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.
