Quotes About Summer Camps

#1. The night wears on; the fire dwindles; the wind shifts and my heart aches with nostalgia - summer camps and catching lightning bugs and August skies aflame with stars. The way the desert smells and the long, wistful sigh of wind rushing down from the mountains as the sun dips beneath the horizon.

Rick Yancey

#2. When people send people on summer camps or bonding trips, they send them to do things like high rope climbing or extraordinary things. And when you do extraordinary things with people, like fighting battles or simulating huge wars, you do bond very quickly.

Anna Popplewell

#3. summer camps focus on robotics Times staff

Anonymous

#4. As parents, we need to send our kids back to 'old-fashioned' outdoor summer camps, which have been on the decline as the demand for sports and academics-based camps has risen. We need to fight budget cuts to public parks programs and resist closures of public swimming pools and playgrounds.

Darell Hammond

#5. I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'

Lauren London

#6. If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.

Bryan Fuller

#7. It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Brene Brown

#8. A lot of camps and summer programs for kids seem to have discovered that among the most valuable things they offer is what they don't offer. No Wi-Fi. No grades. No hovering parents or risk managers or parents who parent like risk managers.

Nancy Gibbs

#9. Cause this place is a home away from home where you can forget about all that painful stuff and just be yourself with the people who, like, truly get - or at least truly want to get - who you are.

Stacy Davidowitz

#10. The thought of getting pregnant again is terrific birth control.

Bethany Lopez

#11. Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

Groucho Marx

#12. From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#13. They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls.
Was it fate?
Misfortune?
Is that what glued them down like that?
Of course not.
Let's not be stupid.
It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

Markus Zusak

#14. Looking out over the lake, I felt enveloped in the most peaceful, loving utopia.

Laurie Kahn

#15. Eternity sneaks in
her arms full of wild promises.

Rod McKuen

#16. Spring and summer 1942 was probably the worst period of internal terror in Slovakia. It was also the time of mass deportation of Slovak Jews to the extermination camps in Poland.

Alexander Dubcek

#17. A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

George Eliot

#18. A few of us always compared anything good to: ' Isn't it just like camp?' When we first got married, we asked each other, 'Was your honeymoon good?' 'Yeah. It was just like camp.

Laurie Kahn

#19. Grief was something you could work through, but regret lived forever, tormenting you with everything you might have done differently.

Kit Rocha