Vacations Quotes 

Until last year, although this town was barely fifty miles from Denver, the road had been bad and only a handful of visitors had chanced on it. The increasing tendency for people to take mountain vacations, however, since the sea had become too filthy to be tolerable, could not be ignored. The road now was excellent and the area had exploded.
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Death should be a long, beautiful voyage and limitless vacations of the flesh.

tristan tzara

— From a Dada poem, originally in French. La mort serait un beau long voyage et les vacances illimitees de la chair des structures et des os.1923  De nos oiseaux,'La mort de GuillaumeApollinaire'.

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The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

Gertrude Stein

— Gertrude Stein, Paris, France, 1940 (New York: Liveright, 1970, p. 107).

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That man, the king of vacations... the king of vacations in his ranch said nothing but: "You have to flee." and didn't say how... that cowboy, the cowboy mentality.

hugo chávez

— Hugo Chávez criticizes George W. Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina, during a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television (August 31, 2005). [11]

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The rest of our weekend sleeping arrangements, hand-done work, hand-prepared food was simple enough to please Thoreau, who I am convinced was a nice fellow who confused rustic vacations with life.

alexei panshin

— Chapter 11 (p. 157)

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I’m a firm believer that in-depth subjects can be better handled in a fantasy setting. ... Let’s face it, traveling to some far off land is a terrific way to break the mold, to do something different. Isn’t that why we go on vacations?

jim starlin

— Undated comment at his official site.

Tags: firm, believer, indepth, subjects, can, better, handled, fantasy, setting

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The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting

Gertrude Stein

— p. 107 (Afterword of a later edition)

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The family is always the family but during vacations it is an extended family and that is exhausting.

Gertrude Stein

— Stein, Gertrude. Paris France. New York: Liveright, 1970. (p. 107).

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