Quotes About Vacation

Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cleaning lady. A holiday with Theo and the children represented two weeks of domestic and maternal drudgery.

One of the great appeals of Florida has always been the sense that the minute you get here you have permission to collapse.

I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.

I travel pretty regularly throughout the football season with Arsenal and England, but we don't really get to explore. In the summer months, I get about four or five weeks off, and then I'll jet away to either the south of France, Dubai, or Italy.

A good four to six weeks is about right for a proper break.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

I first saw the island of Noirmoutier when I was two weeks old. I think it's probably safe to say that I didn't fully appreciate it at the time; but I grew to love it as year after year I spent holidays there at my grandparents' cottage.

I've talked to a number of actors who have gained weight for roles, and just the sheer physical toll it puts on one's knees and shoulders - no one wants to do it again. I'm 57 and I don't think I'm going to take on any job or go on vacation again and see to it that I can gain 30 pounds.

The weird thing about the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop is that people come on vacation, and they bring stuff here to sell. They come here to see what we'll give them for it. Mostly, it's people from out of town.

Personally, when I go to Tulum, I prefer to be near the action but not in the midst of it.

I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.

I love going to San Diego.

Richard Nixon's conversation was "loaded with so many stories of all the foreign dignitaries he'd called upon in his career that he sounded like a guy who had pinioned his neighbors into watching his vacation slides.

Borrowers can already use bankruptcy to protect their vacation homes and investment properties, so why not their primary homes?

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

A vacation trip is one-third pleasure, fondly remembered, and two-thirds aggravation, entirely forgotten.

sitting on the beach in Florida, playing

When we understand that vacate is a form of the Latin verb meaning "be still," we can understand more fully what scholar Simon Tugwell meant when he said, "God invites us to take a holiday [vacation], to stop being God for a while, and let him be God."2

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.

Business owners can go on vacation forever because they own a system, not a job. If the B is on vacation, the money still comes in.

But they had found the Tansy Patch a charming place and were glad to go again. For the rest of the vacation there was hardly a day when they did not go up to it-- preferably in the long, smoky, delicious August evenings when the white moths sailed over the tansy plantation and the golden twilight faded into dusk and purple over the green slopes beyond and fireflies lighted their goblin torches by the pond.

Well, anyway," Joey went on blithely, "few years ago this guy calls me up. 'Joey,' he says, 'I got big problems. The vacation market is in the shits, I can't pay my mortgage. What should I do?' I say, 'How about you put some fucking pants on and get a job?' He says, 'I have no pants.' I say, 'I'll buy you some.' 'No,' he says. 'Fuck pants.

Hairwoman is torturing us with essays. Do English teachers spend their vacations dreaming up these things?

first impression is often just that, a quick snapshot that on its own merit is meaningless. After a vacation, in time, it gets lost in a shoe box full of them.