Quotes about Vacation

Few people know how to rest these days. Even on vacation, many people rush to cram in as much as they can before returning to their jobs, where they spend twice as much energy catching up on the work and mail that has piled up in their absence. Many of us need vacations just to rest from our vacations! Perhaps we have been looking for rest in the wrong places.

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.'

Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.

I grew up in a city, I'm a city person - I go on holiday and I'm bored.

I like to go to Mauritius on holiday.

My daughter is a horseback rider, so I try to watch her ride; we take holidays together.

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

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

Summer vacation is the time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.

There are three good reasons to be a teacher - June, July, and August.

There is no vacation, no experience, no dream home, and no thing outside of God that can bring rest in the essence of who you are. Your soul will be restless until it finds rest in Him.

The Deuteronomy reason for Sabbath-keeping is that our ancestors in Egypt went for four hundred years without a vacation (Deuteronomy 5:15). Never a day off. The consequence: they were no longer considered persons but slaves. Hands. Work units. Not persons created in the image of God but equipment for making brick and building pyramids. Humanity was defaced. — Eugene Peterson