Quotes about camels (16 Quotes)


    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.



    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.

    Even if (the Bush administration) comes up with something that might be good, you always wonder about their motives. Is this just the camel's nose under the tent Is this just the beginning of a whole bunch of other interference.


    Journey of the Magi 'A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.' And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melti.

    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.

    ... indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders what wise hand teacheth them to doe what reason cannot teach us ruder heads stand amazed at those prodigious pieces of nature, Whales, Elephants, Dromidaries and Camels these I confesse, are the Colossus and Majestick pieces of her hand but in these narrow Engines there is more curious Mathematicks, and the civilitie of these little Citizens more neatly sets forth the wisdome of their Maker.

    When the sun is covered, And when the stars darken, And when the mountains are made to pass away, And when the camels are left untended, And when the wild animals are made to go forth, And when the seas are set on fire, And when souls are united, And when the female infant buried alive is asked For what sin she was killed, And when the books are spread, And when the heaven has its covering removed, And when the hell is kindled up, And when the garden is brought nigh, Every soul shall (then) know what it has prepared.

    You take one of those routes, it was probably a challenging route to begin with and we just look at the restructuring and the loss of the other flights as the straw that's going to break that camel's back.


    After giving water to Isaac's servant, Rebekah said 'I will draw water for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.'


    It's the analogy of the straw and the camel's back. We keep loading the camel's back with straw and higher energy prices and interest rates. It's probably going to be what's good for oil is going to be bad for the rest of the market.

    In their native land, pythons hang around wading bird rookeries. Our wading bird populations have declined because of insults we've done to their environment, and here we're throwing another insult at them. We're trying to restore their populations, but this could be the straw that breaks the camel's back.




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