Shell Quotes

460 quotes by 410 authors

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and… — William Tecumseh Sherman
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only… — Wole Soyinka
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in… — James Surowiecki
I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are.… — Ricky Williams
It is an awfully sad misconception that librarians simply check books in and out. The library is the heart of a school, and without a… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of… — Khalil Gibran
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving… — Ernest Hemingway
A heartless hand on my shoulder A push and it's over Alabaster crashes down Six months is a long time Tried living in the real… — Steven Morrissey
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too. — Matsuo Basho
Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. — Rick Bragg
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the… — Mitch Albom
Dawn was breaking over the horizon, shell pink and faintly gold... — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
From the place by the railing at the edge of the tracks on the summer evening I return across the city to my own room.… — Sherwood Anderson
I knew that our time together was almost over, I asked her if she liked sports, she asked me if I liked chess, I asked… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they're able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of… — Haruki Murakami
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the… — Lynda Barry
Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a… — William Butler Yeats

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410 authors contributed a total of 460 Shell Quotes, led by these top contributors: