Quotes About School Holidays

#1. I carried on acting during school holidays and was all set to go to drama school when I was offered my first professional job appearing in 'King David' with Richard Gere.

Gina Bellman

#2. I spent a lot of time at my grandparents in the school holidays, and the only books in the house were a copy of the Bible and Agatha Christie's 'Murder at the Vicarage.' I developed a taste for murder mysteries and then later discovered libraries, second-hand bookshops, and jumble sales.

Val McDermid

#3. I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

Denise Van Outen

#4. She left the event with gold medals in the all-around, vault, floor and uneven bars. She also nabbed the silver medal on the balance beam.

Christine Dzidrums

#5. Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die.

C.S. Lewis

#6. It wasn't all that different from any particularly demanding boarding school, except that of course nobody ever went home for the holidays and we had a lot of brain surgery.

Kage Baker

#7. When I was out for the Christmas Holidays in school, I would go skiing up to the mountains and there they had Santa on a sled. Pulled by horses and other reindeer, it was a very, very picturesque time and that struck me very emphatically then and has remained with me all this time.

William Shatner

#8. I've been asked by lots of people, "What happens if you do kill yourself?" They want to know about what it would be like for other people around you, like the person who would find your body, the other kids at school, whoever would have to clean up the blood, what your family holidays would be like.

Albert Borris

#9. In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.

Patrick White

#10. The way to really create justice for workers in America is to create job growth.

Thomas G. Stemberg

#11. One lesson I learned from 'The Monstrumologist' was never to get too attached to your own characters. That's harder in practice than in theory. At the end of the third book - which coincided with the end of my contract - I was an emotional wreck. I mourned Will Henry and Warthrop.

Rick Yancey

#12. I had done a fair bit of traveling during the holidays in my school days with my guitar and discovered that I could live on it. Admittedly, I traveled with a sleeping bag but I could always find somewhere to lay my head.

Jeremy Irons

#13. Holidays are also an opportunity for kids to unlearn every good habit they've learned during the rest of the year. They don't go to school. They get to stay up past their bedtime. They get candy and presents for doing nothing. Childhood utopia.

Jim Gaffigan

#14. Most of the blame goes to the director, who seems to have picked up her staging secrets from the school's crossing guard.

David Sedaris

#15. Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Walter Lippmann

#16. It was the first day of the spring holidays: three weeks of no school. I woke early, thrilled by the prospect of endless days to fill however I wished. I would read. I would explore.

Neil Gaiman

#17. To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Dag Hammarskjold

#18. God orders us to believe and trust in his goodness, but at the same time, we should never test him. We must take advantage of opportunities that God gives us. If we don't, we aren't living according to his plan. But we must continue to maintain our faith and hope in God.

Martin Luther

#19. You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.

Gerald Nicosia

#20. I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

Tony Gilroy

#21. I kissed the boys and made them cry ... in ecstasy.

Hal Duncan

#22. I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.

Richard C. Armitage

#23. My dad owned a tiny little shop and we never had any family holidays or anything like that, so I was sent to boarding school as a means of control more than anything I think.

Thighpaulsandra

#24. A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.

Jonathan Sacks

#25. I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went to Italy. My mum was determined I was going to go to a good school. My mum was an absolute grafter. A real grafter. I got my work ethic from her.

Imelda Staunton

#26. I could be a school teacher and be rich. It has nothing to do with your money; it has to do with your knowledge. If I was a school teacher, I would be ten times richer because I have more time off! They get the summer off, holidays off, weekends off.

Robert Kiyosaki

#27. We were happy. We deserved to be happy. We would remain happy for the rest of our lives. Because I had my monster. And he had me. And together, we had everything.

Pepper Winters

#28. Dear V.,
I'm a terrible actor and this city is fucking freezing and I miss you.
- A.

Emily St. John Mandel