86 Movie Quotes about Holidays (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Dec 16, 2025

Memorable quotes about holidays, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 I've waited years for this. -Not countin' holidays either.

Hans Conried as Captain Hook in Peter Pan (1953)

2 Sisters! All Hallows Eve has become a night of frolic where children wear costumes and run amok.

Bette Midler as Winifred "Winnie" Sanderson; Winifred Winnie Sanderson; The Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus

3 Getting on the old commercial bandwagon, eh? Going after those big holiday bucks, huh?

Marnette Patterson as Lucy Van Pelt in It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown

4 And so time passes. Christmas comes and goes on schedule, and soon it is April...

Burl Ives as Sam The Snowman in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

5 But Mr. Corben had second thoughts. He gets so sentimental about the holidays.

Quote from Gremlins

6 But it was Thanksgiving. -It was what? -It was Thanksgiving. -Yeah, to you, but to me it's Thursday, right?

Talia Shire as Adrian Balboa; Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976)

7 Springtime needs someone to remind all the children of her special holiday. They can form the lovely habit of saying, Easter's here 'cause there's that rabbit.

Burl Ives as G.B. in The First Easter Rabbit (1976)

8 Now, you've probably wondered where holidays come from. If you haven't, I'd say it's time you begun!

Quote from The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

9 Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo! Now this is what I call the holiday spirit.

Jim Cummings as Winnie The Pooh, Tigger; Tigger in A Very Merry Pooh Year

10 They're holidays. Days of rest. There's lots of 'em. They mark 'em in red on the calendar so you can't miss 'em.

Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy in Holiday Inn (1942)