Holiday Quotes

But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Life is a breathing-space between two eternities, a holiday with appalling realities behind and before.

I feel like it's really kind of a sit-down album, much in the same way I imagine Billie Holiday or someone sitting down in the studio and singing.

If we took a holiday, took some time to celebrate, just one day out of life, it would be, it would be so nice.

Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.

In a country that never wins anything: in Canada, if one of our athletes so much as makes the final in a World Championship, we declare a national holiday.

My own passion for caravan holidays has been occasionally commented on by the media. It is certainly something that I am proud of.

I thought I had to show people that I would get in early, stay late or even all night, work on holidays. I didn't want to be the rich kid who was along for a free ride.

The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships.

The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding recession.

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

Never, ever ask a former clergyman to say the blessing over a holiday dinner. Not if you like your dinner warm, anyway.

My mother never liked Mother's Day. She thought it was a fake holiday dreamed up by Hallmark to commodify deep sentiments that couldn't be expressed with a card.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

I really like Billie Holiday's husky voice, and I'd definitely like to find out more about her.

It's not a holiday until you overdo it!

And the ultimate thing is, I may not be the expert that some people are on foreign policy, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

I started writing 'Brick Lane' when my children were two years and five months old. We were on holiday in the north of England when I was overtaken by a compulsion to start writing.

Sell before the holidays. Stock prices tend to rise on the last trading day before major holidays.

Over the holidays is when I have the most occasions to cook and bake.

Have I missed a national holiday? There must be celebrations in the streets for you to be home at this hour of the day." "I'm calling it Summerset Goes Mute Day. The city's gone mad with joy.

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

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

Nobody likes being criticised, particularly by players who will be in Disneyland this summer on their holidays rather than the World Cup in Japan

Its no coincidence that the word holiday suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.

I hate holidays because it's the quietest; it's the most deafening sound in my apartment.

A holiday in a new dress—can earth offer anything more enchanting?

The chimps love holidays - in fact Tatu actually anticipates them and asks about them.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesnt have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

I no longer have a style to maintain. I rent a little flat in Los Angeles, I don't take holidays, I don't dine out and I take cheap flights.

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

What you do on travel holiday is what your memories are based on. People want to do cool stuff, and this is what will shape your entire experience.

I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like Roman Holiday or My Fair Lady.

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

I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers

I had no desire to become a singer until I heard Billie Holiday. The first time I heard her on a record, it was a revelation. She sounded like a woman singing about herself.

My boyfriend thinks it's crazy that I wear a different bikini every day on holiday.

I enjoy shopping and going on holiday.

I wanted to only collab with women for Lovers Holiday.

My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way.

Halloween is fun, but it wasnt always my favorite holiday. I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

My favorite holiday spot has to be New York, on the St. Lawrence River. Without a doubt that area there is perfect for me. Very, very spacious. It's nice.

When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.

I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today.

Let your holidays be associated with great public events, and they may be the life of patriotism as well as a source of relaxation and personal employment.

I was very disappointed, very disappointed when President [George W.] Bush proclaimed Kwanzaa as a national holiday. Prior to that, Bill Clinton did the same thing.