Summer Camp Quotes

• When I was a child, I was unable to go to any type of sleepaway summer camp because of health issues. Once I learned about the Lopez Foundation, I knew I wanted to get involved, send kids with kidney disease away to camp so they can still experience overnight camp with medical needs at hand.

  Sarah Hyland

  Summer, Children, Kids

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a conviction that a few weeks spent in a well organized summer camp may be of more value educationally than a whole year of formal school work.

  Charles William Eliot

  Summer, School, Years

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• Lacy had warned me about Drew the first day of school. Apparently the two of them had gone to some summer camp together––blah, blah, I didn't really listen to teh details––and Drew had been just as much a tyrant there. ~Sadie Kane, about Lacy and Drew of Aphrodite cabin.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, School, Tyrants

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• The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Fire

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

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• You always are changed when you come back from summer camp.

  Emma Stone

  Summer, Changed, Camps

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Midwest kids got to summer camp. There is something very special about being away from your parents for the first time, sleeping under the stars, hiking and canoeing.

  Jami Gertz

  Summer, Stars, Sleep

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• In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Summer, Song, Religious

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• I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, every day with a new group of people whom you kind of love and then never see again.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Summer, Holiday, People

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• On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.

  Marla Sokoloff

  Summer, Shows, Camps

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had a bat mitzvah, was confirmed, went to Jewish summer camp, I go to temple for the High Holy Days. I think, like most people in their early 20s, I kind of strayed away from it. I think once I have a family I'll be back into it

  Lizzy Caplan

  Summer, Thinking, Holy Days

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.

  Ajay Naidu

  Summer, School, Ideas

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• My first few films were institutional comedies, and you're on pretty safe ground when you're dealing with an institution that vast numbers of people have experienced: college, summer camp, the military, the country club.

  Harold Ramis

  Summer, Country, Military

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• If you're not in New York, you're camping out.

  Thomas E. Dewey

  New York, Camping, Ifs

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• The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Winter, Fire

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

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• Summer camp was a place where I felt like myself that wasn't like school. There were no grades, we got to try lots of new things, and I started to play guitar at camp. It was a place for acceptance and learning to be a part of a community, but also learning to be yourself. I want that for all kids, but some kids don't have the opportunity to go to camp. I want to help.

  Lisa Loeb

  Summer, Being Yourself, School

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• To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp songs still resonate inside me. Competition exists at Keewaydin, of course, but nobody fails summer camp, a nice respite from winters of fortune and misfortune at school.

  Michael Eisner

  Summer, Song, Nice

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• Summer camp: the second worst camp for Jews.

  Sarah Silverman

  Summer, Worst, Jew

  "Sarah Silverman on Ranting Rabbis, Doing 'Louie' and Her Kid-Friendly Killer App " by Seth Abramovitch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 27, 2012.

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• Apparently, Osama bin Laden was killed with money and phone numbers sewn into his clothing. So we got him right before he left for summer camp.

  Jay Leno

  Summer, Phones, Numbers

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• I wanted to get a guitar [when I was 13] so I could play punk songs because kid taught me power chords at summer camp. He was like, "You could play all punk songs if you just learn this chord and just move it around on the guitar".

  Ezra Furman

  Summer, Song, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Summer, Hate, Camping

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• 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

  Girl, Summer, Mom

  "Lauren London Exclusive Interview: ‘Under My Skin” (Part 2)". Interview with Kathleen Cross, kathleencross.com. June 2, 2011.

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• Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a twinge of sadness. He should be at Camp Half-Blood right now, settling into his cabin for the summer, teaching sword-fighting lessons in the arena, playing pranks on the other counselors. These kids had no idea just how crazy a summer camp could be.

  Rick Riordan

  Summer, Crazy, Teaching

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• But day after day of depression, the kind that doesn’t seem to merit carting me off to a hospital but allows me to sit here on this stoop in summer camp as if I were normal, day after day wearing down everybody who gets near me. My behavior seems, somehow, not acute enough for them to know what to do with me, though I’m just enough of a mess to be driving everyone around me crazy.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Summer, Crazy, Merit

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I was growing up, I was teased for being too skinny. I went to summer camp when I was 11. I wore shorts, and the nurse said to me, in front of all my friends, that I was anorexic and that she had to monitor me to make sure I was eating. Because of that trauma, I never wore short pants or short skirts until I was 20.

  Hani Furstenberg

  Summer, Growing Up, Nurse

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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