Shells Quotes

487 quotes by 430 authors

The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
OYSTER, n. A slimy, gobby shellfish which civilization gives men the hardihood to eat without removing its entrails! The shells are sometimes given to the… — Ambrose Bierce
I am pure light, not just a fistful of clay. The shell is not me, I came as the royal pearl within. Look at me… — Rumi
I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles… — Leonardo da Vinci
I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. — Andy Rooney
The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with… — H.G. Wells
Now it is you who everyone presumes is so fragile. Wounded. Scarred. Maybe they're right. Perhaps you are. A nursery rhyme comes into your head,… — Chris Bohjalian
I'll protect myself by making up all this crazy stuff. It'll be like a little shell. Like an Easter egg shell that's all decorated. — Edie Brickell
All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When… — Eddie Murphy
The judge who sits over the murderer and looks into his face, and at one moment recognizes all the emotions and potentialities and possibilities of… — Hermann Hesse
'I shall have heaven and earth for my coffin and its shell; the sun and moon for my two round symbols of jade, the stars… — Zhuangzi
Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner… — Marcel Proust
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan
The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the… — Meister Eckhart
Now that I know that each star has its path, each bird is finally feathered and grown in the unbroken shell, each tree in the… — Judith Wright
I want to live my life without filters. I don't walk on egg shells. I say what I want and I'm a very free spirit. — Demi Lovato
It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should? — Epictetus
Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening… — Sara Wiseman
If we begin to get in touch with whatever we feel with some kind of kindness, our protective shells will melt, and we'll find that… — Pema Chodron

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