Things People Have Said About Camels: A Collection Of Quotes

"I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go

through the eye of a needle than for a

rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven."  

~  Jesus Christ

"A camel is a very hard animal to ride, 

and it's very hard to get used to 

because they're not very graceful."  

~  Gigi Hadid

"A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane."  

~  Jackie Kennedy

"At twenty a man is a peacock, 

at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, 

at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, 

at eighty nothing at all."  

~  Baltasar Gracián

"A camel is a horse designed by committee." 

 ~  Alec Issigonis

"I used to think I was ugly. I thought I looked like a camel.

A person who doesn't love themselves, they will see 

anything that pops up on their face. I've seen squirrels, I've 

seen a bird, and I've seen all kinds of animals on my face. 

But that is the result of self-hate. I've learned to say: 

'You know what? I am a beautiful black woman.'"  

~  Mary J. Blige

"Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; 

you may be freeing him from being a camel."  

~  G.K. Chesterton

"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

"In an enclosed space, a camel's breath can change

the atmosphere of the room. Not only just the

smell, they literally seem to change the atmospheric 

pressure. It's so disgusting. It's like they have eight 

stomachs each more rancid than the next 

and it just comes out of their mouth."  

~  Steve Carell

"Let me say this: Camel is delicious, 

but when handled improperly, it's rank."  

~  Andrew Zimmern

"I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than

give what is sometimes called an 'in-depth interview.'"  

~  Warren Beatty

"If one commits the act of sodomy with a cow, 

an ewe, or a camel, their urine and their excrements 

become impure, and even their milk may no longer

be consumed. The animal must then be killed 

and as quickly as possible and burned."  

~  Ruhollah Khomeini

"After thirty years of being 'the camel lady,' 

believe me: One becomes inured to the spotlight.'"  

~  Robyn Davidson

"Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships 

or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural 

process at work. So, too, perhaps, are our lives." 

~  Roger Ebert

"I distrust camels, and anyone else 

who can go a week without a drink."  

~  Joe E. Lewis

"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."  

~  Rachel Weisz

"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."  

~  William John Wills