VACATION QUOTES II
quotations about vacations
Altogether, I had derived little benefit from being in Balbec, for which reason I was all the more determined to come back one day. I felt I had spent too short a time there.
MARCEL PROUST
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower
The vacation paradox is the idea that vacations are just something else we're to mark off from our to-do list. But that's not what vacations are designed for. They are designed to be times of meaning and purpose. So when we take vacations, we should be strategic and intentional.
ED YOUNG
Outrageous, Contagious Joy: Five Big Questions to Help You Discover One Great Life
Though most tourists accepted the occasional comic misadventure, it was important to them that overall their vacation should be pleasant. When you spend money on a holiday you are essentially purchasing happiness: if you don't enjoy yourself you will feel defrauded.
ALISON LURIE
The Last Resort
Blessed be the man who invented vacations! Deeply as I am interested in education, much as I am attached to the young men whom Providence places under my instruction, and much as I find of interest in the sciences which it falls to my lot to teach, yet the annual return of the Summer vacation is always expected with pleasure and hailed with welcome.
LAWRENCE LARRABEE
The Ladies' Repository, December 1851
But besides Sundays I had a day at Easter, and a day at Christmas, with a full week in the summer to go and air myself in my native fields of Hertfordshire. This last was a great indulgence; and the prospect of its recurrence, I believe, alone kept me up through the year, and made my durance tolerable. But when the week came round, did the glittering fantom of the distance keep touch with me? Or rather was it not a series of seven uneasy days, spent in restless pursuit of pleasure, and a wearisome anxiety to find out how to make the most of them? Where was the quiet, where the promised rest? Before I had a taste of it, it was vanished. I was at the desk again, counting upon the fifty-one tedious weeks that must intervene before such another snatch would come.
CHARLES LAMB
Essays of Elia
Vacations are a time to stop our daily routines, take a break, rest, invite adventure, engage in easy conversations, and have fun. They provide an excellent space in which to connect with our higher awareness, our being, and those in our lives.
SUZANNE KYRA & NATHAN DERKSEN
Welcome Home to Yourself
What Dad means by "see" of course, is "drive past at 67 miles per hour." Dad feels it is a foolish waste of valuable vacation time to get out of the car and actually go look at an attraction.
DAVE BARRY
Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need
Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.
ANONYMOUS
Vacation
All I ever wanted
Vacation
Had to get away
Vacation
Meant to be spent alone.
THE GO-GO'S
"Vacation"
Vacations are designed to refresh the outlook of everyone. No matter how tired they may be when they return to work, vacationers have been refreshed emotionally and intellectually. Their effectiveness in their job has probably improved, and they are, generally speaking, better employees for the time off.
ROBERT J. FISCHER
Introduction to Security
Vacations are a proper reward to anyone who has worked hard throughout the year.
STEPHEN L. J. SMITH
Tourism Analysis: A Handbook
Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands -- and the rest of the year on the financial rocks.
SAM EWING
attributed, Release Your Inner Old Fart
Bad vacations ... are the travel version of dating a train wreck--often you get seduced by a profile you've seen only on a website.
MICHAEL HAINEY
"How Bad Vacations Are Like Bad Relationships", The Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2016
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
PHILIP JOHNSON
Esquire, December 1980
The funny thing about vacations are that you really enjoy the first couple of days, no cares in the world, then by the fourth day you begin to realize that it is coming to an end. By the end of your vacation you are so concerned with going back to work that you cannot even enjoy those last few days, it is always like that for me.
ROBERT L. GLOVER
The Patriot Acts
Vacations are a hiatus from one's normal work, living, and activity routine. As a mass phenomenon, they are relatively recent; it was not until the 1930s that most Americans could aspire to a vacation and even today a high percentage of Americans do not take them on a regular basis. How much time and money one has, where one vacations, and the activities in which one engages are functions of social class. The very term betrays its class origins; it derives from "vacate," and refers to the practice of wealthy Americans of abandoning their primary residences in the summer in favor of seasonal "cottages." (Europeans generally call such breaks "holidays," a remnant of medieval "holy days.")
ROBERT E. WEIR
Class in America: An Encyclopedia
Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future. Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence. Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.
MAYA ANGELOU
Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
Vacations brighten a man. They tend to make his work more attractive to him and to make him more attractive to his work.
HARRY VAN DEMARK
The Texas Magazine, July 1911
More than just yearly rituals in which we connect with friends and family, vacations are also exercises in self-definition. In affording time away from the demands of everyday life, vacations disclose what people choose to do rather than are required to do.
CINDY SONDIK ARON
Working at Play
Vacations are a great way for families to bond and spend time with one another. On top of bonding, it's been noted that people who take time off from work are more productive and enjoy a greater sense of health and wellness overall.
AJA MCCLANAHAN
"5 family vacations that won't break the bank", kare11, April 21, 2017