Quotes About Holiday

We had chosen the Highlands as a place to holiday before Frank took up his appointment as a history professor at Oxford, on the grounds that Scotland had been somewhat less touched by the physical horrors of war than the rest of Britain, and was less susceptible to the frenetic postwar gaiety that infected more popular vacation spots.

Wonderful Christmas Time' is a Christmas song but it was supposed to be an attempt at a traditional song.

I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.

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

An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know.

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

Christmas Day itself is always bittersweet, because it's the last day of that beautiful magick that's been building up like a tidal wave for the past month. In just a week it will be hard to even remember what it's like. I'll be brokenhearted at the thought of it being gone again for an entire year.

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.

It was Monday morning, and Sally did not have to go to school since it was a holiday. What she didn't know is that this day was going to be special.

This is the feast of our mortality, the most mundane and human holiday.

The concept of doing holiday episodes is a huge part of what's fantastic about doing TV. And viewers agree; you see the numbers going up for holiday episodes.

For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics.

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I.

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.

Grief took a terrible toll. It was paid at every birthday, every holiday, each Christmas. It was paid when glimpsing the familiar handwriting, or a hat, or a balled-up sock. Or hearing a creak that could have been, should have been, a footstep. Grief took its toll each morning, each evening, every noon hour as those who were left behind struggled forward.

At Christmas homes were full of the people there and the people not there.

At Christmas homes were full of the people there and people not there.

There was a movement at one time, not so many years ago either, which was international in its scope, which had for its object the setting aside the first of May for a general, international holiday, looking ultimately to the inauguration of a short-hour workday, but this grand idea has been side-tracked in later years by a lot of political buncombe and claptrap, thus persuading the working classes into the notion that they can gain their freedom by electing a lot of fellows to office. (1906)

It's the countryside. Perhaps this is our holiday home.

I wish Hallmark made a Deadbeat Dad Christmas card.

Mentally I am ready for Christmas. Financially I am not ready for Christmas.

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.