Crab Quotes

67 quotes by 62 authors

My father was a preacher in Maryland and we had crab feasts - with corn on the cob, but no beer, being Methodist - outside… — Tori Amos
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and… — Henry David Thoreau
She had only to stand in the orchard, to put her hand on a little crab tree and look up at the apples, to make… — Willa Cather
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort… — Victor Hugo
I do like the ocean wave, actually. I'm born under the sign of Cancer - the sign of the crab - so I like coastal… — Anjelica Huston
One night I was in bed-and remember that I'm on the second floor of a hotel-when I spotted this crab coming toward me across the… — Jennifer Esposito
This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember. — Norman Fell
Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress."… — Khalil Gibran
As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I… — Thom Yorke
Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and… — Leonardo da Vinci
If we are so contemptibly selfish that we canâ€™t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw… — Dale Carnegie
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. — Aristophanes
O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now. — Charles Olson
What is the pattern that connects the crab to the lobster and the primrose to the orchid, and all of them to me, and me… — Gregory Bateson
Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel. — Richard Russo
The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket. — Steven Pressfield
I've always wanted to be a giant space crab. — Gabe Newell
Zinedine Zidane could be a champion sumo wrestler. He can run like a crab or a gazelle. — Howard Wilkinson
You cannot make a crab walk straight. — Aristophanes
Loneliness is necessary for pure poetry. When someone intrudes into the poet's life (and any sudden personal contact, whether in the bed or in the… — Jack Spicer

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