Camels famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.
-- Abdelkader El Djezairi -
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
-- Abu Nuwas -
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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 -
A camel looks like a horse that was planned by a committee.
-- Alec Issigonis -
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Then when Gladys Knight came in to do my songs that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
-- Brenda Holloway -
It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands...
-- Charlton Heston -
But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.
-- F. E. Adcock -
A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.
-- George Eliot -
When I take action, I'm not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It's going to be decisive.
-- George W. Bush -
I can't actually see myself putting make-up on my face at the age of sixty, but I can see myself going on a camel train to Samarkand.
-- Glenda Jackson -
Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu
-- Greg Mortenson -
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 -
A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal - Panama
-- Guy Steele -
Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure, But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.
-- Hafez -
A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.
-- Jackie Kennedy -
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 -
When I want to draw a camel I no longer limit myself, as I once did, to looking only at camels.
-- Jean Dubuffet -
The red Sahara in an angry glow, / With amber fogs, across its hollows trailed / Long strings of camels, gloomy-eyed and slow ...
-- Jean Ingelow -
You need shoving, not pushing. You need to jump back on that camel. Otherwise you're going to stay up on the ledge you've made for yourself.
-- Jennifer Niven -
Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
-- Jim Butcher -
I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.
-- Joe E. Lewis -
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 -
I want you to see that the person I glimpsed running beside the camel, running to save my life, is the person you can choose to be.
-- Lucy Christopher -
I thought you wanted to catch a camel," you tried again. "No." "I want to." "Well, you go then." You laughed. "I want your beautiful face where I can see it
-- Lucy Christopher -
[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 -
[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 -
Tie your camel up as best you can, and then trust it to Providence.
-- Nazr Mohammed -
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in the most poetic sense, see any virtue in the preservation of the cheetah species. They are not working to save the cheetah from extinction like some molecular World Wildlife Fund.
-- Richard Dawkins -
Camel trips, as I suspected all along, and as I was about to have confirmed, do not being or end: they mere change form.
-- Robyn Davidson -
I refer to jet lag as 'jet-psychosis - there's an old saying that the spirit cannot move faster than a camel.
-- Spalding Gray -
The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.
-- Thomas Adams -
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 -
My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.
-- Louis L'Amour -
I visited the set [of Allied] a few times, and it was a great set to visit. A lot of it was in West London, in an old Gillette factory. You'd go into the factory through the security, and then there were a lot of camels and goats. Most sets are really dull, but this was fantastic.
-- Steven Knight -
The America's Cup, yachting's great and garish grail, is a tumorous tureen no handsomer than a camel.
-- Tom Callahan -
The camel has his virtues - so much at least must be admitted; but they do not lie upon the surface.
-- Amelia B. Edwards -
I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.
-- Edward Herrmann -
it is a curious fact that camels walk more quickly and straighter to the sound of singing.
-- Rosita Forbes -
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
