Quotes About Holiday

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved.

Happy Father's Day -- or as they call it in my family, happy brother-in-law's day.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Her presence in our household was the country air and the social life of a farm of fifty years ago transported into our midst by a kind of inverse journey in which the holiday destination travels toward the traveler.

I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.

Marvin is hairy in shirtsleeves, elbows on the table. High day or holiday or Judgement Day – no difference to Marvin. He would have put his elbows on the table if he'd been an apostle at the Last Supper.

Jak przysta?o na tryb wakacyjny, wszelki zwi?zek z rzeczywisto?ci? usta?, od tego bowiem s? wakacje, ?eby od ?ycia odpocz??.

Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's a holiday that's as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center's Mexican food pavilion.

Thanksgiving, our eminent moral holiday, doesn't have much for children. At its heart are conversation, food, drink, and fellowship - all perks of adulthood.

On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

If you think Independence Day is Americas defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving. What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving?

I have had a holiday, and I'd like to take it up professionally.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Santa Claus has the right idea. Only visit people once a year.

I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

No self-respecting mother would run out of intimidations on the eve of a major holiday.

This is where you all live?" Asked John as they ascended the stairs. "It's small.""This is just our Thanksgiving house, " Scott muttered. "We have a house for every day of the year.

Christmas without a murder plot is like a day without giant spiders eaten orphans" (quote on my special gift holiday mugs)

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

The past was like a bad dream; the future was all happy holiday as I moved Southwards week by week, easily, lazily, lingering as long as I dared, but always heeding the call!