, but I've learned how to use my time well, and that includes…

— Wayne McGregor

“Nine years, and you've never had a day off sick, never used all your annual leave. That's dedication, you know. It's not…

— Gail Honeyman

The problem with being on the road - especially in a hot place like Florida - is that you can begin to…

— Boy George

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time…

— Gabrielle Zevin

“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

I think one of the finest gifts I can give my friends in the holiday season is to pause with a long…

— Mary Anne Radmacher

I think that pretty much every form of fiction (I’d include fantasy, obviously) can actually be a real escape from places where…

— Neil Gaiman

I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under…

— Denis Johnson

“Colored lights blink on and off, racing across the green boughs. Their reflections dance across exquisite glass globes and splinter into shards…

— Vera Nazarian

...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular…

— Bernardino Ramazzini

Summer, with its dog days, its vacations, its distractions, is over. We have had our holidays, our rest, our recreation. The fall…

— B. C. Forbes

Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

— William Shakespeare

Mentally I am ready for Christmas. Financially I am not ready for Christmas.

— Anonymous

May the joy of the holiday be with you in the new year.

— Anonymous

When I was in school, Diwali was always a holiday. So we would go and meet friends.

— Catherine Tresa

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

— Anonymous

Year's end, all corners of this floating world, swept.

— Matsuo Basho

I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.

— Matthew Williamson

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

— Francis Bacon