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Vacationers at the beach in Broadstairs, Kent, UK A vacation or holiday is a leave of absence from a regular occupation, or a specific trip or journey, usually for the purpose of recreation or tourism. People often take a vacation during specific holiday observances, or for specific festivals or celebrations. Vacations are often spent with friends or family[citation needed]. A person may take a longer break from work, such as a sabbatical, gap year, or career break. The concept of taking a vacation is a recent invention, and has developed through the last two centuries. Historically, the idea of travel for recreation was a luxury that only wealthy people could afford (see Grand Tour). In the Puritan culture of early America, taking a break from work for reasons other than weekly observance of the Sabbath was frowned upon. However, the modern concept of vacation was led by a later religious movement encouraging spiritual retreat and recreation. The notion of breaking from work periodically took root among the middle and working class. Toggle My BrainyQuote Agree By using our site, you agree to our use of cookies. More Info Favorite Search for quotes  Authors Topics Pictures Quote Of The Day Vacation Quotes Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!' Steven Wright Biography Author Profession: Comedian Nationality: American Born: December 6, 1955 Links Find on Amazon: Steven Wright Cite this Page: Citation Related Authors Groucho Marx, Robin Williams, George Carlin, Rodney Dangerfield, Mitch Hedberg, W. C. Fields, Joan Rivers, Lucille Ball Topics Babies, Baby, Beach, Day, Doing, Go, Here, Life, Little, Little Baby, Me, Need, Off, Over, Say, See, Still, Them, Vacation, Worked, You, Your BrainyQuote Desktop Home | About Us | Contact Us | Privacy | Terms BrainyQuote Store Language English | Español | Français Copyright © 2001 - 2017 BrainyQuote . Goodreads Search My Books Join Goodreads and meet your next favorite book! Sign Up Now Quotes About Vacation 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 Tags: absence, break, peace, rest, vacation, work like 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, The Wind in the Willows Tags: holiday, rest, vacation, wind-in-the-willows, work like No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. Elbert Hubbard Tags: vacation like When all else fails, take a vacation. Betty Williams Tags: fails, vacation like 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, Rising Tides (Chesapeake Bay Saga, #2) Tags: saturday, school, summer, vacation like Oh, shimmer down, Hunter. You're too testy. How many times have I've told you that you need to chill out, take a vacay. Disney World is really fun this time of the year. you should check it out. Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsession Tags: check-it-out, disney, disney-world, hunter, luc, shimmer, time, vacation, world, year like I don't want to go to Peru." How do you know? You've never been there." I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there. Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower Tags: conversaion, hell, peru, richard-paul-evans, sunflower, travel, trips, vacation like It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance. E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly Tags: adventure, adventures, airport, airports, excitement, experiences, flying, funny, i-love-to-travel, i-love-vacations, jet, journey, odd-humor, odd-observation, pollution, scents, travel, traveling, travelling, vacation like I think that when two people are able to weave that kind of invisible thread of understanding and sympathy between each other, that delicate web, they should not risk tearing it. It is too rare, and it lasts too short a time at best.... M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating Tags: love, vacation like When people went on vacation, they shed their home skins, thought they could be a new person. Aimee Friedman, Sea Change Tags: people, summer, vacation like I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go. Criss Jami, Killosophy Tags: art, creativity, exploration, gloom, happiness, joy, melancholy, music, peace, poetry, sadness, songwriting, transcendence, vacation like There was no Disney World then, just rows of orange trees. Millions of them. Stretching for miles And somewhere near the middle was the Citrus Tower, which the tourists climbed to see even more orange trees. Every month an eighty-year-old couple became lost in the groves, driving up and down identical rows for days until they were spotted by helicopter or another tourist on top of the Citrus Tower. They had lived on nothing but oranges and come out of the trees drilled on vitamin C and checked into the honeymoon suite at the nearest bed-and-breakfast. "The Miami Seaquarium put in a monorail and rockets started going off at Cape Canaveral, making us feel like we were on the frontier of the future. Disney bought up everything north of Lake Okeechobee, preparing to shove the future down our throats sideways. "Things evolved rapidly! Missile silos in Cuba. Bales on the beach. Alligators are almost extinct and then they aren't. Juntas hanging shingles in Boca Raton. Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo skinny-dipping off Key Biscayne. We atone for atrocities against the INdians by playing Bingo. Shark fetuses in formaldehyde jars, roadside gecko farms, tourists waddling around waffle houses like flocks of flightless birds. And before we know it, we have The New Florida, underplanned, overbuilt and ripe for a killer hurricane that'll knock that giant geodesic dome at Epcot down the trunpike like a golf ball, a solid one-wood by Buckminster Fuller. "I am the native and this is my home. Faded pastels, and Spanish tiles constantly slipping off roofs, shattering on the sidewalk. Dogs with mange and skateboard punks with mange roaming through yards, knocking over garbage cans. Lunatics wandering the streets at night, talking about spaceships. Bail bondsmen wake me up at three A.M. looking for the last tenant. Next door, a mail-order bride is clubbed by a smelly ma in a mechanic's shirt. Cats violently mate under my windows and rats break-dance in the drop ceiling. And I'm lying in bed with a broken air conditioner, sweating and sipping lemonade through a straw. And I'm thinking, geez, this used to be a great state. "You wanna come to Florida? You get a discount on theme-park tickets and find out you just bough a time share. Or maybe you end up at Cape Canaveral, sitting in a field for a week as a space shuttle launch is canceled six times. And suddenly vacation is over, you have to catch a plane, and you see the shuttle take off on TV at the airport. But you keep coming back, year after year, and one day you find you're eighty years old driving through an orange grove. Tim Dorsey, Florida Roadkill (Serge Storms, #1) Tags: disney-world, eccentricity, florida, history, humor, orange-groves, space-shuttle, speeches, tourism, tourist-brochures, vacation like My family never went skiing. My dad was afraid of heights and my mom felt that a vacation was only a vacation if it involved reading at least two books on the beach. Lisa Greenwald, Sweet Treats & Secret Crushes Tags: skiing, vacation like And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new. Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Tags: holidays, interesting, new, thinking, vacation like Eighth grade's a distant rumor, a tabled issue, and Dylan knows from experience that the summer between might change anything, everything. He and Mingus Rude too and even Arthur Lomb for that matter are released from the paint-by-numbers page of their schooldays, from their preformatted roles as truant or victim, freed to an unspoiled summer, that inviting medium for doodling in self-transformation. Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude Tags: 151, school, summer, vacation like Load More © 2017 Goodreads, Inc. · Terms Back to Top Home Sign In Switch to Desktop Help Listen with Audible Sponsored × Goodreads www.goodreads.com FREE - In Google Play VIEW