Summer Vacation Quotes:

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

topic: Summer, Home, Thinking, Summer Vacation, Vacation Time

Fact: Girls who are having a good sex thing stay in New York. The rest want to spend their summer vacations in Europe.

- Gail Parent

source: Gail Parent (2004). “Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York”, p.46, The Overlook Press

topic: Girl, Summer, Sex, Good Sex, Summer Vacation

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

- Mark Twain

topic: Summer, Successful, Vacation, Summer Vacation

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

- Haruki Murakami

topic: Summer, Vacation, Puppy, Summer Vacation

Here in Los Angeles, school's out for summer. For thousands of school kids, this is the first week of summer vacation. And for thousands of parents, it's the first week of hell.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Summer, School, Kids, Summer Vacation

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

topic: Summer, School, Vacation, Summer Vacation, Saturday Morning

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

- Malcolm Forbes

topic: Summer, Dad, Father, Controllers, Subscription

Thirteen states with a population less than that of New York State alone can prevent repeal [of prohibition] until Halley's comet returns. One might as well talk about a summer vacation on Mars.

- Clarence Darrow

topic: Summer, New York, Vacation, Thirteen, Summer Vacation

My father couldn't speak English when he went to the first grade and I had to work in a factory over Christmas and summer vacations. And I think that's the American way and one of the things that excites me about this race is that pretty much everything I've done I've started at the bottom and been able to finish at the top.

- George Pataki

topic: Summer, Father, Thinking, Summer Vacation

nothing like a few restful weeks contemplating the decline of civilization to restore the humors. What I did on my summer vacation was listen to a lot of people talk about the decline of practically everything - you could call it the leisure of the theory class.

- Molly Ivins

source: Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.200, Vintage

topic: Summer, Vacation, Civilization, Summer Vacation, Restful

I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.

- Kandyse McClure

source: "Actress Kandyse McClure on Living in Apartheid and Her Career". Interview with Bryan Cain-Jackson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 12, 2013.

topic: Summer, Mom, School, Summer Vacation

Death is only a summer vacation for us. We don't really change or lose what we have learned or who we have been when we die, because we are our karma.

- Frederick Lenz

source: Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

topic: Death, Karma, Summer, Summer Vacation

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

- Ernesto Bertarelli

topic: Summer, Father, Vacation, Sailboat, Summer Vacation

I was practically born and raised at 20th Century Fox studio, started to work there selling papers when I was around seven years old, and every summer vacation from school I would work in a various department at the studio. So I was an old-timer when I was 15.

- Richard D. Zanuck

source: "Richard Zanuck: 'Chocolate Factory' and Beyond". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. July 11, 2005.

topic: Summer, School, Vacation, Old Timers, Summer Vacation

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.

- Caitlin Flanagan

topic: Summer, Children, School, Summer Vacation, Private School

My teachers encouraged me to audition for some professional work during our summer vacation. I landed my first job. It was for the National Theatre Company's Mimika Pantomime troupe. I ended up touring with them for the next two years.

- Didi Conn

topic: Summer, Teacher, Jobs, Professional Work, Troupe

Most children, even very bright ones, need constant review and practice to truly own a concept in grammar, math or science. In schools today, on paper it may appear that kids are learning skills, but in reality they are only renting them, soon to forget what they've learned over the weekend or summer vacation.

- Rafe Esquith

source: Rafe Esquith (2009). “Lighting Their Fires: How Parents and Teachers Can Raise Extraordinary Kids in a Mixed-up, Muddled-up, Shook-up World”, p.22, Penguin

topic: Summer, Children, School, Summer Vacation

To the outside world, of course, this job is a cinch: 9 to 3, five days a week, two months' summer vacation with pay, all legal holidays, prestige and respect. My mother, for example, has the pleasant notion that my day consists of nodding graciously to the rustle of starched curtsies and a chorus of respectful voices bidding me good morning.

- Bel Kaufman

source: Bel Kaufman (2012). “Up the Down Staircase”, p.114, Open Road Media

topic: Summer, Mother, Morning, Summer Vacation, Nodding

Why are you standing here, Charlie Brown?" "I'm waiting for that little red-haired girl to walk by... I'm going to say hello to her and ask her how she's enjoying her summer vacation, and just sort of talk to her... You know..." "You'll never do it, Charlie Brown... You'll panic..." "Besides that, she's already walked by!

- Charles M. Schulz

topic: Girl, Summer, Vacation, Summer Vacation

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That meant Germany for my first summer vacation, to learn the thorny language on my own.

- Paul Engle

source: Paul Engle (1996). “A lucky American childhood”, Univ of Iowa Pr

topic: Summer, Philosophy, Vacation, Summer Vacation, German Philosophy