Camps Quotes - Page 18

• I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Inspiring, Mother, Strong

  "Diane von Furstenberg: Unwrapped". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 14, 2009.

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• Part-black generally means all-black in Americans' minds. Just as part-Asian or part-Hispanic or part-anything-else usually puts individuals in those minority-groups' camps.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Mean, Mind, Black

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• The Obama camp, the White House, and the media all condemned Romney before they condemned the attacks. Obama thought it more worthwhile to hit Romney for what he was doing than the terrorists for what they did. Romney got hit first.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Media, White, House

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• Playing guitar was one of my childhood hobbies, and I had played a little at school and at camp. My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby - nothing more.

  Bonnie Raitt

  School, Guitar, Childhood

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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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• 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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• Percy glanced over. He saw the fallen giant and seemed to understand what was happening. He yelled something that was lost in the wind, probably: Go! Then he slammed Riptide into the ice at his feet. The entire glacier shuddered. Ghosts fell to their knees. Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay-a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. Water shot from the chasms and crevices in the ice. As the wave hit, the back half of the camp crumbled. The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void-carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge.

  Rick Riordan

  Wall, Ice, Wind

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• She was beautiful in combat. I know that’s a crazy thing to say, especially after we’d just climbed a sewage waterfall, but her gray eyes sparkled when she was fighting for her life. Her face shone like a goddess’s, and believe me, I’ve seen goddesses. The way her Camp Half-Blood beads rested against her throat—Okay, sorry. Got a little distracted.

  Rick Riordan

  Beautiful, Sorry, Crazy

  Rick Riordan (2012). “The Demigod Diaries (Heroes of Olympus)”, p.75, Penguin UK

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• Percy and Reyna occupied matching praeters' chairs on the dais, which made Percy self-conscious. It wasn't easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. "The camp is safe," Octavian continued. " I'll be the first to congragulate our heroes for bringing back the legion's eagle and so much Imperial gold! Truly we have been blessed with good fortune. But why do more? Why tempt fate?" "I'm glad you asked." Percy stood, taking the question as an opening. Octavian stammered, " I wasn't--" "--Part of the quest," Percy said. "Yes I know. And your'e wise to let me explain, since I was.

  Rick Riordan

  Wise, Blessed, Hero

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• Percy?" Annabeth gripped his arm. "Oh, bad," he muttered. "Bad. Bad." He looked across the table at Frank and Hazel. "You guys remember Polybotes?" "The giant who invaded Camp Jupiter," Hazel said. "The anti-Poseidon you whacked in the head with a Terminus statue. Yes, I think I remember

  Rick Riordan

  Thinking, Guy, Giants

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• While Leo fussed over his helm controls, Hazel and Frank relayed the story of the fish-centaurs and their training camp. 'Incredible,' Jason said. 'These are really good brownies.' 'That's your only comment?' Piper demanded. He looked surprised. 'What? I heard the story. Fish-centaurs. Merpeople. Letter of intro to the Tiber River god. Got it. But these brownies--' 'I know,' Frank said, his mouth full. 'Try them with Ester's peach preserves.' 'That,' Hazel said, 'is incredibly disgusting.' 'Pass me the jar, man,' Jason said. Hazel and Piper exchanged a look of total exasperation. Boys.

  Rick Riordan

  Boys, Men, Rivers

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• Believe it or not, but I was a camp councilor for three years. I love kids.

  Eli Roth

  Believe, Kids, Years

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• He remembered his home now, and that gave him new determination to succeed. He was fighting for two camps now -- two families.

  Rick Riordan

  Determination, Home, Fighting

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• She always imagined that evil played out on a large canvas- wars, concentration camps, gas chambers, the partitioning of nations. Now she realized that evil had a domestic side, and its very banality protected it from exposure.

  Thrity Umrigar

  War, Evil, Sides

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• There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

  Louis Sachar

  Lakes, Green, Holes

  Louis Sachar (2007). “There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom: Rejacketed”, p.198, A&C Black

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• I am camp. Lots of gay men can't cope with their campness. They are in denial about it.

  Graham Norton

  Gay, Men, Denial

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• As a professor in two fields, neurology and psychiatry, I am fully aware of the extent to which man is subject to biological, psychological and sociological conditions. But in addition to being a professor in two fields I am a survivor of four camps - concentration camps, that is - and as such I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Two, Survivor

  Viktor E. Frankl (2011). “The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism”, p.51, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm in the camp that needs to discover and take risks, sometimes it's with the promise of something special and new, sometimes it's to stay awake, either way it's much more stressful with all the uncertainty but worth the pain in the end.

  Karen O

  Pain, Risk, Promise

  "Karen O’s Psycho Opera Will Be A ‘Psychedelic Ride Laced With Catharsis’". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2011.

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• What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

  Barack Obama

  Thinking, Long, Effort

  "Muslim Americans Weigh In On 2008 Campaign". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. October 28, 2008.

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• I imagined having that bronzed dragon in our fight against the Titan lord Kronos. His monsters would think twice about attacking camp if they have to face that thing. On the other hand, if the dragon decided to go berserk again and attack the campers-that would pretty much stink.

  Rick Riordan

  Fighting, Thinking, Dragons

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• Campaign boot camp started as an opportunity to work in a grassroots way with people who were running for Congress. Colleagues on the Democratic National Committee were batting around different possibilities. I said, 'We should have boot camps.'

  Christine Pelosi

  Running, Opportunity, Should Have

  "Christine Pelosi's boot camp trains future politicians to avoid the campaign minefield" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. February 3, 2008.

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• Percy: I’ll walk down to the cabins and Connor and Travis are stealing stuff from the camp store, and Silena is arguing with Annabeth trying to give her a new makeover, and Clarisse is still sticking the new kids’ head into the toilets. It’s nice that some things never change.

  Rick Riordan

  Nice, Kids, Giving

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• "Yeah, flattering." Percy raised Riptide. "But actually I'm the son of Poseidon. I'm from Camp Half-Blood."

  Rick Riordan

  Son, Blood, Half

  "The Son of Neptune". Book by Rick Riordan, October 4, 2011.

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• Stalinism is linked with a cult of personality and massive violations of the law, with repression and camps. There is nothing like that in Russia and, I hope, will never again be...

  Vladimir Putin

  Russia, Cult Of Personality, Law

  "Vladimir Putin outdoes himself with 'record-making' televised Q&A" by Miriam Elder, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2013.

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• So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?” Aphros frowned. “I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________.” He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.

  Rick Riordan

  Blood, Sound, Made

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