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Quotes About Camp

I used to go to surf camp in the summers, and I remember going to the beach and thinking my style was so different from all of the other kids.
~ Camille Rowe
I was a fan of the original 'Dynasty' - the fabulous fashion, the spectacular camp, but also the characters who carried the camp into surprisingly emotional places.
~ Sallie Patrick
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure that the surrender terms were being complied with and that living conditions for the POWs were being immediately improved.
~ Wilfred Burchett
There was a stove pipe on top of the box, but there were no bullet holes in the pipe. I was amazed. Almost all the camp stoves we had seen in Idaho had been full of bullet holes. I guess it's only reasonable that people, when they get the chance, would want to shoot some old stove sitting in the woods." Excerpt From Trout Fishing in America
~ Richard Brautigan
Our parents met at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona at a high school summer science camp. I'd come to see the heavens, our father always said. But the stars were in her eyes, a line that used to please and embarrass me in equal measure. Young geeks in love.
~ Karen Joy Fowler
I was a camp counselor for kids whose moms were on welfare, unfortunately, and right across the camp was the best, most pristine and preppy camp in the universe.
~ Harvey Weinstein
People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.
~ Janelle Monae
Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings.
~ John Muir
But we want peace, I would move all my people down this way. I could then keep them all quietly near camp.
~ Black Kettle
If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong in the latter camp.
~ Gail Fine
From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.
~ James Lileks
When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side,'" he said in a speech on November 6, 1933, "I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already… What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.
~ William L. Shirer
Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.
~ David Bowie
Don't get me wrong, hard and soft fantasy stories can both be good. But you need to know which camp you're in. I'm into realism. I'm a hard fantasy guy.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Brandon Wegher left camp to deal with some personal things. We hope he can return in the very near future
~ Kirk Ferentz
You know, " he said, "P.S.S. Piss Camp." "Yeah, I get it, " I said, "It's just not funny.
~ Ripley Patton, Ghost Hand
A series of howls and war cries echoed through the camp....The werewolves and Japanese had attacked."-pg.353 Forbidden Nights with a Vampire Kerrelyn Sparks
~ Kerrelyn Sparks
Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.
~ Meriwether Lewis
No one knew that better O'Rourke, Harrison, and others who worked in the camp and whose persistence and sense of fair play somewhat mitigated the injustice—except of course to the internees themselves, whose lives were torn asunder.
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
In the challenging desert terrain, internees raised livestock and produced enough vegetables to feed the entire camp. On-site
~ Jan Jarboe Russell
I had a backpack with our water supplies and tossed in a crab net I'd found in the camp closet, just in case I needed to capture that bird. Or tie off a compound fracture. It could swing either way.
~ Jana Deleon
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
~ Jane Seymour
But other countries have gone the other way. Australia is now building internment camps for Covid quarantine. It calls them "centers for national resilience."14 George Orwell would be proud.
~ Alex Berenson
I think TV in general is camp. 'X Factor' is camp, 'Strictly Come Dancing' is camp. Basically, an orange man comes down some stairs and waves at the camera. People are drawn to that.
~ Alan Carr