Holiday Quotes

As we commemorate his birth each year in our holiday celebrations, we should remember that our joy in his first coming should prefigure the even greater joy we will feel at his Second Coming.

Some places are like family. They annoy us to no end, especially during the holidays, but we keep coming back for more because we know, deep in our hearts, that our destinies are intertwined.

For some unexplained reason, it's always the other end of the table that's wild and raucous, with screaming laughter and a fella who plays 'Holiday for Strings' on water glasses.

My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.

I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think well draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.

It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.

I like to go to America. That's where I go for most of my holidays.

I'm one of these people that if I have a nice holiday - like I have had in Turkey repeatedly - I go back a lot.

Evil knows no holiday.

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa.

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

I'm excited about Thanksgiving. It's my favorite holiday. It's the feast of a thousand senses, so just eat, eat, eat, eat.

Southend is a dormitory town for London. But it also had this thing of being the playground of the East End - a glamorous holiday town.

Taking a digital holiday is a great way to start bringing balance back into your life.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.

For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

There's a new Osama bin Laden video. He's the only person that is looking thin during the holidays. How does he do it? I think he's going to Jenny Craig.

Save for your goals. Take note of what's coming your way - vacations, the holidays, what ever is going to cost you money - and start saving ahead of time so that you have a stash when the time comes.

Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

My favorite holiday is my birthday-it's very Leo.

I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.

I'm not wild about holidays. They always seem a ludicrously expensive way of proving there's no place like home.

People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

I don't really think of Valentines Day as much of a holiday, you should show love for people you care about everyday.

I prefer Christmas, which is everybody's holiday. It's just my nature. I don't like to be zeroed in on en masse.

If you look at the other singers of Billie Holiday's time, they were really trying to entertain. They were trying to make people feel good. They were singing fast - and she was singing the blues.

[Billie Holiday] was keeping it super real, and you can feel that to this day. Everything that she sang, she believed in. So I had to pick songs that I felt the same about.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

I'm the depresso guy on holidays.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

Plenty of friendships are sustainable through dinners and lunches, but will not stand a week away. So be careful with whom you go on holiday.

For me, a good holiday is about value for money rather than things to see.

If you go away with, you know, a girlfriend, wife, whatever, you have an argument on holiday because you're not used to spending that much time with people.

I don't think I've had a holiday in my entire life that wasn't about my dad's work.

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!

'Best Man Holiday' was a very successful film.

I've been going to Bamburgh for holidays since I was a child.

Holidays do bring out the craziness in everyone. This time of year tends to being out the insanity in otherwise normal people.

Catholic and Jew - it's very closely related, a lot of holidays, a lot of guilt, a lot of the same things going on.

Every time I've been to Los Angeles, I've hated it. My brother works there, so I usually go each year for a holiday.

Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.

Billie Holiday's voice was the voice of living intensity of soul in the true sense of that greatly abused word.

The whole Valentine's thing is fine, but you don't back it up right next to the biggest gift-giving holiday of the year. Unbelievable. And we find it acceptable.

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday.

I found out long ago, it's a long way down the holiday road. Holiday road, holiday road. Jack be nimble, Jack be quick. Take a ride on the West Coast kick. Holiday road.