Crabs Quotes
81 quotes by 76 authors
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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
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You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and…
— Winfield Scott
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The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. Here you have a million crabs…
— Paul Fleischman
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He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises…
— Andrew Jackson Downing
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Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the…
— Pablo Neruda
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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
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Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world ... I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things…
— Grete Waitz
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I got body lice in Germany! I'd tell you they were crabs, but I wasn't getting laid.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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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
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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
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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
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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
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If we are so contemptibly selfish that we can’t radiate a little happiness and pass on a bit of honest appreciation without trying to screw…
— Dale Carnegie
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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
— Aristophanes
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O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.
— Charles Olson
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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
Who Wrote These Crabs Quotes
76 authors contributed a total of 81 Crabs Quotes, led by these top contributors: