Welcome to our collection of Holiday Quotes! Holidays are moments of joy, reflection, and celebration that bring people together, whether it’s Christmas, Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve, or any other special occasion. Throughout history, holidays have been marked by traditions, festivities, and, of course, memorable words of wisdom. From heartfelt sentiments to humorous anecdotes, holiday quotes encapsulate the spirit and essence of these cherished moments.
In this curated selection, you’ll find a diverse array of holiday quotes that capture the essence of various celebrations and occasions. Whether you’re seeking inspiration for your holiday greetings, looking to add a touch of sentiment to your decorations, or simply in need of a little festive cheer, these quotes are sure to resonate. Feel free to use them in your cards, social media posts, or any other creative projects to spread the holiday spirit far and wide!
Yes, I take a private plane on holiday a couple of times a year, and I feel horribly guilty about it. I probably shouldn’t do it. But the truth is, I’m not perfect. Laurie David
My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father’s market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne’s-on-Sea. Michael Smith
I’m not a big fan of Christmas, and I think there are a lot of people who feel a bit melancholy at the holiday. Michael Ball
My normal life is like being on holiday. Valentino Rossi
‘Kris Kringle’ is a holiday musical for a new generation – a gorgeous score paired with a heartwarming tale of family and forgiveness. Andrew Keenan-Bolger
I miss both of my parents terribly every day, but especially as we approach Thanksgiving. We always came together as a family for that holiday, playing capture the flag and touch football and laughing a lot. Mark Shriver
The holiday time is where people slow down a little bit more. You get a chance to really take in an album. Fabolous
I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate – I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday. Amy Poehler
I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few. Tamara Tunie
My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday. Etta James
‘Intrigue: Murder In The Lucky Holiday Hotel’ is a podcast put together by the BBC’s Carrie Gracie that investigates the story behind the death of British businessman Neil Heywood in the Chinese city of Chongqing in 2011. David Hepworth
I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, Wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She’s someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That’s what I do, too, so I think that’s a great comparison. Erykah Badu
My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn’t able to speak a word of the language. Stephanie Beacham
But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love. Amy Grant
If I choose a holiday destination, it would be a beach. Akhil Akkineni
Every holiday on the calendar, I check in a hotel and fast – I don’t eat, I don’t drink, I don’t talk. Dick Gregory
Each year, in my quaint efforts to send out paper holiday cards with personal messages, I probably discard one for every three I actually manage to put in the mail. The reason is that my handwriting is now less legible than it was when I was in the second grade. Meghan Daum
I grew up in the 1950s and ’60s, when it was almost a holiday when a black act would go on Ed Sullivan. Al Sharpton
I’ve made my own music, and the way I’ve always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there. Evan Rachel Wood
I’ve done some luxury flying, which is brilliant. It has only happened once or twice, but it was nice because flying is the worst part of the holiday. But then again, if the plane crashes, you’re still dead. For that much money I’d want a little capsule that whizzed me off to safety if it was going to crash. Karl Pilkington
Freedom is not an instantaneous holiday, as we once dreamed. It is a road. A long road. We know this now. Svetlana Alexievich
Yes, for me Hanukkah is very sad. But the life force that’s in me makes it a wonderful holiday, too. Ruth Westheimer
In 1924, I became a Dozent in Gottingen and worked out the quantum mechanics during a holiday stay on Heligoland. Werner Heisenberg
I do think that Thanksgiving is a very nice holiday because it’s all about saying thank you; it’s being thankful. Jacob Tremblay
I’ve just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I’ll tell you what, never again. Tim Vine
When it comes to economic opportunity, environmental stewardship or just our ‘Live Free or Die’ quality of life, Every Day Is a Holiday in the great state of New Hampshire. Chris Sununu
I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It’s a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart. Roisin Murphy
The King Holiday is a celebration of many things – his pursuit of racial justice, his commitment to non-violent resistance, his belief in service and doing for others. But you might also call it the other Labor Day. Tom Perez
Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country’s first president? The Ultimate Warrior
Every Christmas now for years, I have found myself wondering about the point of the celebration. As the holiday has become more ecumenical and secular, it has lost much of the magic that I remember so fondly from childhood. Whitley Strieber
Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. William James
Thanksgiving Day, the holiday, has a certain feeling to it. The Ultimate Warrior
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. P. J. O’Rourke
The Covid-19 pandemic has been great for the bosses, by which I mean the CEOs, the senior lawyers, the bankers and the top civil servants. They have been able to work from home – or from their holiday retreats – increasing their quality of life and saving a fortune on commuting and all its associated costs. Touker Suleyman
I don’t 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. Mary Roach
For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season. Darren Criss
To give back during a holiday where it’s all about giving and being thankful – I’ve always been blessed to have a meal on my plate during Thanksgiving – and to spread that feeling to someone else’s family, it’s special. This is something that is truly important to me. Tobias Harris
Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept. J. C. Ryle
It takes me a long time to unwind when I’m on holiday – at least three or four days. Monica Galetti
Christmas comes during a season when the Earth is in its darkest time. It’s a holiday for the family and for everyone. Melissa Etheridge
Black Friday is not another bad hair day in Wall Street. It’s the term used by American retailers to describe the day after the Thanksgiving Holiday, seen as the semi-official start of Christmas shopping season. Evan Davis
I feel so lucky to have both my parents and we all get together at Mum and Dad’s at least every fortnight and try to go away on holiday together once a year. When it was Mum and Dad’s 50th wedding anniversary, we all went to Devon, which was fabulous. Liza Tarbuck
Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination. Vidal Sassoon
I’m the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska – somewhere where no one knows you, and you’re in a band situation just playing music. George Harrison
During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas. Nancy Pearcey
For me, normal means freedom to live life as we choose, from cramming into packed planes to go on holiday to crowding into pubs for birthday parties. Claire Fox
People who read on holiday always have a better time because it’s total escapism, both physically and mentally. Jasmine Guinness
The empty room of someone who has gone to college, or is on holiday, is not much different from someone who has just died. We live in rooms. Then we don’t. Michael Rosen
We’ve not reached the promised land. We’re still wandering around, bumping into each other in the wilderness of ignorance and hate. That is why the King holiday is so important. Yolanda King
The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17. Joe Elliott
When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I’ve done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that. Karl Pilkington
It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. Christopher Hitchens
Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity – these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions. Ben Hecht
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had ‘bikini’d’ me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy. Amanda Burton
Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap. Simone de Beauvoir
Thanksgiving is America’s favourite holiday, and a brilliant piece of personal as well as patriotic calendrical invention. Linda Colley
While my brother Sultan and I studied in England, my mother Naseem Banu would take us for a holiday to Europe in our vacations which began sometime in July and from there, she would always bring us to India without fail. She was insistent that we never lose track of our Indian values. Saira Banu
Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven’t had fourteen pairs in my life. Brian Clough
Galentine’s Day is the day before Valentine’s Day. People sometimes think, ‘Oh, it’s a replacement for Valentine’s Day.’ But it’s not. You can celebrate Galentine’s and Valentine’s. And it comes from the sitcom ‘Parks And Recreation’… Amy Poehler’s character created this holiday because she wanted a day to celebrate her girlfriends. Kayleen Schaefer
There’s this great thing called the ‘Chitlin’ Circuit,’ which I started my shows on and back in the day when, you know, Ray Charles and Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington, they couldn’t get into white establishments, so they went on this circuit and toured. They were huge stars in their own community, you know, and that’s pretty much my same story. Tyler Perry
I look my best when I’m totally free, on holiday, walking on the beach. Rosamund Pike
Let’s assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington – as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the ‘Every President Gets a Trophy’ ethos? Ben Shapiro
I’m a really big fan of all things macabre in general; Halloween happens to be my favorite holiday. Dove Cameron
I vividly remember a conversation I had many years ago in 1974, which marked a turning point in my leadership journey. I was sitting at a Holiday Inn with my friend, Kurt Campmeyer, when he asked me if I had a personal growth plan. I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know you were supposed to have one. John C. Maxwell
Devon holds a special place in my heart. As a child, I normally went on holiday to Bantham and have lots of happy memories from my time there. I used to catch sand eels in the early morning and go fishing for bass throughout the day. I remember a gull taking my bait. Richard Branson
When checking in at an airport, no matter how rude the check-in person is to you, always smile and be nice because you don’t know what kind of day they’ve had. You are going on holiday and they’re stuck wherever they are. Be nice to them because they can re-route your baggage to wherever they feel like. Ross Kemp
If it’s not messy and it doesn’t drip over the sides, it’s not a holiday hot chocolate -it’s just an average hot chocolate. Alex Guarnaschelli
I love the holidays – any holiday – but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens. Matthew Gray Gubler
For our country and people, October 10 is a meaningful revolutionary holiday when they celebrate the birth anniversary of the genuine vanguard of the revolution, its militant General Staff, which has taken responsibility for their destiny and leads them. Kim Jong-un
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected. Jimmy Cannon
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice. Dave Barry
Billie Holiday, Aretha Franklin. Now, they are so subtle, they can milk you with two notes. They can make you feel like they told you the whole universe. But I don’t know that yet. All I got now is strength. Maybe if I keep singing, maybe I’ll get it. Janis Joplin
A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat! Alan King
My great hero is Billie Holiday, and I’ve always wanted to do an album of standards with a piano-led quartet. Tim Curry
My favorite holiday memory was sitting at home all day in my pajamas during winter break for school watching a bunch of old Christmas movies like ‘Jack Frost’ and ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ with my siblings and parents. Becky G
Aldo was the big strength, the big power. He would always scream at us because we took a holiday and he never would. He was a tornado. Maurizio Gucci
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
I don’t think any other holiday embraces the food of the Midwest quite like Thanksgiving. There’s roasted meat and mashed potatoes. But being here is also about heritage. Cleveland is really a giant melting pot – not only is my family a melting pot, but so is the city. Michael Symon
I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me. Marcus Samuelsson
If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it’s Halloween. We haven’t taken it away from kids. We’ve just expanded it so that the kid in adults can enjoy it, too. Cassandra Peterson
Me and my sister made up a game called ‘Milky Cow’. We were on holiday in France when I was 12, and there was a kid who had bovine features, and every time we went past her, we’d say, ‘There’s Milky Cow’. Greg Davies
Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend’s birthday is July fifth, so it’s always been a favorite holiday. It’s all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks. Hilarie Burton
Thanksgiving is really a holiday that allows us all, if only for a day, to stop what we’re doing and consider the wonderful people in our lives and the opportunities we have, and have had. Trish Regan
I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. Fred Rogers
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw
There’s something about a holiday that isn’t all about how much money you spend. Hilarie Burton
I loved Billie Holiday more than any other person other than myself on the stage. Yeah, I do. Abbey Lincoln
‘Elf’ has become this big holiday movie, and I remember running around the streets of New York in tights saying, ‘This could be the last movie I ever make,’ and I could never have predicted that it’d become such a popular film. Will Ferrell
I love spending time with my family and friends during the holidays, and my favorite holiday tradition would be the pozole that my mom makes almost every Christmas. It’s the best! Becky G
Los Angeles feels empty and overrated. I struggle with it as a holiday destination. It’s the sort of place where you need to know some locals, otherwise it just feels so empty. Russell Howard
My favorite holiday memory is making gingerbread houses. It’s something I’ve done with my children since they were born. Yolanda Hadid
Holiday shopping can be tough: sometimes you don’t know what to get a person; sometimes you really do just want to help those in need. Kayleen Schaefer
I look forward to the holiday season every year. Cate Blanchett
Any holiday seems like a guilt trip. Rajkumar Hirani
I work everyday, but every day is a holiday for me because I enjoy my work. Sudha Murty
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday. Barbra Streisand
If you’re thinking of coming to America, this is what it’s like: you’ve got your Comfort Inn, you’ve got your Best Western, and you’ve got your Red Lobster where you eat. Everybody’s very fat, everybody’s very stupid and everybody’s very rude – it’s not a holiday programme, it’s the truth. Jeremy Clarkson
If you think Independence Day is America’s defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. Tony Snow
I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction – especially autobiographies and biographies. I’ve read ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I’m totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years. Richard Branson
A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses. Lee Haney