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Quotes About Camp

My mother's sister married a man from Barbados, and my cousins were raised in Barbados. So we traveled down there, they came up every summer for camp, and I started paying attention to their music. And that was the first place I ever remember hearing reggae and liking it.
~ Matisyahu
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
~ Hans Urs von Balthasar
Running toward and throwing objects at an approaching bear were two of the most effective techniques. Other effective methods were yelling, clapping hands, and banging pots together. Combinations of these mildly aggressive acts seemed to be particularly effective. The farther a bear got into camp, and especially if it was already eating people's food, the harder it was to chase away.
~ Stephen Herrero
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
~ Anatoli Boukreev
I actually like snakes! When I was young, I was a boy scout nature camp counselor, and one of our projects was collecting snakes and creating an environment for them, so I'm quite familiar with snakes and think they're fantastic creatures.
~ Harrison Ford
My brother had a big comic book chest, and he kept the key in the exact same place. So when he would leave for camp or be gone for a few days at a friend's house, I would totally sneak into that room and open the comic book chest and see 'X-Men' and 'Sandman' and all the Neil Gaiman stuff and all the Marvel stuff and some old 'Thor' comics.
~ Sabaa Tahir
Growing up, I used to go to the Fred Hoiberg camp all the time. I used to have so much fun there - just me and my friends going to these camps, having fun playing around.
~ Harrison Barnes
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?
~ Milan Kundera
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~ Milan Kundera
Sometimes it's summer camp on location. So it's nice to have a little New York community of people you love.
~ Paul Dano
Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!
~ Rick Riordan
Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.
~ Eli Roth
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Walter Scott
Any football player will tell you that in July you get this dark cloud over you if you know camp's coming.
~ Chris Long
I understand what training camp is for. It's needed. It's necessary, so it's just one of those things that you have to put yourself through and it makes you better. It gets you in good shape, so it's necessary.
~ Logan Mankins
All these people who scream about Kashmir being an armed camp are in fact responsible for keeping it that way.
~ Zubin Mehta
James might have enjoyed the day, but Hawk's mood was black and the girl's even blacker. The camp was like a battle line.
~ Kat Martin
The tabernacle was the symbolic physical display of that otherwise invisible presence. Thus it stood at both the physical center of the camp and the spiritual heart of the nation.
~ Brian Godawa
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
~ Buffalo Bill
One Saturday, he had gone to take the subway to Pennsylvania Station en route for the Soviet week-end rest camp at Glen Cove, the former Morgan estate on Long Island.
~ Ian Fleming
'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
~ Nat Wolff
Ask any deer camp old-timer for a foolproof recipe, and you're likely to encounter a lot of Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup. There is a reason for that: Mushrooms plus cream plus game meat adds up to a perfect trinity of flavors.
~ Jonathan Miles
Notes on 'Camp' talks a lot about homosexuality and androgyny and performance and a false seriousness, nit-picking the trivial things and making them funny. And that's exactly what drag does. Reading through the entire essay I couldn't help but relate all of it back to drag.
~ Violet Chachki
The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.
~ Nelson A. Miles