National Holiday

National holiday may refer to:

  • A National Day, in which a country celebrates its independence, establishment or an otherwise significant event.
  • A public holiday, which can be celebrated across a nation. That means that some nations can have more than one National Day.

Famous quotes containing the words national and/or holiday:

    “The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
    —Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

    “You know, when these New Negroes have their convention—that is going to be the chairman of the Committee on Unending Agitation. Race, race, race!... Damn, even the N double A C P takes a holiday sometimes!”
    —Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)