Camps Quote by Rick Riordan

Greece has got something like 1,400 islands. There is so much of Greece you can't know even if you're Greek. It's sprinkled out all…

— Joanna Lumley

My grandfather loved the countryside.

— Sophie Dahl

“There were only three names on the map of the region we had brought with us, but we now filled in more than two…

— Heinrich Harrer

It was this epic adventure and I had this mad idea that it would be interesting to follow the Greek hero Odysseus on his…

— Bettany Hughes

In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying…

— Kit Carson

“A message of consolation to Greek brothers in their prison camps, and to my Haitian brothers and Nicaraguan brothers and Dominican brothers and South…

— E.L. Doctorow

“Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map.”

— Rory Stewart

One of the flashpoints of the grand war between Athens and Sparta, a millennium after Helen first caused trouble for the Mediterranean world, was…

— Bettany Hughes

“0820 Hours, 10 miles West of Howell, Idaho: “Patton, Kap, X-Twins! Up top in five! Let’s go!” yelled a familiar voice from the ladder…

— C. Elmon Meade

My family is all from the Southwest. My great-great-grandfather was at the Battle of San Jacinto with Sam Houston.

— Sam Elliott

“We who survived the Camps are not true witnesses. This is an uncomfortable notion which I have gradually come to accept by reading what…

— Primo Levi

“In fact, this communication seems to go so far back in time that we are gradually being led to perceive the possibility that the…

— Leonard William King