Holiday Quotes · Page 34

Thanksgiving is America's favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention.

— Linda Colley

I'm honoring America by stretching a one-day holiday into a week of blowing off work.

— Anonymous

My earliest memory is going to live with my grandmother when I was four. My mum told me she was going on…

— Davina McCall

As a kid, you await holidays with a wide-eyed, passionate, almost maniacal enthusiasm. Heavy breathing is involved.

— Gina Barreca

God won’t give you more than you can handle.’” Holiday chuckled. “And we just wish He didn’t trust us so much, right?

— C.C. Hunter

When I was filming 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' in America, for a couple of weeks beforehand we would always fit in a…

— Anthony Head

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

— Christopher Hitchens

Most of my holidays are with wonderfully generous friends with houses in the country or the South of France.

— Patrick Cox

“Time takes no holiday. It does not roll idly by, but through our senses works its own wonders in the mind. Time…

— Augustine of Hippo

I hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don't get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did…

— John Waters

I wanted to play piano in restaurants in the south of France. I went there on holiday once and I saw this…

— Robert Pattinson

If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't taken it away from kids. We've just…

— Cassandra Peterson

In our careers you don't get the option to say, 'I'm going to take two months off, or go on holiday.' You…

— Perrie Edwards

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to…

— George Santayana

During holiday parties when people used to ask me what I did for a living, I would tell them I sold resort…

— Dean Karnazes

Christmas and the New Year are actually two holidays, so there is a plural, which in the English language necessitates the use…

— Jon Stewart

Christmas is the time to share love & joy. A time to recollect beautiful memories. It is a time to sit back…

— Anonymous

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.

— David Letterman

If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to…

— Karl Pilkington

I wouldn't say that holidays are manufactured by corporations, but they're certainly exploited and mined by them.

— Dan Savage

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

When I did Taming of the Shrew, I was very tired, and I decided to have a holiday and make a documentary.

— Diane Cilento

A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in…

— Robert Breault

Thanksgiving is coming. I wonder what the holiday will be like at Dog the Bounty Hunter’s house—obviously, they’ll have a turkey with…

— Chelsea Handler

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.

— Mary Anne Radmacher

I've known Guadeloupe for a long time because I used to go there on holiday when I was a child.

— Josephine Jobert

As you prepare to Celebrate Christmas, remind yourself that Life itself is a Celebration. Make each day a Celebration!

— Anonymous

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.

— Scott Adams

“I spent the 2022 Thanksgiving holiday researching high altitude police corruption.”

— Steven Magee

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

— Bertrand Russell

I have the most wonderful childhood memories of holidays in the golden age before foreign package holidays were even a glint in…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

— Tony Snow

Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA).

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'

— Diana Ross

Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my life.

— Brian Clough

I know I idolise someone like Billie Holiday, but I don't look at her and think I have to imitate her lifestyle,…

— Lisa Stansfield

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like…

— William James

My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the heather in…

— Rupert Everett

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie…

— Barbra Streisand

I read a lot of heavy literature when I'm on set, so on holiday I want to indulge in something light-hearted.

— Hayley Atwell