Crawling Quotes
154 quotes by 137 authors
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of…
— H. L. Mencken
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There have been countless times where I've worked out with my kids crawling around all over the place. You just make it work.
— Gwyneth Paltrow
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I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're…
— Tom Waits
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Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever…
— Harold Wilson
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There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of…
— Edward Abbey
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Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), `you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings are thin slices…
— Lewis Carroll
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Hallucinations are bad enough. But after awhile you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I grew into it. It grew into me. It and I blurred at the edges, became one amorphous, seeping, crawling thing.
— Marya Hornbacher
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People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling…
— Matthew Tobin Anderson
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... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
— Dylan Thomas
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I had paid for my folly and, as a reward, was invited to take part in the nest builder’s performance piece. The script was great.…
— David Sedaris
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You use the word "Infinity" very glibly.... Have you ever been there? Time and space are extensions of the mind, the will. Which means that…
— Mike Carey
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I am this fiery snail crawling home.
— Charles Bukowski
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crawling up into daddy's lap when dad was still DADDY nodding my head against his chest soaking in the comfort of his heart LISTENING to…
— Ellen Hopkins
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You guys just wait and see. We'll stand taller than these mountains. We'll bare open our hearts for the world to grab. We'll see lights…
— Douglas Coupland
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We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Zombies smell worse than anything you can imagine if you haven’t been hunting things on the dark side of the world. It’s a ripe, gassy…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet?…
— Bertrand Russell
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That’s exactly what I’m talking about. That’s the evil that’s seducing you. The malevolent power that is crawling through your blood tempting you onto a…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under…
— Ray Bradbury
Who Wrote These Crawling Quotes
137 authors contributed a total of 154 Crawling Quotes, led by these top contributors: