Camels Quotes · Page 2

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

— Greg Mortenson

Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

— George Herbert

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid

— Dave Barry

…and your stupid camel mask...

— Dean Ambrose

Christians and camels receive their burdens kneeling.

— Ambrose Bierce

It is a mistake trying to cheer up camels. You may as well drop meringues into a black hole.

— Terry Pratchett

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

— F. E. Adcock

Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.

— Brenda Holloway

Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.

— Robyn Davidson

“They argued that women of the prophet’s era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The”

— Geraldine Brooks

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

— Robyn Davidson

Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.

— Benjamin Disraeli

We don't like flowers that do not wilt; they must die, and nine she-camel hairs aid memory.

— Marianne Moore

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry…

— Saadi

Egyptians are like camels: they can put up with beatings, humiliation and starvation for a long time but when they rebel they…

— Alaa Al Aswany

Well I come from a land, from a far away place, where the caravan camels roam. They will cut of your ear…

— Anonymous

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of…

— Anonymous

When I got to Grinnell College, I was part of the black turtleneck sweater and Camel cigarette crowd of poets and writers.

— Peter Coyote

A camel is a horse designed by a committee and a committee's a sweet running piece of machinery compared to any government.

— Gordon R. Dickson

Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

As with cows, mares, female camels, slave girls, buffalo cows, she goats, and ewes, it is not the begetter ,or his owner…

— Guru Nanak

“All his life he would cherish the memory of an endless caravan of camels alongside the railway line, the laden beasts plodding…

— Ken Follett

So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands…

— Edgar Mitchell

Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in…

— Richard Dawkins

I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel. A person who doesn't love themselves, they will…

— Mary J. Blige

If that one is already a great artist, who knows how to educe from a small piece of wood the face of…

— Nicholas of Cusa

A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan,…

— Guy Steele

“I, like balloon animal hacks everywhere, can only make one animal so far. It is a LEGO version of the Island of…

— Jonathan Bender

Kools and Newports were for black people and lower-class whites. Camels were for procrastinators, those who wrote bad poetry, and those who…

— David Sedaris

... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them…

— Thomas Browne

On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to…

— Jorge Luis Borges

Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now,…

— Tina Fey

We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old.…

— Tom Shadyac

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

— Charles Dickens

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

— Amanda Boyden

Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret: The million other straws underneath it.

— Mos Def

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

— Rose Macaulay

A camel that always moves with the camel caravan cannot discover the beauties of the unknown oases!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Never get the saying wrong on camels day ... I'm telling you now DO NOT... beware of the camel stay safe kids...

— Natalya Johnson

I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.

— Spalding Gray