Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

Break the Shellâ€: â€œChild, itâ€™s time to break the shell Lifeâ€™s gonna hurt but itâ€™s meant to be felt You cannot touch the sky from… — India.Arie
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to… — Mary Gaitskill
War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up… — Mary Roberts Rinehart
In the name of what - except perhaps the coefficient of rarity - does man adorn himself with necklaces of shells and not spider's webs,… — Jean Dubuffet
I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos â€“ in which my existence was a random roll… — Charles Stross
Sit back picture yourself swooping up a shell of purple with foam crests of crystal drops soft nigh they fall unto the sea of morning… — Robert Hunter
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate… — Robert Greene
People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell. — Jackson Pollock
If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. — Maurice Ravel
From the clayey soil of northern Wyoming is mined bentonite, which is used as filler in candy, gum, and lipstick. We Americans are great on… — Gretel Ehrlich
I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I… — Goran Ivanisevic
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. — John Bunyan
Nature has neither kernel Nor shell — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital… — Gaston Bachelard
My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought… — Alexander McQueen
Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. — Learned Hand
Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. — Khalil Gibran
Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful… — Gene Simmons
Events are only the shells of ideas; and often it is the fluent thought of ages that is crystallized in a moment by the stroke… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
True freedom and the end of suffering is living in such a way as if you had completely chosen whatever you feel or experience at… — Eckhart Tolle

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