Quotes about Campfire

The new national campfire - radio. Votes: 4

I was introduced to country music around a campfire on a farm. Votes: 4

So I got interested in singing and I have always used my voice. Not professionally as much, but around the living room, the campfire, that kind of thing. Votes: 4

As social animals, we need to exchange juicy tales about someone - to connect with one another. For millions of years our forebears must have sat around the campfire, whispering about everyone they knew. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I think 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, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. Votes: 4

Sometimes the embers are better than the campfire. Votes: 3

Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories. Votes: 3

Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended. Votes: 3

The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire. Votes: 3

The tools of social networking: These are the digital campfires around which the audience gathers to hear our story. Votes: 3

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Votes: 3

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night? Votes: 3

The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad. Votes: 3

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us. Votes: 3

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. This place will warm me, feed me and care for me. I will hold on to this pulse against other rhythms. The world will come and go in the tide of a day but here is her hand with my future in its palm. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The incident with Dawn hadn't been one of my finer moments. I honestly hadn't expected to break any bones when I shoved her into a tree. Still, the incident had given me a dangerous reputation. The story had gained legendary status, and I liked to imagine that it was still being told around campfires late at night. Judging by the look on the girl's face, it was. Votes: 3

In an ideal world the scientist should find a method to prevent the most severe forms of autism but allow the milder forms to survive. After all, the really social people did not invent the first stone spear. It was probably invented by an Aspie who chipped away at rocks while the other people socialized around the campfire. Without autism traits we might still be living in caves. Votes: 3

People? People are chaotic quiddities living in one cave each. They pass the hours in amorous grudge and playback and thought experiment. At the campfire they put the usual fraction on exhibit, and listen to their own silent gibber about how they're feeling and how they're going down. We've been there. Death helps. Death gives us something to do. Because it's a fulltime job looking the other way. Votes: 3

I think of myself... as a troubadour, a village storyteller, the guy in the shadows of the campfire. Votes: 1

I've said before, if you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet! Votes: 1

You get guys around a campfire, and they start telling their stories. That's the fellowship that they want to be in. Votes: 1

Film is just a different version of what we did round the campfire when we were Neanderthals. We tell stories so people can learn things and relativise things. Votes: 1

I've said before: 'If you're going to earnestly sing a song around a campfire, you'd better be a Muppet!' Or else we're just not going to buy it. Votes: 1

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits. Votes: 1

I try to give the music more of a campfire feel as opposed to a library atmosphere. I like when you can hear people hanging out in the songs and doing a little shuffling. It creates a feeling of participation. Votes: 1

Probably the single most important evolutionary trait dogs developed was right there at the outset, illuminated by the campfire. It is in those eyebrows and in the way dogs have of tilting their heads. They are warm packages of emotions. Votes: 1

Mapping does not purport to create an idealistic vision where all teachers agree, love one another, and gather around a campfire and sing 'Curriculum Kumbaya.' What it can develop is a sense of place, of respect, and of new grounds for discussion, disputes, and direction. Votes: 1

I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true. Votes: 1

I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified. Votes: 1

I want a campfire box. Votes: 0

In the heat of her hands I thought, This is the campfire that mocks the sun. Votes: 0

It's easier to throw sticks on the campfire than to try to restart it when it goes out. Votes: 0

I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire. Votes: 0

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans Votes: 0

One of my favorite scenes of the movie [Valley of Violence] is when Ethan Hawke is sitting at the campfire with the dog. Votes: 0

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't driving around on a bus and having a campfire kind of adding to the environment problem? Votes: 0

Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started? Votes: 0

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together. Votes: 0

I think of myself in the oral tradition-as a troubadour, a village tale-teller, the man in the shadows of the campfire. That's the way I'd like to be remembered- as a storyteller. A good storyteller. Votes: 0