Wars Holiday Special

Famous quotes containing the words wars, holiday and/or special:

    Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlesly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the genius of renewal!
    Charles De Gaulle (1890–1970)

    I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.
    —Billie Holiday (1915–1959)

    ‘I mean to retire, where
    Nobody will have heard about my special skills
    And conversation is mainly about the wearther.
    —Eiléan Ní ChuilleanĂ¡in (b.1942)