Camp Counselor Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I was a lifeguard, camp counselor, the president of the YMCA Leaders Corps. I also took piano lessons. I was a dancer.

Chirlane McCray

#3. I tried to do it all myself: be mommy and camp counselor and art teacher and prereading specialist (and somehow, in my off-hours, to do my own work). I tried my absolute best. And like so many of the moms around me, I started to go a little crazy.

Judith Warner

#4. 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

#5. When I was 14 or 15, a camp counselor told me I was smart. I had never been very good in school, but he told me once that I was smart but my mind operated a little differently.

Alan Dershowitz

#6. From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream.

Julia Glass

#7. I used to think that, when I was a director, I would have a very specific vision of what everything would look like, but now I am more of a camp counselor.

Jill Soloway

#8. 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

#9. I thought you were some sort of camp counselor," Julian finally said to Kelly. "Work with troubled kids and all that." Kelly pursed his lips. "Yeah. It's called Camp Asskicker.
I'll give you a 'you tried' badge next time I see you.

Abigail Roux

#10. I've been a children's book editor, a nanny, a camp counselor, a barista, a research lab assistant, and a movie theater ticket-taker.

Lisa Graff

#11. If I wasn't acting, I would probably be working with children. I was a camp counselor growing up and I loved it.

Julianne Nicholson

#12. I treaded water academically and spent much of my summertime as a camp counselor. It seemed a fun thing to do for a person in no way prepared to commit to a career path.

Brian Shactman

#13. When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#14. Why would any writer in her right mind ever consider making a movie instead? That's like going from being a monk or a nun to serving as a camp counselor for hundreds of problem children.

Amy Tan

#15. My first paying job, when I was 15, I was a day camp counselor.

Victoria Pratt

#16. Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#17. I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey, from the time I was 6, and then I was a counselor there through high school.

Melissa Rauch

#18. Finally, she said: "I'm lonely" - it's weird but you tell the wolves things, sometimes. You can't help it, all these old wounds come open and suddenly you're confessing to a wolf who never says anything back. She said: "I'm lonely," and they ate her in the street.

Catherynne M Valente

#19. If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride.

Kristin Hannah

#20. Lie can run but they can't hide

Pavankumar Nagaraj

#21. Shrimp farms are a scourge on the earth, frankly, from an environmental point of view. They pour huge amounts of pollutants into the ocean. They also pollute their next-door neighbors.

Jane Poynter

#22. Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

Samuel Beckett

#23. Nothing unites two people so completely, especially if, like you and me, all they have is words.

Franz Kafka

#24. To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

Joseph Story

#25. Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who bought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities
their brute persistence.

Nicholson Baker

#26. I like to abide by the seasons and let the natural flavor in food speak for itself. I use quick cooking techniques of high heat with very little fat, such as quick saute or wok stir-frying.

Cat Cora

#27. Collecting records is, for many, beyond a hobby.

Henry Rollins

#28. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

Joyce Rachelle

#29. I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

Iris Apfel

#30. In his eyes, I'm some kind of perfect.

Krista Ritchie