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Quotes About Camel

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
The cold breeze and the cold of Richard's Camel were mixing like joy and remorse.
~ Jonathan Franzen
There is a better chance of seeing a camel pass through the eye of a needle than of seeing a really great man 'discovered' through an election.
~ Adolf Hitler
There's a joke that I do where I make fun of myself for being bow-legged, and I compare myself to a camel and how a camel walks and sits, and that has become a joke that people - when I deliver that joke, people are in tears.
~ Anjelah Johnson
Among the loose animals, the Keeper's sick camel, a lady of brittle temper, had bobbed her tassels and sunk her yellow teeth three times into unguarded flesh; the dwarf ass brayed itself hoarse and the lion cubs, dear to Abernaci's heart, had shambled off, humping their fat, sandy rumps, to feast among the spilled milk in the wrecked kitchens.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Au bout de la piste on trouve toujours ou le chameau ou le proprietaire du chameau . . .
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Does anyone know how many women he actually has in his tent?' 'I rather doubt,' said Lancelot Plummer a shade self-consciously, 'if he is at present dealing with women.' 'The last time I passed his tent,' said Alec Guthrie sourly, 'there was a camel in it.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Oh, Fairy Wogdog!' cried Rowsby Woof, dribbling and piddling all over the gravel. 'Ah, what elegance! What aristocratic distinction! Can that really be decayed cat that I smell? With a delicate overtone of rotten camel! Ah, the gorgeous East!
~ Richard Adams
Expediency is a law of nature. The camel is a wonderful animal, but the desert made the camel.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
And here might be the moment to squirt one perfect tear, all bittersweet and shimmering with dreamy resignation. Except that as the serpent once sunned its coils in Eden, patiently awaiting the opportunity to let the biggest cat in eternity out of the sturdiest bag, so a pack of Camel cigarettes stands in these wings, waiting to come on and do its most unexpected stuff.
~ David Carr
Experts say that Iraq may have nuclear weapons. That's bad news - they may have a nuclear bomb. Now the good news is that they have to drop it with a camel.
~ David Letterman
I named my camel Katrina. She was a natural disaster. She slobbered everywhere and seemed to think the purple streak in my hair was some kind of exotic fruit. She was obsessed with trying to eat my head. I named Walt's camel Hindenburg. He was almost as large as a zeppelin and definitely as full of gas.
~ Rick Riordan
After a while, two teenage boys served a meal of stew with bread. Abdul thought the boys had probably done the cooking themselves. He suspected that the chewy meat was camel, but he did not ask. Afterward the boys cleaned up in a perfunctory way, leaving scraps on the ground. Men without women were slobs everywhere, Abdul thought.
~ Ken Follett
Quería al animal tanto como un hombre puede querer a un camello, lo que equivale a decir que solo lo odiaba un poco.
~ Ken Follett
Mrs. Margaret sigh heavy. Then she standing up, and starting make her own tea. She drink it in very thirsty way, like angry camel in the desert.
~ Xiaolu Guo
Camel-nose laughed deep in his muscled throat as if I'd just told him the one about the lumberjack and the water barrel. But he didn't relax his hold on my wrist.
~ Richard S. Prather
As Jesus said, 'It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God' (Matthew 19:24).
~ Yuval Noah Harari
In a road-mender's hut near Vézelay they found a message scrawled on the wall: "La vie est un desert, la femme un chameau. Pour voir le desert il faut monter sur le chameau." ("Life is a desert, woman is a camel. If you want to see the desert you have to ride the camel.")
~ Amanda Vaill
There is an Arabic saying that the soul travels at the pace of a camel. While most of us are led by the strict demands of timetables and diaries, our soul, the seat of the heart, trails nostalgically behind, burdened by the weight of memory. If every love affair adds a certain weight to the camel's load, then we can expect the soul to slow according to the significance of love's burden.
~ Alain de Botton
the earth under his feet, Timoken said, "I'm going for my camel." "Your camel!" the wizard
~ Jenny Nimmo
You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel," Terry Tarsal rudley broke into Marcia's spinning thoughts.
~ Angie Sage
You could give us a hand instead of staring into space like a constipated camel.
~ Angie Sage
It was as peaceful and beautiful a night as she could ever have imagined, and she understood what drew the Bedouins to this barren place and kept them there. When the sun rose, the distant rocks took on the most magnificent hues—the peachy gold and pale strawberry and pistachio green of ice cream—and Simone was quick to mount a camel and, with spurs and a riding crop, urge it on.
~ Robert Masello
And so it easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a teenager to enter the kingdom of heaven listening to the Dave Matthews Band.
~ Douglas Wilson