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Quotes About Camp

Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.
~ Joan Kirner
You were up at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then you'd ride in a caravan, because we didn't have big movie trucks or trailers that is the hardware of a movie camp.
~ Marguerite Moreau
I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
~ Natalie Portman
I think that the audience wants to see women being put into real situations where they can relate to them, rather than seeing some glamorous woman in a 'Bond' film.
~ Anna Camp
If I have to be remembered for something, I want it remembered that I really liked children and was a good camp counselor.
~ Francis Ford Coppola
IT'S NO SIMPLE thing,' he said, frowning as he worked through his thoughts, 'but in the world – among people, that is. Society, culture, nation – in the world, then, there are attackers and there are defenders. Most of us possess within ourselves elements of both, but in a general sense a person falls to one camp or the other, as befits their nature.
~ Steven Erikson
I do not hesitate to say that any man of determined character could keep out of trouble even in the worst days of the camp, provided he had no tempting wealth, attended to his own affairs, and maintained a quiet though resolute demeanour.
~ Stewart Edward White
I'm a Palindrake," Varencienne said. "Your sea wife. I've earned that. Don't push me back into the enemy camp.
~ Storm Constantine
Nancy scarcely had time to deposit her suitcase under her cot and freshen up after the long ride when lunch was announced by the ringing of a bell. Campers hurried from all directions to the dining hall. The food was plain but appetizing and Nancy ate with zest. The meal over, she was rushed from one activity to another. The girls insisted that she join them in a hike. Then came a cooling dip in the lake.
~ Carolyn Keene
An hour later Nancy, Ned, and their friends were watching the swimming races at Camp Hiawatha. In the fun and excitement she found it hard to remember the threat of danger. Cheers and singing filled the air as the young campers put all their high-spirited enthusiasm into the contests.
~ Carolyn Keene
When you are in an international camp, you are together for 10 days. You eat three times a day together. You spend a lot of time in each other's company. That 10 days is very important ,and I think even times for training, times when you eat, meetings, this that and the other, a lot has got to change in that camp.
~ Chris Coleman
My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.
~ George Takei
'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
~ Faizon Love
It's a joy to help others. One of our longtime favorites is Rawhide Boys Camp, located 45 miles west of Green Bay.
~ Bart Starr
I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I can't even make it in training camp now?'
~ Gerald Green
Those who are ignorant of Geology, find no difficulty in believing that the world was made as it is; and the shepherd, untutored in history, sees no reason to regard the green mounds which indicate the site of a Roman camp, as aught but part and parcel of the primeval hill-side.
~ Thomas Henry Huxley
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above; For love is heaven, and heaven is love." Sir Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805
~ Kathleen Baldwin
This was not discrimination against Jews as such, but it was almost as bad: it was an attempt to ignore them altogether. As one Dutch camp survivor put it, 'Where there should have been pity, I encountered the dry, difficult to approach, repellent, amorphous mass known as officialdom.'13
~ Keith Lowe
However, foreign observers were struck by how often even large Indian cities resembled immense camps, with people grouped around the people they served.
~ Kenneth Pomeranz
NOWHERE TO RUN. 1 Three hours after he'd broken camp, repacked, and pushed his horses higher into the mountain range, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett paused on the lip of a wide hollow basin and dug in his saddlebag for his notebook.
~ C.J. Box
I felt confident that his inherited knowledge and instincts would soon assert themselves, given the chance, and in spite of his [lion] breeding. I must admit that I did not feel the same confidence about his two owners, when I heard they would accompany Christian [lion] and stay a few weeks at my camp. I was lead to believe they were very 'mod' with long hair and exotic clothing.
~ George Adamson
It was as if Morell had kidnapped the University of Nebraska's defensive line, put them through Marine Corps boot camp, and given them huge knives to hack people to bits with.
~ Ilona Andrews
There are still many other worries such as the threat of a concentration camp, the status of Jews etc. Sunday was unforgettable
~ Irene Nemirovsky