Quotes About Holiday

For me, acting is like a holiday. I spend a lot of time at home with my kids, and then every so often I go out and flex my creative muscles on stage.

Nothing says Christmas like a burning meth lab.

It was the holiday season, the time of year that turned women into card-carrying split personalities.

You didn't think that was just a holiday for them, did you? Surely you don't expect me to let them simply sit around and play. Their brains would turn to soup.

You see, in the Czech Republic, on December fifth, St. Nicholas goes around bringing candy and small gifts to children, accompanied by an angel and a devil. In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?)

In a holiday tradition that is the stuff of nightmares, the devil threatens to scoop bad children into his sack and carry them to hell. (And you thought coal in your stocking was harsh?)

I don't carol, said Simon. I'm Jewish. I only know the dreidel song.

I knew better than to believe a family was anything like the ones you saw on TV, and my own experience was disaster oriented at almost all times, but I knew—if only from the family I'd begun to form with Sean and Maya—that there was such a thing as people functioning together. Maybe not every minute of every day, but long enough to form a decent holiday. Maybe even a decent life.

the "advertising lords" of Madison Avenue who "had reduced Christmas to a carnival of mass marketing.

The holidays make her feel as if she's supposed to be in a cuddle, since everybody else suddenly seems paired off, like mittens, slippers or AA batteries.

Consumerism has a religious day called Black Friday.

Changing to Daylight Saving Time on Sunday should always be followed by a national holiday on Monday.

Ghosts never appear on Christmas Eve.

A family holiday to Jamaica in 2004 - my uncle was getting married out there, and it was the first holiday I'd had in Jamaica, which is where my father is from. My friends and I stayed in a really plush hotel, The Ritz-Carlton, so we had a great experience.

I love using my platform to create unforgettable holiday memories for children.

I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.

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

Listing and counting have a spooky, magical power, and the holiday season is a spooky, magical time.

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.

Spring Break is very strange. I grew up in France, so I don't know Spring Break. That doesn't exist in Europe.

Since I was a little girl, my family has taken a holiday to Cornwall every spring half-term.

Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That's for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.