“The mud will wash off but the memories will last a lifetime.”
"There are two kinds of travel – first class and with children."
– Robert Benchley
"Summer vacations are a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid."
"Being on vacation with my family has brought me so much closer to my iPad."
"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money."
– Abigail Van Buren
"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
– Franklin P. Jones
"Parents don’t really go on holidays. They just look after their kids in a different country for a while."
"Help me! I'm on a family vacation!"
"A vacation frequently means that the family goes away for a rest, accompanied by a mother who sees that the others get it."
— Marcelene Cox
"Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best."
— Bob Talbert
"Okay, we’re all like 90% happy and 10% sunburnt."
"A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places."
– Tom Lichtenheld
"Family Vacation (n.) A time for you to remember why your family never spends any time together."
"Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland."
"Everyone’s a little bit crazy and a little bit loud. But everyone’s sharing a generous amount of love."
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
"By 35, if I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the aunt who’s always traveling & comes to family events tipsy."
"There is no WiFi in the forest but you will find a better connection."
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."
– George Burns
"You call it a pandemonium. We call it a family vacation."
"You call it chaos. We call it a family vacation."
"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."
– Robert Orben
"Like gum to a shoe, you’re stuck with me and I’m stuck with you."