Quotes About Camp

Parsons stood on the edge of the dock at Camp KooKoRomo. She'd left her fishing gear—borrowed as an excuse to check out the lake—near the tall grass. If she jumped into the water and pretended to drown, would the counselors send her home? Camp will be good for you, Kat. You're too young to be stuck on the farm with a couple of old fogies. So instead of being with her grandparents, whom she loved, or visiting

many features of the dam construction camp of 1905 would still be very much in existence on the Colorado River in 1931—including racial and ethnic discrimination, profiteering at the company store, and the flouting of health and safety regulations in the name of efficient and speedy construction. At Black Canyon, the threat of a Wobbly rebellion would still cast a shadow.

Camp Tomahawk was supposed to last all summer long, but Eddy was being sent home after only five days. Not that he cared. The place seemed more like a prison to him.

Looking back, Eddy still couldn't see what was so awful about what he'd done. He'd gone to camp to have fun, but every time he tried, it just got him deeper into trouble.

She laughed. "Welcome to Camp Meds," She said. "Where the campers are crazy and the counselors want you to take drugs.

The astonishing thing is not that so many of us went to concentration camps or died there, but that some of us survived. Caution did not help. Only chance could save you.

Y nos meceremos una y otra vez, adelante y atrás, y te acuerdas de cuando éramos crías y le estábamos cuidando la casa a tus profesoras y resultó que eran lesbianas, y lo tensas que estábamos porque sabíamos que tendríamos que pasar los siguientes cuatro años en universidades distintas, empezando por aquel mismo verano, porque yo me iba a un estúpido campamento…

Although remote, the park can be busy during summer days. Savvy visitors know to camp out or at least arrange to be on-site at dusk:

remember, camp is kind of like time-out for adults. Only adults time-out last longer than kids time-out

Ney too was a legend to his men. He commanded the camp at Montreuil.

Davout commanded the Ambleteuse camp under strict discipline.

in camp to the last man and horse safely aboard the barges two miles away. It took them just over an hour and a half,

Le camp masculin, le plus superficiel, ne s'intéressa qu'aux âmes mortes; le camp féminin s'occupa exclusivement du rapt de la fille du gouverneur.

In the feeble glimmer of that light, we spent a sleepless night, all thinking of the same thing, the death that was concealed across the threshold of the coming dawn. Although the wind blew in through the cracked windowpanes, we thought that we would suffocate. "Enemy" planes flew overhead. The eerie wail of sirens went through the camp. Finally, the pale day broke.

The priests and nuns in the camp proved that they had real strength of character.

In fifteen minutes most of the camp was there, including the Texan who, Lord save his soul forever, had brought along a bottle of bonded Kentucky Drain Opener.

The SS experimented briefly in 1944 with using Hollerith cards and tabulators to steer the deployment of camp inmates to work sites but soon gave up on the idea.

Fitting. This was one of our favorite camps in the world. Year after year. If his spirit could look out. To the changing creek, season to season. I lay him in wrapped in the quilt and I say Goodbye, bud. You are Jasper. My heart. We are never apart, not here, not there.

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.

So Jacobís gifts went on before him, while he spent the night in the camp.

After Jacob had come from Paddan-aram, he arrived safely at the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped just outside the city.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

That evening quail came and covered the camp, and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.