Camels Quotes - Page 7

• Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Flying High, Sight, Here I Am

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• Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain't no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

  Sara Gruen

  Two, Bottles, Hey

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• 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

  Thinking, Hair, Purple

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.190, Penguin UK

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• Luxury cruises were designed to make something unbearable (a two week transatlantic crossing) seem bearable. There's no need to do it now, there are planes. You wouldn't take a vacation where you ride on a stage coach for two months but there's all-you-can-eat shrimp. You wouldn't take a vacation where you had an old-timey appendectomy without anesthesia while steel drums play. You might take a vacation while riding on a camel for two days IF they gave you those little animal towels wearing your sunglasses.

  Tina Fey

  Animal, Vacation, Play

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

  Abu Nuwas

  Desert, Tents, Milk

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• A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

  George Eliot

  Horse, Believe, Superstitions

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.45, Wordsworth Editions

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• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  Freya Stark

  Silly, Animal, House

  Freya Stark (2011). “A Winter in Arabia: A Journey Through Yemen”, p.121, The Overlook Press

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• The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.

  Freya Stark

  Doubt, Usual, Comfort

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

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• 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

  Age, Faces, Aging

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• [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

  Heart, Weak Points, Discouragement

  Mildred Cable, Francesca French (1944). “The Gobi Desert”

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• 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

  Grass, Throwing, Ingenuity

  Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”

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• My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Daughter, Fall, Mean

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Either/ Or”

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• 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

  Mom, Zoos, Men

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