Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

One of the penalties of an ecological education is that one lives alone in a world of wounds. Much of the damage inflicted on land… — Aldo Leopold
It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you. — Ernest Rutherford
On the evenings when my parents held parties, the drawing-room mirrors multiplied to infinity the scintillations of a crystal chandelier. Mama would take her seat… — Simone de Beauvoir
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes
There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade… — Albert Camus
People are like moths. First they are ugly and awkward, until they break out of their shell and become a beautiful butterfly. — Drew Barrymore
Maybe i would become a mermaid... i would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones,… — Francesca Lia Block
maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach (to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell that sang so sweetly… — E E Cummings
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your… — Dorothy Allison
He thinks of that ocean house and wishes he were back in his former life or that one could take one moment and remain inside… — Stephen Dobyns
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table. — Gustave Flaubert
I am an obscure and patient pearl-fisherman who dives into the deepest waters and comes up with empty hands and a blue face. Some fatal… — Gustave Flaubert
We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all;… — Erich Maria Remarque
He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste… — Jon Krakauer
I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that… — Jodi Picoult
An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind. .... Something incredibly important - .. - had disappeared from Miu for good.… — Haruki Murakami
It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it?… — Francesca Lia Block

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