Holiday Quotes

• Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Mind
  • Beach
  • River

• I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music
  • Holiday

• It’s even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • People
  • Sick
  • Recovery

• Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday - it's a day that's American to the core and it's a day that's all about what and how we eat.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • American
  • Holiday
  • Thanksgiving

• I have never gone on a real trip, never taken a holiday. The best holiday for me is spent in my workshops when nearly everybody else is on vacation.

  

  Enzo Ferrari
  • Real
  • Taken
  • Vacation

• It's a very rich brew that's in your psyche by the time you're in your 60s, and I think that's rather interesting. It makes you feel you've lived a very long life; it's like going on holiday to three different cities rather than spending two weeks in Lisbon. You look back on the holiday, and you seem to have been away forever.

  

  Deborah Moggach
  • Life
  • Time
  • Different

• Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday.

  

  John Clayton
  • Pretty
  • Christmas
  • Thanksgiving

• I don't need a holiday or a feast to feel grateful for my children, the sun, the moon, the roof over my head, music, and laughter, but I like to take this time to take the path of thanks less traveled.

  

  Paula Poundstone
  • Time
  • Music
  • Children

• I have a little bit of an addiction to work. So I'm always hiding in the bathroom with my Blackberry to work when I'm on holiday.

  

  Penelope Cruz
  • Work
  • Holiday
  • Addiction

• In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.

  

  Jeff Miller
  • Life
  • Home
  • Society

• I acquiesced in this on the grounds that the most anyone can expect from a holiday is a change of agony.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Holiday

• France has been struck on the day of her national holiday - the 14th of July, Bastille Day - the symbol of liberty, because human rights are denied by fanatics, and France is clearly their target.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Holiday

• Out of the seventy movies I’ve written some ten of them were not entirely waste product. These were Underworld, The Scoundrel, Wuthering Heights, Viva Villa, Scarface, Specter of the Rose, Actors and Sin, Roman Holiday, Spellbound, Nothing Sacred.'

  

  Ben Hecht
  • Rose
  • Holiday

• Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Why
  • Peace

• My British mum met my American dad when she was on holiday in the United States when she was 19. She kinda never looked back. I was born in the United States, raised in Montana and London.

  

  Philip Winchester
  • She
  • American
  • Dad

• With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

  

  Lee Haney
  • Heart
  • High
  • Air

• Part of my passion for all things Christmas is seeing my holiday stuff again every December. I suppose I do have more than most folks, so the reunion each winter keeps me in the holiday spirit for a full year. And there are always a few pieces out in my house whatever the month.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • House
  • Passion
  • Christmas

• Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Welcome
  • Cheer
  • Thanksgiving

• Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Holiday

• I think my first musical memory is actually listening to Billie Holiday. I think I must have been, like, 3 or 4 years old.

  

  Jose James
  • Listening
  • Holiday

• I love listening to music on holiday, and back in the old days, I used to travel with cassette tapes and a boombox.

  

  Art Malik
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Travel

• I have a huge costume section in my closet - wigs, mustaches, the whole thing. Halloween's my favorite holiday, so I have a lot of weird stuff.

  

  Clark Duke
  • Weird
  • Holiday
  • Halloween

• From 1971 onwards, the Memorial Day holiday was officially observed on the last Monday in May and became the unofficial start of the summer, with barbecues, blockbuster movie openings and mattress sales.

  

  Allen West
  • May
  • Movie
  • Summer

• There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • She
  • Happy
  • Broken

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