Campfire Quotes

• The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beauty, Echoes, Dying

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• Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

  Rudyard Kipling

  Twilight, Night, Burning

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• when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

  Tom Waits

  Dream, Luck, Beans

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• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Beautiful, Summer, Spring

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster (1914). “Friends O' Mine: A Book of Poems and Stories”

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• I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.

  Newt Gingrich

  Party, Boys, Thinking

  Newt Gingrich's Address to the College Republicans at the Atlanta Airport Holiday Inn, www.pbs.org. June 24, 1978.

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• Whatever form it takes, camping is earthy, soul enriching and character building, and there can be few such satisfying moments as having your tent pitched and the smoke rising from your campfire as the golden sun sets on the horizon--even if it's just for a fleeting moment before the rain spoils everything.

  Pippa Middleton

  Rain, Character, Soul

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• Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

  Garrison Keillor

  Vanity, People, Greed

  "We Are Still Married : Stories & Letters". Book by Garrison Keillor, "The Meaning of Life", 1989.

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• Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.

  Laurie Anderson

  Technology, Stories, Old Technology

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• Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Best Love, Cold, Remember

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.190, Harper Collins

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• It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out.

  Cynthia Lewis

  Teaching, Trying, Sticks

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• I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.

  Phil Keoghan

  Thinking, People, Trying

  "Adventurer. Storyteller. Host of the Amazing Race". Interview with Zoe Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire.

  Stephen King

  Sometimes, Embers

  Stephen King (2016). “Coffey's Hands”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country, pleasant camps, and happy campfires.

  Fred Bear

  Beautiful, Country, Memories

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• Can you hear the dreams crackling like a campfire? Can you hear the dreams sweeping through the pine trees and tipis? Can you hear the dreams laughing in the sawdust? Can you hear the dreams shaking just a little bit as the day grows long? Can you hear the dreams putting on a good jacket that smells of fry bread and sweet smoke? Can you hear the dreams stay up late and talk so many stories?

  Sherman Alexie

  Dream, Sweet, Smell

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• Don't we all look back in longing, those of us who had happy childhoods? Because the greatest loss we ever know is not the loss of family or place or money, it is the loss of innocence. There is forever a hollow place in our hearts once we realize that darkness rings the campfire.

  Carolyn Hart

  Heart, Loss, Childhood

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• In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hands, Sun, Heat

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.51, Random House

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• I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Character, Giving, Choices

  The Book Reporter interview, www.bookreporter.com. April 21, 2000.

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• The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

  Veronica Roth

  Powerful, Fire, Racing

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• This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

  Aldo Leopold

  Life, Song, Nature

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons", p. 149, 1949.

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

  Edward Abbey

  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• Stories match the way our species thinks. Equally important, stories are something we share - everyone everywhere tells stories and oddly enough, in the same way. It all probably started around some campfire a million years ago.

  John Daly

  Thinking, Years, Important

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• I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Country, Agriculture, Farms

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• A white crowned night sparrow sings as the moon sets. Thunder growls far off. Our campfire is a single light. Amongst a hundred peaks and waterfalls. The manifold voices of falling water Take all night. Wrapped in your down bag Starlight on you cheeks and eyelids Your breath comes and goes In a tiny cloud in the frosty night. Ten thousand birds sing in the sunrise. Ten thousand years revolve without change. All this will never be again.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Time, Fall, Moon

  Kenneth Rexroth (1967). “The Collected Shorter Poems”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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• The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story.

  Marco Tempest

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

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• What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

  Garrison Keillor

  Sports, Sweet, Flower

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