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Quotes About Holiday

I've never stayed in a tent or a caravan in my life, and I never joined the Boy Scouts. I don't see the point of going on holiday to enjoy less comfort than I have at home.
~ Terry Wogan
Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.
~ Michelle Dean
Class Day is a terrible name for a day when you don't have to go to any class.
~ Andy Samberg
I was on holiday in Morocco and in the middle of nowhere some random strangers suddenly shouted out 'T4!' It was so out of the blue; l was terrified for a minute!
~ Miquita Oliver
The first time you go on holiday is the test of a relationship, when you really find out if you're compatible or not. You find out what's annoying about that person, and whether or not you're willing to put up with that because you love them and you don't want to be alone.
~ Alice Lowe
I'd hate to live where people knew my history. I love familiarity on holiday but not at home, as I'm sure my neighbours would testify - if I'd ever met them.
~ Sarah Millican
I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
Oh the weather outside is frightful...
~ Lois Lowry
The problem with Thanksgiving is that the pressure for the meal and the conversation to be perfect is daunting.
~ Lolly Winston
a grand explosion of culturally sanctioned greed. Presents, presents, presents.
~ Lora Leigh
They say that, for a madman, every day is a holiday, but they also say that insanity has seventy gates.
~ Louis de Bernieres
Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I wish you could have seen the kitchen when I was done: It looked like a hurricane had blown right in the door! But I cleaned it all up, and when Mother came home the whole house smelled warm and spicy, Bing Crosby was singing White Christmas on the radio, I was wearing a clean apron, and she called me her little homemaker. What would you think about tomato mincemeat cookies? I bet no one else will think of that!
~ Ruth Reichl
Laminated Lettuce ... perfect for holiday gift giving.
~ Alton Brown
This was 'oliday, London with Maurice, all troubles over, and he wanted to drowse and waste time, and tease and make love.
~ E.M. Forster
They both professed to be atheists, but, judging by their conduct, they exhibited in their daily lives all those attributes which are fundamental to real, active Christianity. They were thoughtful for my comfort in every way, and shared many of my interests and pursuits with a zest which might well have been envied by much younger people. Together we went down to Torquay for a two-week holiday and returned to Brentwood completely refreshed.
~ E.R. Braithwaite
Safety never takes a holiday.
~ Anonymous
Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.
~ Anonymous
Snow: a form of precipitation that usually occurs three weeks prior to and the morning of your departure from your ski vacation.
~ Anonymous
Caesar had written a new will during the brief Italian holiday on his return from Spain in 45 B.C.
~ Anthony Everitt
Rome holds my psyche in balance. Whenever I'm there, it's like a holiday.
~ Giambattista Valli
Being in Oxford can be a bit like being on holiday - there's plenty of time spent in the pub.
~ Kevin Whately
In my days, players were only thinking about publicity during holiday and on rest days.
~ Zico
All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.
~ Jay Griffiths