Top 100 Quotes About Vacation
#1. So I got stuck doing make-up work during spring vacation. ...I guess things could have gotten worse. But I wasn't there to visit."
-Tokidoki
Shinobu Takayama
#2. The reality is that the fewer children a congregation has, the more important an outreach ministry for children and families like Vacation Bible School is.
Dr. Steve R. Parr
#3. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin
#4. We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, every seven weeks, and schedule an adult-only vacation every seven months.
Summer Sanders
#5. To him, I am the cheap pair of sunglasses you buy on vacation because you know you won't care if you break or lose them
Shaun David Hutchinson
#6. No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
#7. There is no vacation for a writer! Every moment of his life is work!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. Instead of wondering when you're next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life that you don't need to escape from.
Seth Godin
#9. In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!
Carlo Collodi
#10. Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention ... that antenna is always out there.
Bob Newhart
#11. The standard clauses of the American dream only included two weeks of vacation a year.
Jeff Deck
#12. Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time.
Bill Gates
#13. A good vacation is over when you begin to yearn for your work.
Morris Fishbein
#14. Every summer my father gave us this incredible vacation, in the Philippines, Thailand, Europe - wherever.
Marie-Chantal Claire
#16. I started to roll over for more sleep but heard a rooster crowing and then became aware we are on vacation and there is no point in sleeping.
Robert M. Pirsig
#17. I absolutely believe that when one goes on vacation, it should be pure decadence.
Crystal Renn
#18. The American Dream is ownership ... a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business
Mario Batali
#19. Every once in a while you must go to cash, take a break, take a vacation. Don't try to play the market all the time. It can't be done, too tough on the emotions.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore
#20. The breaks you take from work pay you back manifold when you return because you come back with a fresher mind and newer thinking. Some of your best ideas come when you're on vacation.
Gautam Singhania
#21. If there's a national-team player, he has to do extra work. He has to do extra weeks, and he can't go on vacation even if he says: 'Well, but I'm supposed now to have six weeks off.' If he comes and says that, then I give him a hug and say: 'Have fun the six weeks, but don't come back here.'
Jurgen Klinsmann
#22. The first axiom of the family vacation is that someone, possibly everyone, will get sick.
Marni Jackson
#23. My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation.
Kendrick Lamar
#24. Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.
Clarence Darrow
#25. The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil.
Jeff Bezos
#26. In L.A relationships don't last. You go on a vacation and break up by the time you come home. Thank God for one-hour photo, so you can see your vacation photos while you're still in the relationship.
Judy Carter
#27. I suddenly remember how different I am from most of the kids here. Nobody would have to drag me or my brothers to the Bahamas; we'd swim there if we could. For us, a family vacation is staying at a local hotel with a swimming pool for a weekend.
Angie Thomas
#28. There's something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.
Jennifer Hudson
#29. It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.
Mark Twain
#30. Yellowstone, of all the national parks, is the wildest and most universal in its appeal... Daily new, always strange, ever full of change, it is Nature's wonder park. It is the most human and the most popular of all parks. -Yellowstone Park for Your Vacation (circa 1920s)
Susan Rugh
#31. I do hear about these actors who go on vacations to Bali for three months, and their agents are banging their heads against a wall trying to find their clients - but that's not me. I'm working hard every day. Enjoy your vacation.
Erin Cummings
#32. I can't be bought with money. If someone calls me and asks me to work for them for three or four years, and they'll pay me well to build their vacation home, I ask myself why I should work three or four years on something like that.
Peter Zumthor
#33. Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
Jerry Smith
#34. I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
Maeve Binchy
#35. It's great that people are basically spending their two weeks of vacation to come out and be with us in some weird part of the world. And I think we owe it to them to take 'em to some cool places.
Jeff Ament
#36. I go to Florida sometimes for vacation. I actually really like Florida. It's a weird place, it's surreal. It's so close, but you feel like you're in another world or on an island.
Jemima Kirke
#37. In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to Greece, but flights had been halted. Instead, we ended up on a tiny island off the coast of Georgia.
Brad Thor
#38. I always feel a little blue when a fun trip is over. The planning and anticipation of a vacation, and then the trip itself, are always so much fun. Getting home and back to real life always makes me feel a little empty.
Karey White
#39. Like Salvador Dali's paintings of watches melting in the sand, time wanders at its own curious pace whenever you're on vacation in a foreign country.
Laurie Nadel
#40. Here in Los Angeles, school's out for summer. For thousands of school kids, this is the first week of summer vacation. And for thousands of parents, it's the first week of hell.
Craig Ferguson
#41. Maybe I don't have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don't we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?
Ray Bradbury
#42. i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
don't come here with expectations
and try to make a vacation out of me
Rupi Kaur
#43. If you can't take the time for a vacation right now, or even a night out with friends, put something on the calendar - even if it's a month or a year down the road. Then whenever you need a boost of happiness, remind yourself about it.
Daniel Kahneman
#44. You'll be fine. You didn't even break anything. You messed up your knuckles and your brain freaked out a little and basically you just fell asleep for three days. I don't call that an injury," he says. "I call that a god- damn vacation.
Tahereh Mafi
#45. I'm a big believer in living life as an extended working vacation.
Victoria Moran
#46. Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.
Bill Murray
#47. I grew up so poor in Austria that we never took a vacation with my family.
Wolfgang Puck
#48. Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
Dana Plato
#50. A happy and productive person is one who understands that his or her job is not the purpose of his or her life. Go on vacation, use up your sick days, ask for a temporary leave-of-absence - anything that allows you to recharge your batteries away from your typical routine. No leave, no life.
Del Suggs
#51. Before our vacation, the idea of keeping a diary and scribbling my thoughts on paper seemed silly and stuck-up. And besides it was usually something I thought only unhappy girls did.
Henry H. Roth
#52. Is there an option C? Take a vacation somewhere sunny, and drink a lot of rum until the world unfucks itself?
Devon Monk
#53. Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one ... This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#54. It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.
Celine Dion
#55. I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
Parker Stevenson
#56. I want to be a writer you can always depend on for a good read during your vacation, during your flight, during a time in your life when you want to forget the world around you.
Jeff Abbott
#57. What is Hell like?" I blurted out before I could stop myself. Damn my curiosity.
"You've never been there?" He eyed me suspiciously. Yeah, I went to Hell every summer for vacation.
Alycia Linwood
#58. Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
Henry Ward Beecher
#59. For a while we pondered whether to take a vacation or get a divorce. We decided that a trip to Bermuda is over in two weeks, but a divorce is something you always have.
Woody Allen
#60. Buying experience such as going out to dinner or taking a vacation increases our own wellbeing and the wellbeing of others. Experiences last while material purchases fade.
Tom Rath
#61. I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.
Jon Tester
#62. Most people spend more time planning a one-week vacation than they spend planning their life.
Michael Hyatt
#63. When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.
Sophie Hannah
#64. There is a life lived on long journeys that cannot emanate within the walls of a two-week annual vacation.
Luke Maguire Armstrong
#65. I am a vacation. I am the Caribbean, and a fruity drink and a sunburn and a break from real life. But I am not real life. No one lives in the Caribbean. No one wants a fruity drink every day. I'd rather be water: necessary.
Corey Ann Haydu
#66. After I had done the first 'Pirates' movie and 'Secret Window,' I went on vacation to escape with my kiddies and my girl, and someone said that there was an island down the road for sale. I said, 'Oh well, let's go see it.' I looked at it, I walked on it, and I was done. It had to be.
Johnny Depp
#67. Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.
Alison Sweeney
#68. My favorite place for taking a vacation is found in my library.
Debasish Mridha
#69. One would have to say "in the end everything is a gag, etc" because everything is infinitely more than just a gag. The same applies to other "is"-statements such as "Laughter is an instant vacation"
Alfred Korzybski
#70. Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.
Frederick Lenz
#71. One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
Oksana Baiul
#72. NCL ... stands to achieve greater success under the Carnival Corp. umbrella, which will provide NCL with economies of scale, greater access to capital, marketing and operating expertise and stronger credibility in the leisure and vacation industry.
Micky Arison
#74. It turned out that looking forward to a vacation or event provided even more happiness than the event itself.
Tom Rath
#75. Harry was particularly keen to avoid trouble with his aunt and uncle at the moment, as they were already in an especially bad mood with him, all because he'd received a telephone call from a fellow wizard one week into the school vacation.
J.K. Rowling
#76. A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.
Rob Gronkowski
#77. But ... I know your heart was in the right place - even if your brain had clearly gone on vacation for the afternoon.
Shannon Messenger
#78. Tucker: You guys going to Milwaukee? Guy: Yes sir, heading home after a vacation. Tucker: Did you know there are midgets in Milwaukee? [The man and his wife are silent and confused.] Tucker: HUNDREDS OF THEM!
Tucker Max
#79. I would say I'm very surprised it went down the way it did. I thought it was a possibility, but when I left for vacation, I definitely didn't think I would come back as not a member of the Titans. But we had a difference of the opinion somewhere along the way.
Matt Hasselbeck
#80. Expanding your notion of fun beyond a two-week vacation in Maui increases the chances you'll have more of it.
Karen Karbo
#81. Really I think I like who I'm becomin.. There's times where I might do it just to do it like it's nothin. It's times where I might blow like 50k on a vacation for all my soldiers just to see the looks on all their faces, all it took was patience
Drake
#82. When pressed to tell people how I got myself into my current nepotism-gone-bad situation, I like to describe it as a mini-breakdown. The prefix makes all the difference. It makes it sound more like a vacation than a condition best treated with medication and art therapy.
Jill A. Davis
#83. Vacation is the break from work, but work is the break from Vacation.
Me
#84. One of the best things about being [joyfully] retired is the freedom to travel when I want. When my son and daughter-in-law asked me to stay at their house for a week to house-sit while they were away on vacation, I had the freedom to do it.
Helen A. Rosburg
#85. Even on vacation, Rihanna's easy breezy chic is not complete without a red lip.
Derek Blasberg
#86. My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.
Gary Allan
#87. No," moaned Tom in despair. "School. School straight on ahead! Why, why do dime stores show things like that in windows before summer's even over! Ruin half the vacation!
Ray Bradbury
#89. I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.
Shay Mitchell
#90. It was a year for the ages, like 79, like 1346, to name just a few. Forget the scythe, Goddamn it, I needed a broom or a mop. And I needed a vacation.
Markus Zusak
#91. Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
Karen O
#92. I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.
Maynard Webb
#94. Unleash your TRAVEL BEAST ... explore the world. It's time to begin your next adventure! No man needs a vacation so much as the person who has just had one.
Elbert Hubbard
#95. You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson
#96. Australia basically holds the copyright on "weird ecosystem." The only place where you're going to find weirder things is at the bottom of the ocean, and no one suggests that you go there for a fun family vacation.)
Seanan McGuire
#97. The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.
Tom Welling
#98. When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
Vince McMahon
#99. I always bring my kids vacation souvenirs printed in Comic Sans, so they know I love them but not unconditionally.
Ken Jennings
#100. I want to have a good vacation before I have to go back home and start my 'big girl job'," Lori said, nose deep into the visitor's guide, but still making the air quotations around her words.
Lindsay Chamberlin
