Top 191 Holidays Quotes

I’ve never understood activity holidays since we seem to have far too much activity in our daily lives as it is. Find a culture where loafing is the order of the day and where they don’t understand our need to be constantly doing things. Find somewhere you can have a hammock holiday.

When I was younger, I had some close friends who always loved European football, and Real Madrid at that time were the dominant force. I remember family holidays when we used to go to Spain, and we’d bring back replica shirts of Real Madrid and pretend to be the players when we played in the park.

During the holidays, everyone needs a break from studying for exams and Christmas shopping. I wanted to put together a diverse tour that rocks in many musical directions but always points to Christ.

I just work 18 hours a day, every day. And I don’t go on holidays. And so, I guess I will die young.

Most cultures traditionally link food and spirituality directly with periodic restrictions and celebrations punctuating the year. Abstinence from particular foods or full-on fasting is part of many religious traditions and holidays.

I’m a dog lover. With the holidays, everything gets a little bit hectic. There’s a lot on your mind, and maybe you forget that your animals also feel that stress as well. So try to keep them on the same routine; try to keep the chocolate out of their mouth.

I just love the holidays so much.

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

From when we were about seven we worked in our family store during the holidays. My father said it was important that we know where our money came from.

I had a huge interior world as a kid: I’d sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.

Just as a puppy can be more of a challenge than a gift, so too can the holidays.

Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it’s true that ‘We are what we eat,’ most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.

The valuable lesson is that holidays are about love, and that’s what I have to try and channel.

I go up to San Francisco on holidays and spend time with my family there, but whenever I go to Japan, I enjoy every moment. I try to go back there every year or so. It’s a phenomenal place, and I absolutely love it. It’s not my second home; it is my home. Whenever I go back, I feel very connected with Japan.

I don’t think of Home Depot as romantic, but I do think the Christmas wonderland they put up during the holidays is magical. That is what Home Depot is to me, and that is the only romantic thing about it.

I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.

My mother is Jewish. We celebrated all the Jewish holidays at home.

I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.

I think ultimately to be able help with the holidays for somebody who might be a little less fortunate I think is the main thing and the best part of all.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

If you’d rather spend the holidays with your friends or your dog or digging wells in Kenya than with your family, do it.

Being home for the holidays is one of my happiest memories.

I like to fish. I always go when I’m on holidays in Spain.

I don’t believe in perfection, but those acrimony-free gaps during our family holidays can be downright blissful.

I also hate those holidays that fall on a Monday where you don’t get mail, those fake holidays like Columbus Day. What did Christopher Columbus do, discover America? If he hadn’t, somebody else would have and we’d still be here. Big deal.

I really only ever go on sun holidays so in my experience I prepare myself for the beach.

The light dims a little bit as you get older and new generations come along. But it’s around the holidays when I am remembered the most. It is very special, and I get a kick out of it now as much as I did when I first started.

I think my mom is the person that holds the family together. For birthdays, for the holidays or whatever, everything has to go through my mom. She’s the one reminding us about everything that’s going on in the family, she’s in touch with everybody while we’re on our own doing our things.

I work from mornings to late nights, even on weekends and holidays. I hardly have any free time, let alone time to play other games.

In Asia, it is very hectic – there is no overtime, no holidays, no weekends. It’s pretty rushed because they are trying to cut the deadline.

My wife often goes out with male friends for dinner and I go out with female friends. We have different holidays. We’re together six months of the year and when we’re together, we’re together.

Give up pride for good during the holidays. This is where I’ve been especially stubborn. As I walk more and more in this path of Christianity, I see that letting my guard down and admitting that I don’t want to be alone is far better than dealing with me, myself and I, who always seem to want to keep up appearances.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can’t open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It’s very upsetting at times.

I love holidays. It’s such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

I grew up watching film shootings as I always accompanied my father during my holidays. So I was not scared about facing the camera nor did I go to any acting classes.

I spent a lot of time in Barbados as a child and I still really enjoy going back there and enjoying the island. Going to Barbados brings back great memories of family holidays.

Christmas has always been very special to all of us and we used to look forward to the Christmas holidays. Those were very beautiful days in my childhood.

I’m so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

I think holiday spirit can mean many things and I think holiday spirit is just sort of your state of happiness during the holidays. You could say the same thing about spring spirit or summer spirit.

I’m just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can’t go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don’t live in that world. It’s not me.

I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year’s Eve.

Cooking for a crowd during the holidays takes a lot of time and effort, so we understand the desire to outsource as much of the work as possible.

I wear a lot more glitter around the holidays, so I’m always wearing different glitter nail polish or fun metallic eye shadow. It’s the holidays – everything is more twinkly and celebratory.

Men, we don’t get much, as far as holidays go – Father’s Day.

As a child, I used to spend nearly all my summer holidays with my aunt in Wales, and we used to catch mackerel in a boat and then cook them on board.

I love the atmosphere at the mall – everything about Christmas. I don’t think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.

I liked going to the Caribbean, just having nice holidays, do you know what I mean?

When I was a kid, my mother used to film all of our holidays and all of the good times, and I kind of associated the camera with everything being okay and everything being happy.

I get recognised in the street, but that’s more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.

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

I love the holidays – any holiday – but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.

It’s like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it’s remembered.

It’s really easy to figure out why I love what I love, the holidays and food. I know the difference between having them and not having them.

I always look forward to the holidays because I love dressing up in festive, shimmery evening dresses.

I hate holidays because one expects them to be perfect and so often they are not. There’s the build-up, the looking forward to it and wanting everything to be right, but so many things can go wrong and then it can be such a disappointment. I find the expectation is usually bigger than the result.

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics.

Holidays can become tedious without something to read.

For me, summer holidays, vacations, New Year, and any trip away from Bengaluru meant going to Goa. My mother is from there.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.

My holidays are very important. Mind you, I take a very long one every year.

I had always known that I was Jewish – we celebrated the holidays, we went to a synagogue – but I had never known that I was supposed to feel ashamed about it.

I think the thing about Easter holidays in particular is you don’t know what the weather’s going to be like.

You’ve got to be a right grouch to hate holidays, but one thing I do hate is the old towel on the sun bed trick. It kills me that people get up at five in the morning and go down to the swimming pool and reserve their sun bed with a towel.

Where does it stop? You get offered money for your wedding, then for your kids, new houses, holidays… We earn enough from football and sponsorships, why do you need any more?

I was a little punk rocker and was pregnant with Sarah when I went to university. I had her in the Christmas holidays of the first term. It was 1979, and UCL was very proud of its reputation as a liberal university, so they were very helpful.

The holidays are a rough time for the homeless, but it’s a year-round problem we have to solve.

Day of the Dead. Sounds a little spooky doesn’t it? It’s actually one of the most colorful and joyous of Mexican holidays.

During the holidays, I often see my sisters, who still, even after all these years, can’t always seem to agree with me. They take silly, indefensible positions, such as denying that my parents loved me more because I was the better child.

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It’s part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy.

I could just go to the horse races and take lovely holidays, but I have some strong views, and I want to make a difference.

At training camp, you brainwash yourself into thinking every,day is the same, no weekends or holidays. It’s all the same – a work day. You develop a mental state to just work hard and get ready for the fight.

For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

If money is tight, or you’re on a limited budget, then consider DIY or used gifts. DIY could be something like baked goods for your friends, family, and neighbors. Plus, if you have children, it’s a great activity to do with them during the holidays.

The holidays are my favorite time of year! Christmas was always one of the biggest celebrations in Sweden, and I look forward to the festivities each year.

Ah, my dad’s whistle. On holidays when I was a kid, we would all be off in the rock pools along the beach. When it came time to go, we’d hear the whistle and we’d all come running. Like dogs!

When you’re on tour, you really don’t get to hang out with and spend the holidays with your family and friends. And there isn’t usually much of a break in between performance dates.

I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

When I was a boy, I was 15-16, I had a job during the school holidays as an extra. That’s how I started. My first time on set was as an extra. I did it for two years. It was amazing!

The reason I did the book about holidays is that you’re a different person on holiday. You’re sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you’ve never met and for 10 days you’re someone else. You’re out of your comfortable zone.

For me, Hyderabad was all about summer holidays, rasam rice, spicy pickles, and more.

Holidays are all different depending on the company and time of your life.

Chestnuts are my favorite ingredient to use in the fall, especially for the holidays. I always find that they are meaty, hearty and have a mysterious refinement when cooked or roasted over sea salt.

We have a family holiday once a year, usually abroad, but that’s it. I feel I should have holidays for my family’s sake, but I’m not that adventurous.

I’m lucky that most of the time I’m on location in amazing places. Most of the time, I don’t need holidays, I just stop working.

The reason for my big success in England was the Brits – they started wanting to go on holidays, like Spain and Greece.

Summer at the Hollis household is all about us getting together and enjoying the pool, and Fourth of July is probably one of my favorite holidays to do just that.

It is right that people should have a statuary right to holidays and a maximum working week. It is right that part-time workers should have the same equality when it comes to hourly rates.

I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

My best holidays were in Devon and Cornwall when the children were growing up. We always used to stay on farms because our children were pretty wild, and it was great going to the beach every day. We used to go to Launceston and Salcombe and all over those two counties.

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

Personally, I love being a mother the most. I dream of taking holidays with my three kids. I want to take my kids to beaches, gardens, the farm, malls everywhere.

I was a heart surgeon before I came to Congress, and I’ve worked many holidays on behalf of my patients.

In the holidays at school, I used to go training with my dad every day. I used to see the hard work that went in behind what was an unbelievable Wigan team.

Families always have these unspoken dramas, and at holidays, everyone is supposed to sit down and pretend that none of that is going on.

In the summer, during the holidays, there would be 5,000 people each day at training with Bayern Munich and that makes it hard to concentrate.

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

Mine wasn’t a lakes-and-boats kind of childhood. I grew up on a Glasgow council estate with a single mother. For our holidays, we went to Grandma and Grandad’s caravan near Aberfoyle.

I’ve always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don’t buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I’m hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

The holidays are a time of reflection, and I think it becomes really clear in people’s minds around this time of year what they want to get out of life, who they want to spend their life with, and what kind of person they want to be.

I used to spend not just my summer vacations at my Nani’s house in Kanpur but my Diwali and Holi holidays too.

Don’t we all think picky eaters are a pain in the rear end? The good thing about the holidays is that it’s a buffet-style thing, so you can pick what you want. It’s about filling your belly, not theirs.

Most of the traditional foods we eat on Jewish holidays start out with a seasonal reason as to why we eat them, and later a religious significance is tacked on.

I want to talk about how great of a father I am. How I never miss any of my kids’ wrestling tournaments or big events like birthdays or holidays. I’m always there for anything to do with my kids.

Like all kids with divorced parents, I have an abundance of holidays.

I always loved family holidays, and I had this vision and dream as a little girl of having a big family of my own.

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

The school holidays were always an exciting time in the Brownlee household. This was the opportunity for my brother Alistair and me to escape from the classroom and enjoy the great outdoors. Our childhood was jam-packed with fun family games and activities.

Growing up, most of our family holidays were staycations in the U.K.

My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.

When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn’t go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.

I went through a little hippy dippy program at Brandeis and was bat mizvahed by the rabbi who married my parents. We celebrated the High Holidays and had the traditional Rosh Hashanah dinner.

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

Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

I think that when you talk to people about Monopoly, they love talking about their memories associated with it. And for me, I’m the same way. I mean, when I think about Monopoly, I think of my family playing at the holidays.

People generally complain that they’re overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It’s up to you.

My family is certainly very vocal. They’re very Italian. A lot of our holidays end with people screaming at each other across the room. And everyone’s very opinionated and intelligent. A lot of my aunts and uncles are wildly educated, and their opinions reflect that. We’re all very liberal.

Most national holidays in most countries rest on selective memories of the past.

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Hanoi brought Kissinger racing back to his office. It was the signal the White House had anxiously been awaiting; it was also the day of one of the biggest raids by the giant B-52s.

I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie’s ‘Murder at the Vicarage.’ I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

The worst thing people ever say is that ‘I can’t afford to have kids!’ It’s selfish, and what infuriates me is when people say they can’t do stuff they like go on holidays and buy cars when they have kids. You can – you find the money, you’ve just got to work harder for it.

I don’t like holidays. And I don’t like crowds of people. I don’t like noise.

Writing fueled me, and my task was to make it fit into my life. I practiced my trade as an attorney, and on weekends and holidays, I typed away. I assumed a nom de plume, Selena Montgomery, to separate my fiction from more academic publications.

I don’t spend on expensive brands. I don’t need foreign holidays.

I think I have taken more holidays with Boman than I have with my wife.

A ‘For Sale’ sign in your yard during the holidays is like a ‘kick me’ sign. You are telling buyers you are a distressed seller.

I love all the holidays and getting to see my family a lot during the fall. I also love the weather and getting to wear sweaters and jackets.

It’s funny what memory does, isn’t it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

When I was a girl, my grandmother would take me during the holidays to see the windows at Saks and Rockefeller Center.

I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, including a rubber turkey, which, during the holidays, I wrap in tinfoil so it appears to have just come out of the oven.

The holidays are a time to – not quite play it safe – but play it classic. You don’t want to be the girl in a head-to-toe sequin look, where you look like you should be an ornament on the tree.

We have 40 people over for Thanksgiving, 30 people for Easter lunch, 35 people on Christmas Eve. People tend to expect to spend their holidays with us, which is lovely and an expectation I carry with pride.

There was an undercurrent of poverty throughout my childhood. We lived with my grandmother in her two-bedroom flat, and I slept with my parents. We had cheap holidays, I had to save for my bike and get a paper round as soon as I was old enough.

I used to work at a movie theater and sold hams at Honey Baked Ham during the holidays. I sold a ton of hams, and they offered me a regular job there, which I turned down. I feel like anything you do, just do it 100% because then that work ethic will bleed through when it’s time to work on your dreams.

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it’s probably safe to say that I didn’t fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents’ cottage.

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

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.

On holidays, I spent time alone at home watching a movie, reading a book, and contemplating. Now that I think about it, if I hadn’t had that time, I probably wouldn’t have been able to do acting.

Even on holidays, I wake up early, and by 7 A.M., I am out sightseeing.

I’m all about simple appetizers when it comes to the holidays.

My holidays are generally impromptu, since a crazy work schedule is bound to eat into a long-planned trip.

Our family didn’t have a lot of money, so my brother, parents and I spent our holidays at Southend-on-Sea.

My husband is Australian, and my family is scattered around the U.K. and France mostly, but we try to get a big group together for the holidays.

I think religion is a bunch of hooey, and I think that the holidays are an opportunity for people to get stressed out, getting their rush to shop. It’s so conformist.

I believe the best way to celebrate the holidays is to spread cheer and joy to others.

Being a Jehovah’s Witness, I don’t celebrate birthdays or holidays. I don’t vote.

For holidays, I like doing special cheery touches around the table, like color-coordinating the plates and napkins to fit the theme.

We grew up with musicians coming over jamming. We had tons of instruments. So holidays were always like, 50 people would come over, and there would be a jam session with everyone playing jazz.

My father is from Jamaica, and as a child I spent many holidays there. I remember the weight and drenching wetness of that hot rain, as I experienced it in my childhood, not only for itself, but for what it represented for me.

I’ve been banking my holidays, which means I take time off later in the year. It makes it a lot easier to fit filming in; it can be quite challenging to study and film at the same time.

The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.

Players have exams, banquets, awards, and holidays, so it’s easy to slip up and lose focus.

When I go to Ohio to visit relatives on holidays, I am often astonished by the level of casual dismissal offered up by way of discussion.

When I was at home, I always cooked, and I usually cook over all the holidays. I always used organic.

If, for 2,000 years, you dress up differently, believe in a different God, celebrate different holidays, and on top of it insist on telling everyone that you’re completely different than them, ultimately they’ll believe you.

My parents were working class and didn’t have much money, so holidays tended to be two weeks in a caravan at St. Andrews or a B&B in Blackpool.

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.

A Jewish food is one that is almost sanctified, either by its repeated use or use within the holidays or rituals. So food that may have not been Jewish at one point can become Jewish within the cultural context.

If he wants you over for the holidays or can’t wait for you to have dinner with his buddies, it’s a sign he wants them to love you as much as he does.

Nothing has ever touched on what fun childhood was. Summer holidays were bliss. We made home movies, with real stories in them. My father had such charm and charisma, and made everything so funny.

I think I got into travelling because it was so not in my blood, so against my tendency to just stay put because my dad just hated going on holidays, because, as I’ve said in many essays, the thing that he hated more than anything else in life was spending money. And as soon as you leave your home, you’re spending money.

When friends started smoking at 16 or drinking at 18, I made myself not follow. No lads’ holidays, all that stuff.

Personally, I don’t take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn’t commissioned. I’ll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that’s what I call a holiday.

Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year – birthday, anniversary, holidays – that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt. That being said, Thanksgiving is a meal – it’s not a Thanksgiving day, and it’s not a Thanksgiving week.

I love birthdays, holidays, and anything that calls for a celebration.

When I was a young person, they used to refer to it as Christmas time. Course now it has to be politically correct and call it the holidays.

Balancing around the holidays is something I’ve been doing for years. I saved a lot of money by not going home for Christmas, that’s for sure. But I still spoke with all my family and connected with everyone.

When I was young, my family used to go and stay in hotels on the south coast in places like Devon. I loved those holidays because they were with my brothers, who were away at school; I really looked forward to them.

During my campaign for Public Advocate, and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign for mayor, we committed to making Eid school holidays a reality.

My family and I are so close, it’s important to have a close knit relationship and to make time to spend with each other, especially at the holidays.

I love holidays in New York. I love ’em. I want to celebrate something all the time, and New York has holidays for every day of the week, practically. I like holidays in New York City.

I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond, away from our daily hectic schedules.

The house I’ve bought in London, the holidays, everything has been bought from making people laugh, and if you’d said to me when I was 14 that’s how I was going to make my living, I would have smiled from ear to ear.

I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree – those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

I was on the steering committee of the New York City Coalition on Muslim School Holidays.

When the holidays approach and the weather turns cold, you spend your nights watching and rewatching saccharine movies until you fall asleep, hoping for some gleam of happiness or catharsis that never comes, a version of life that looks like a Hallmark movie or where your idealized prince finally shows up.

Since Chip and I try to go on a date night once a week, we don’t feel the need to keep holidays like Valentine’s Day all to ourselves. We set the table fancy, we all get dressed up, and we serve a big, beautiful candlelight dinner. It’s our kids’ favorite, too.

As an actor, I always have this thing where I can’t plan ahead for holidays or a break because I don’t know when I might be needed for the next job.

They say you’re blessed to be a blessing to others. There’s no better time to live that saying then the holidays. Especially when so many families are struggling.

I take the six weeks of the school summer holidays off because I’m pretty sure I’m not going to look back on my life one day and say, ‘Damn, I wish I hadn’t spent so much time with my children.’

The best way to celebrate the holidays is with some delicious food.

In my work, I’m called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays, and holding a map makes me happy.

As an Aussie, my favourite holidays are skiing ones.

Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don’t need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It’s brutal. And there’s a trophy.

All in all, we Muslims have only two holidays, and they’re always getting moved around from season to season, from month to month, because we’re dependent on the moon and not the sun, and unlike the Jews, we haven’t created a leap year, so we have no Adar Bet.

I played a sport for most of my adult life that required me to work on two of the biggest holidays in America, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Holidays are our one big family indulgence.