Vacation Quotes - Page 27

• That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things.

  Don DeLillo

  People, Relax, Routine

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.276, Pan Macmillan

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• I always try to have a vacation.

  Sophia Loren

  Trying

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• There was nothing like a Saturday - unless it was the Saturday leading up to the last week of school and into summer vacation. That of course was all the Saturdays of your life rolled into one big shiny ball.

  Nora Roberts

  Summer, School, Balls

  Nora Roberts (1998). “Rising Tides”, p.23, Penguin

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• Here's a news flash for the ladies: for every one of you who thinks we all want a girl like Angelina Jolie, all skinny elbows and angles, the truth is, we'd rather curl up with someone like Charlotte - a woman who's soft when a guy wraps his arms around her; a woman who might have a smear of flour on her shirt the whole day and not notice or care, not even when she goes out to meet with the PTA; a woman who doesn't feel like an exotic vacation but is the home we can't wait to come back to.

  Jodi Picoult

  Girl, Women, Home

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The average food item on a U.S. grocery shelf has traveled farther than most families go on their annual vacations.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Animal, Average, Vegetables

  Barbara Kingsolver (2010). “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: Our Year of Seasonal Eating”, p.4, Faber & Faber

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• 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

  People, Hollywood, Way

  "Michael Jackson-Turned White From Disease-Vitiligo! Tragic!". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, ireport.cnn.com. February 10, 1993.

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• My work is like my vacation, so in a way every day is like Saturday.

  Ludacris

  Way, Saturday Morning, Saturday

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• The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

  Nhat Hanh

  Tired, Purpose, Goes On

  "Exclusive Interview With Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 21, 2010.

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• After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Holiday, Busy, All The Best

  Kenneth Grahame (2016). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.5, Xist Publishing

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• Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

  Bob Dylan

  Travel, Memories, Care

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What do I want to take home from my summer vacation? Time. The wonderful luxury of being at rest. The days when you shut down the mental machinery that keeps life on track and let life simply wander. The days when you stop planning, analyzing, thinking and just are. Summer is my period of grace.

  Ellen Goodman

  Life, Summer, Home

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• If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Comedians are never really on vacation because you're always at attention... that antenna is always out there.

  Bob Newhart

  Comedian, Attention, Comedy

  "Bob Newhart Set For Las Vegas Show". Interview with Scott Gulbransen, states.aarp.org. November 3, 2016.

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• My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer.

  Gary Allan

  Drinking, Sleep, Beer

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• We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations - we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Relationship, Marriage

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• Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound.

  Walter Annenberg

  Too Much, Too Much Work, One Thing

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• I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Change, Escaping

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 09, 2015

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• Sometimes you’re just the sweetest thing. Like Christmas, summer vacation, and a brand-new puppy rolled into one.

  Haruki Murakami

  Summer, Puppy, Sometimes

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• Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Faith, Children, Book

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  Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

  Betty White

  Funny, Jealousy, Humorous

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