Top 330 Vacation Quotes

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I’m not insane – I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

Every summer my father gave us this incredible vacation, in the Philippines, Thailand, Europe – wherever.

One summer vacation, I carried water to the town market to sell it, and I used some of the money I made to help a neighbour.

You take a vacation to a place like Thailand and you’re ready for the excitement of something new and foreign. But when you’re working 14-hour days, all you want is something familiar to ground you. And there’s just nothing there.

The idea of a perfect vacation is not working or not having to work and having no appointments.

I was single for six years and during those six years I went back to college and got my degree in Social Work and then… while I was single… Barney came here to Portsmouth on vacation.

I’m a Catholic, but I used to love going to Vacation Bible School with my fundamentalist friends.

I know what kind of books I read on vacation, and it is not necessarily ‘Diplomacy’ by Henry Kissinger. No disrespect to that book; I have read that book. But not on spring break.

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’

I believe that if everybody spent their next vacation in a community in America with people they didn’t agree with, they’d probably leave feeling a little more comfortable about the country they live in.

I know I’m never going to be as successful as my dad, but I get bored doing nothing. I couldn’t go from vacation to vacation and have no motivation.

The Democrats’ anti-business economic policies would mean less money and fewer jobs in America, which inevitably means fewer opportunities to go on vacation too.

Technology has really created new markets. For instance, Airbnb has created a high demand for executive short-term and vacation properties. Even 10 years ago, it was hard to find tenants without newspaper ads.

I did what any good full-time working mother would do and left my screaming toddler with my husband for three weeks and convinced Comedy Central to send me on an international work vacation.

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.

Walk away from anyone who is unduly focused on vacation and compensation. It’s a sign of potential trouble. No matter how talented you are, if you don’t really want to work at TOMS, you’ll never work out here.

Mina loves Hawaii, and she goes there a lot for vacation.

At the moment I have my family coming out with me on the road. We have our own vehicle and it’s more like a family vacation. I just stop, do some gigs, and take off. It’s a lot more fun now with the family.

If I have time and the chance to travel in the Philippines, I would like to go to an island which is not popular to have a good vacation – you know, just chilling out.

When you go all over the world for work, your dream vacation is your bedroom.

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.

Every Vacation movie didn’t just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.

I’m from Philadelphia, and I go to Philly a bunch throughout the holidays, which is my only time to see my family, so we get pretty festive around that time of year. It’s also the only time I have vacation.

When I step into the ring with someone, this has got to be their vacation spot, but my home turf. So I go the opposite side seven rounds doing the same thing. Skipping, skipping, skipping. Then I go seven rounds going both ways. Skip to the left, skip to the right.

We’ve all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn’t know it.

I went on holiday with my kids and I had to make the choice – a good vacation for me, or a good vacation for them. A good vacation for them is to be with other Swedish kids, so I chose that, but I had to say, you have to behave, because I can’t have a scene in the restaurant.

It’s something that’s almost taken for granted in sitcoms about white families. Like, ‘Oh, we’re going on a summer vacation!’ As if that’s something that everybody does.

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.

That always happens. I start working while on vacation.

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

My best vacation memory is getting barreled at the beach in Hawaii.

When the earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, I was on vacation in the Cayman Islands.

You know what, I’m happy to say that everything outside of ‘Dexter’ feels like a vacation, and I don’t mean to say anything negative about the show. It’s just a different kind of work. Emotionally it’s taxing and complicated, and that’s a great thing.

As an army marches on its stomach, I vacation on mine. And for that reason, among others, I found myself in holiday heaven in Singapore.

On vacation in Indonesia, I ran out of skin-colored zinc, so I used green, and locals called me Hulk.

Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion.

For me, the best vacation is just relaxing on the couch!

Every vacation was taking my brother and I to camp, whether it was football camp, wrestling camp, or whatever it was.

We see families making a vacation out of a NASCAR event. The average drive is 200 miles so they’re often going to spend a few days with us.

I’ve only read three books by Stephen King. When I was 10 I read ‘The Long Walk,’ one of his pseudonymous Bachman books. In my early 20s, while trapped on a family vacation, I read ‘The Dark Half,’ which taught me a word I have never forgotten: psychopomp. Now I have read ’11/22/63.’

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.

My life is scattered and busy. I think of my home as a resort. When I step through the door, I feel relaxed. I almost feel like I’ve taken a vacation.

I don’t know French at all. I took some lessons when I was younger but all I know are the numbers. I’ve been told basically everyone in Monaco speaks English because of it being a huge vacation spot so I’m excited about that. I might not need to learn French after all.

I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

Church was a requirement – there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

My treatment ended in March/April of ’08. It wasn’t until the end of that summer that I started to feel I wasn’t depressed. Even when I went on vacation to Saint Lucia, I was kind of depressed, even though it was such a beautiful place.

A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it.

I am a Chicagoan. I feel like I’ve simply been on vacation for 10 years in Los Angeles. But Chicago is a real place, and L.A. is a motel.

L.A. is a vortex. The weather there tricks you into thinking you’re on vacation, even when you’re working fourteen hours a day.

My family took a vacation to Universal Studios when I was really young. Me and my brother Richard – who’s also an actor – were both really intrigued by seeing the behind-the-scenes stuff of how films are made. We kind of begged our parents to get into acting.

I like to travel any chance I get, even if it’s just a local vacation to San Diego or Palm Springs or wherever. I just like to get out and do stuff and see the world.

Our lives are structured by our memories of events. Event X happened just before the big Paris vacation. I was doing Y in the first summer after I learned to drive. Z happened the weekend after I landed my first job. We remember events by positioning them in time relative to other events.

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.

My best vacation was renting a boat and motoring along the Adriatic, going along the Croatian coast, before it became so fashionable. I’ve also sailed around the Turkish islands, the Greek islands and Sicily.

I’d never had money growing up, and it’s never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.

I wasn’t into going to college for four years and that whole dorm thing. I had such an aversion to it. It’s an extended vacation, isn’t it?

It seems strange to say this, but it is true: Coming back to Vegas to work is like going on vacation for me.