Quotes About Camels

#1. If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.

Umar

#2. sides yellowed by too many unfiltered Camels. The whole place had the feel of a neighborhood hangout for people too stupid to realize they were drinking away an enormous percentage of their

Julia Kent

#3. Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#4. At the bat of your lashes peacocks preen. Peacocks preen, elephants remember, camels go for days without water, and dinosaurs of all types become extinct.

Tom Robbins

#5. ...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand.

Mike Bond

#6. Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.

David Sedaris

#7. At the meeting of our lips, peacocks went into hiding, elephants suffered memory loss, camels developed a maddening thirst, and dinosaurs long thought to be extinct turned up on the evening news.

Tom Robbins

#8. It's not for nothing that advanced mathematics tend to be invented in hot countries. It's because of the morphic resonance of all the camels who have that disdainful expression and famous curled lip as a natural result of an ability to do quadratic equations.

Terry Pratchett

#9. The camels had strayed far in search of scarce grass. When collected, they displayed a fiendish ingenuity in throwing their loads and tangling themselves up in every possible strap.

Rosita Forbes

#10. John wore clothes made of hair from camels. He had a leather belt around him. His food was locusts and wild honey. 7

Anonymous

#11. The difference between camels and men; a camel can work a week and not drink; a man can drink a week and not work.

Julian Tuwim

#12. Camels have a very democratic approach to the human race. They hate every member of it, without making any distinctions for rank or creed.

Terry Pratchett

#13. How do you feel about helicopters?"
There was a long pause. "How do you mean? Ethically?"
"As a mode of transportation."
"Faster than camels, but less sustainable.

Maggie Stiefvater

#14. The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...

Jean Ingelow

#15. Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

Jared Diamond

#16. If Camels are the ship of the dessert, this one is the Titanic

Karl Pilkington

#17. A single camel can carry around 300 kilograms. Using camels for hauling during migration is becoming a rarity in Mongolia, where mechanized transport is gradually replacing traditional means.

Tim Cope

#18. I want to spit back at a camel and ask him what he's so sour about. Maybe camels are the real 'Old Ones' on this planet ... and that what is wrong with the place.

Robert A. Heinlein

#19. You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!

Anne McCaffrey

#20. I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

William John Wills

#21. They strain over gnats and swallow camels. They also cannibalize each other for power.

Mike Duran

#22. How should those of us of no great education challenge him at table when he compared the efficiency of lions and camels and arrived at the conclusion that the carnivorous lion was far less efficient than the camel in the desert, which ate plants and grass.

Heinz Linge

#23. Camels are snobbish
and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic
even murderous.
Reindeer seem over-serious.

Marianne Moore

#24. Camels are far too intelligent to admit to being intelligent.

Terry Pratchett

#25. Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

Saint John Chrysostom

#26. Twenty candles on a cake. Twenty Camels in a pack. Twenty months in the federal pen. Twenty shots of tequila down a young girl's gullet. Twenty centuries since Our Lord's last pratfall, and after all that time we still don't know where passion goes when it goes.

Tom Robbins

#27. Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

Idries Shah

#28. If the wise men mounted their camels now, they could escape, no question. But Balthazar hadn't ridden into Bethlehem to run. He'd come to kill every last one of them, or die trying.

Seth Grahame-Smith

#29. 'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

John Curran

#30. In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels.

Rawi Hage

#31. Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

Idries Shah

#32. What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#33. After counting all the sheep in the world
I enumerate the wildebeests, snails,
camels, skylarks, etc.,
then I add up all the zoos and aquariums,
country by country.
By early light I am asleep
in a nightmare about drowning in the Flood,

Billy Collins

#34. Both camels are dead and our provisions are done.

William John Wills

#35. Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

Ambrose Bierce

#36. The diction used about Christ has been, and perhaps wisely, sweet and submissive. But the diction used by Christ is quite curiously gigantesque; it is full of camels leaping through needles and mountains hurled into the sea. Morally

G.K. Chesterton

#37. May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch

Keisha Keenleyside

#38. I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

Edward Herrmann

#39. A fox looked at his shadow at sunrise and said, "I will have a camel for lunch today." And all morning he went about looking for camels. But at noon he saw his shadow again-and he said, "A mouse will do.

Kahlil Gibran

#40. Once they rode camels in the desert; once they drove caravans across Europe. They eat screams and drink pain. You had your horrors at the Overlook, Danny, but at least you were spared these folks.

Stephen King

#41. It's a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

Terry Pratchett

#42. 5 Fieldworker life expectancy: 49 years. Antonio Velasco, M.D., Farm Workers in the 1990s. Forty-nine is akin to Somalia (United Nations report) and thirty years less than in the U.S. (CIA World Factbook, 2008). Camels and catfish live longer.

David Marin

#43. A cloud can look like a camel, but a camel is unlikely to look like a cloud. This is so because the signifier must be able to stand for the whole category of the signified. The cloud looks like all camels, but no camel looks like all clouds.

Rudolf Arnheim

#44. Listen," you said.
"To what? There's nothing."
"There is. Maybe not shopping centers and cars, but other things ... buzzing insects, racing ants, a slight wind making the tree creak, there's a honeyeater up there, scuttling around, and the camels are coming.

Lucy Christopher

#45. Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Roger Ebert

#46. See that caravan of camels
loaded with sugar?--
His eyes contain that much sweetness.
But don't look into His eyes
unless you're ready to lose all sight of your own.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#47. White camels, though highly prized in some areas, remain rare.18 One discovered in Rajasthan, India, was the first in living memory for that area. On the Arabian Peninsula, where white camels are actively bred for, they are more common but still rare.19

Anonymous

#48. Then Washbourg gave his iphone to Ibi as he walked up to the severed head, grinned, and said "Watch this." Then, he proceeded to kick the severed head 30 yards to his left between two camels and shouted "Goal!

Mark Wilkins

#49. When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.

Jean Dubuffet

#50. I heard someone say that it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to get into heaven. I decided to sculpt camels in a needle.

Willard Wigan

#51. Let the two cross-tops and junk gin and four no-filter Camels make your heart pound.

Amanda Boyden

#52. Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.

Robyn Davidson

#53. It is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.

Rosita Forbes

#54. I have met guys who work the overnight shift at 7-11, selling Slurpees and Camels to insomniacs who have more introspection than a lot of people in the mainstream media.

Bernard Goldberg

#55. Men," she said rueful, "are the most absurd creatures on this green earth." "But there are camels," Gabriel pointed out. "Believe me," she answered. "I've taken camels into consideration.

Zoe Archer

#56. But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

F. E. Adcock

#57. When even camels can't manage a desert, you know you've found a tough part of the world.

Bill Bryson

#58. Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

George Herbert

#59. They argued that women of the prophet's era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The

Geraldine Brooks

#60. It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Richard Flanagan

#61. All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding patiently through the snow, ignoring the twentieth century as it hurtled past them in a clash of iron and a shriek of steam.

Ken Follett

#62. Texas liberals are the camels of good news. We can cross entire deserts between oases.

Molly Ivins

#63. Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they do so suddenly and with a force that is impossible to control.

Alaa Al Aswany

#64. She didn't like taking credit for other people's camels,

Rick Riordan

#65. Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools.

Robert A. Heinlein

#66. Tomorrow, sell our camel and buy a horse. Camels are traitorous: they walk thousands of paces and never seem to tire. Then suddenly, they kneel and die. But horses tire bit by bit. You always know how much you know you can ask of them, and when it is that they are about to die.

Paulo Coelho

#67. Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

Robyn Davidson

#68. Cats are like donkeys and camels, they won't ever quite give in to human tyranny, they won't try to imitate the human soul.

Richard Aldington

#69. Ananna of Tanarau is a delightfully irascible heroine, inhabiting a fascinating and fresh new world that I would love to spend more time in. Pirate ships? Camels? Shadow dwelling assassins? Yes please! Can I have some more?

Celine Kiernan

#70. Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.

Charles Dickens

#71. Our camels plodded along. Katrina tried to kiss, or possibly spit on Hindenburg, and Hindenburg farted in response. I found this a depressing commentary on boy-girl relationships.

Rick Riordan

#72. I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

Joe E. Lewis

#73. My mom once lost track of me at the zoo and when she found me I was lecturing a man about the difference between dromedary and Bactrian camels. I was about 3 1/2.

Patrick Rothfuss

#74. I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Rachel Weisz

#75. Well I come from a land,
from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam.
They will cut of your ear if they don't like your face,
it's babaric, but hey,
it's home.

Walt Disney Company

#76. As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner who obtains the offspring, even thus ,it is with the wives of others.

Guru Nanak

#77. If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels.

Lisa C. Temple

#78. As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

Akhenaton

#79. My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.

Louis L'Amour

#80. Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.

Noel Coward

#81. The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.

Amelia B. Edwards

#82. You take one step closer and I'll slit your throat, you mung-encrusted camel-fucker.

Peter Bagge

#83. [On the camel:] Its weak point is its morale, and it is here that so much depends on its human master. Discouragement is fatal ... it loses heart, sinks by the wayside and dies.

Mildred Cable

#84. A camel in distress isn't a shy creature. It doesn't hang around in bars, nursing a solitary drink. It doesn't phone up old friends and sob at them. It doesn't mope, or write long soulful poems about Life and how dreadful it is when seen from a bedsitter. It doesn't know what angst is.

Terry Pratchett

#85. And your stupid camel mask ...

Dean Ambrose

#86. As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

#87. What do we learn from the camel caravans? If you endure very hard conditions, you shall reach your challenging destination sooner or later!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#88. Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

Abu Nuwas

#89. No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

Laurence J. Peter

#90. Take off that darn fur coat! ... Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#91. I was hanging out in gers [yurts] with these Kazakh sort of Bedouins. Drank nasty-ass camel milk. The drive [from the Souther Gobi to Ulan Bator] is insane. It's like The Road.

Michelle Rodriguez

#92. In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.

Warren Beatty

#93. Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.

Nazr Mohammed

#94. The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.

Tom Callahan

#95. The arabs are a backward people who eat nothing but camel dung.

Winston Churchill

#96. [On the camel:] When it kneels to be laden it always grumbles, growls and shows resentment, but of this the driver takes no notice. He goes on loading up until the moment when the beast suddenly becomes silent; then he knows that the burden is heavy enough, and nothing more is added.

Mildred Cable

#97. The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?

Ogden Nash

#98. I smoke so much. Three packs a day ... I went to the bathroom, a camel came out of my ass.

Dave Attell

#99. You walk into the room like a camel and then put your eyes in your pockets and your nose on the ground.

Bob Dylan

#100. It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back.

Charles Dickens