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Quotes About Vacation

A vacation, after all, merely rewards work. Vagabonding justifies it.
~ Rolf Potts
exquisitely intimate Marmottan. Mathilda rented a car, and they drove out of town to visit Claude Monet's home and gardens at Giverny and the port town of Honfleur, the site of so many Impressionist paintings. The vacation was centered on art. They visited the Normandy landing beaches and stood on the cliff looking across the English Channel, imagining the boatloads of Allied forces ready to storm the beaches.
~ Luanne Rice
Era muita felicidade para uma só hora. Um beijo e férias!
~ Machado de Assis
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Summer vacation is a topic seldom mentioned in American educational debates. It is considered a permanent and inviolate feature of school life, like high school football or the senior prom.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.
~ Shannon L. Alder
My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
~ Vanessa L. Williams
There is an old Arabic story about a man who hears Death is coming for him, so he sneaks away to Samarra. And when he gets there, he finds Death in the market, and Death says, "You know, I just felt like going on vacation to Samarra. I was going to skip you today, but how lucky you showed up to find me!" And the man is taken after all.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
Instead, we are our own jailers. We are prisoners of our own insecurity (Will I still have a job if I take two solid weeks of vacation?), pride (How can people get along without me?), fantasies (What if I miss an email telling me I've won the lottery?), and cultural capitulation (This is just how the world works now, isn't it?). For us, the door to a better life is only locked from the inside.
~ Andy Crouch
While he was at Lichfield, in the college vacation of the year 1729, he felt himself overwhelmed with an horrible hypochondria, with perpetual irritation, fretfulness, and impatience; and with a dejection, gloom, and despair, which made existence misery. From this dismal malady he never afterwards was perfectly relieved; and all his labours, and all his enjoyments, were but temporary interruptions of its baleful influence.
~ Samuel Johnson
Should I pack a bathing suit?
~ Sarah Mlynowski
Atostogos suteiks man nauj? j?g? gr?žti prie savo neurasteniško gyvenimo.
~ Saul Bellow
FullContact, a Denver software company, gives employees a $7,500 bonus if they follow three rules: "1. You have to go on vacation, or you don't get the money. 2. You must disconnect. 3. You can't work while on vacation.
~ Arianna Huffington
Hoi, dit is Tirza. Ik ben er even niet, maar laat maar een leuk bericht achter
~ Arnon Grunberg
Sometimes you just want to get away and be normal for a few days. It's a treat to travel without your racket bag.
~ Eugenie Bouchard
I always spend my summer in Ghana. I don't go anywhere else.
~ Michael Essien
I love going to the Algarve and playing golf.
~ Harry Kane
I am a big fan of Bournemouth, having enjoyed many happy hours on its sandy beach and crazy golf course.
~ Victoria Coren Mitchell
How long's your vacation? A year. Maybe longer. A year? What did you do? Win the lottery? Most americans we met on the road, or at least the ones without nose rings, had a hard time fathoming the idea of a year's travel. Australians and Germans would nod in of course approval. Our country men would fixate on language barriers or some hideous tropical disease. They'd talk about the nightmare scenario - a Third World appendectomy and not being able to tell the doctor to use clean needles.
~ Franz Wisner
Every winter my wife and I take a week off and go to a resort in Florida.
~ John C. Bogle
For sure, Potrero Chico is a super nice winter vacation climbing area. It's really convenient to fly into Monterrey, one of the nicer cities in Mex, and get a taxi to Potero. Then you can just live in the camping area and walk everywhere. It's muy tranquilo, as they say there.
~ Alex Honnold
It's not unusual for people to like Florida in the winter. I'm not a great tourist. I like coming down to work.
~ Israel Horovitz
The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
~ Clarence Day
I wish I don't tan. I dread the thought of shooting on the beach.
~ Priyamani