National Camp Meeting

Famous quotes containing the words national, camp and/or meeting:

“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
—Carson McCullers (1917–1967)

“Men consort in camp and town
But the poet dwells alone.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“When one drinks with a friend, a thousand cups are not enough, but when there is no meeting of minds, half a sentence can be too much.”
—Chinese proverb.