Quotes about Shells

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. Votes: 6

I'll admit that I do quite like drinks that come in coconut shells. So there's always that. Votes: 6

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. Votes: 6

When I think of how things could have turned out, I feel as if I've dodged, not just bullets, but 6mm shells. Votes: 6

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. Votes: 6

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. Votes: 6

Nature has neither kernel Nor shell Votes: 4

Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell. Votes: 4

The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell. Votes: 4

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Votes: 4

I've learned that under everyone's hard shell is someone who wants to be appreciated and loved. Votes: 4

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 pleasures. Votes: 4

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. Votes: 4

Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego. Votes: 4

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world. Votes: 4

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit. Votes: 4

You want to know yourself. For this keep steadily in the focus of consciousness, the only clue you have: your certainty of being. Be with it, play with it, ponder over it, delve deeply into it, till the shell of ignorance breaks open and you emerge into the realm of reality. Votes: 4

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Votes: 4

But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there. Votes: 4

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 so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death. Votes: 4

Shells sink, dreams float. Life's good on our boat. Votes: 3

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore. Votes: 2

I'm a sportsman. You know, I go out clay shooting and put three shells in. Votes: 2

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail. Votes: 2

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own. Votes: 2

Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 2

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases. Votes: 2

A beach is not only a sweep of sand, but shells of sea creatures, the sea glass, the seaweed, the incongruous objects washed up by the ocean. Votes: 2

Thank you, hard taco shells, for surviving the long journey from factory, to supermarket, to my plate and then breaking the moment I put something inside you. Thank you. Votes: 2

Emotion is something that you don't simply receive. Emotion is compelled. Other than that, we're just shells until we're possessed or reanimated from time to time by different emotions. Votes: 2

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living. Votes: 2

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts. Votes: 2

The pressure to keep up with what society tells us is perfect is causing us to enter a time when women are no longer women, but plastic shells of what women used to be. Votes: 2

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal. Votes: 2

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle. Votes: 2

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. Votes: 2

Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different. Votes: 2

I just love mermaids. I was a mermaid in my past life. I just feel it when I go in the sea. I just feel a connection there between me, and the water, and the fish - they speak to me - and the shells - they ring out to me. Votes: 2

When I was a child growing up in Maine, one of my favorite things to do was to look for sand dollars on the seashores of Maine, because my parents told me it would bring me luck. But you know, these shells, they're hard to find. They're covered in sand. They're difficult to see. Votes: 2

I make some of my best recipes with a simple homemade stock. Keep shrimp shells stored in a plastic bag in the freezer. When you have almost a gallon-bag full, you can make a stock in 30 minutes that you can use in soups and sauces. You can then freeze the stock in ice-cube trays. Votes: 2

You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly. If any one person prior to the rash of puka shells, for example, was seen wearing puka shells, he would look like an idiot. But when everyone is wearing them, it instantly makes them normal. Votes: 2

E canchis amnia. Everything from shells. Votes: 0

Those with the softest hearts build the hardest shells. Votes: 0

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells. Votes: 0

Young women say I helped them come out of their shells Votes: 0

Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case... Votes: 0

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. Votes: 0

Creedless shells of men tottering down the causeways like migrants in a feverland. Votes: 0

People ate bread made of the shells of peas because there was no flour. Votes: 0

Our bodies are simply our shells, the package for the spirit and the soul. Votes: 0

The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside. Votes: 0

The science of fossil shells is the first step towards the study of the earth. Votes: 0

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word! Votes: 0

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. Votes: 0

We got hookers with heaters that'll stray pop and put more shells in your top than Adidas. Votes: 0

The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Votes: 0

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. Votes: 0

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life. Votes: 0

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells. Votes: 0

Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps adjusting the ash heaps; opening and shutting itself like an injured fan. Votes: 0

Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference! Votes: 0

It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a millionaire. Votes: 0

I got into foul trouble, so I really kind of had to play on egg shells from there on out. Votes: 0

There were big geysers coming up where the shells were landing and there were bodies floating, face down, face up. Votes: 0

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells. Votes: 0

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs. Votes: 0

He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells... Votes: 0

Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block. Votes: 0

Had I told the seaWhat I felt for you,It would have left its shores,Its shells,Its fish,And followed me. Votes: 0

A baby's feet, like sea-shells pink Might tempt, should heaven see meet, An angel's lips to kiss, we think, A baby's feet. Votes: 0

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. Votes: 0

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something. Votes: 0

Went to get coffee today-opened my change purse. Sea shells fell out. Barista goes "Sorry, we only take cash or credit." So there's that. Votes: 0

In my experience, telling someone to switch Unix shells for ease of use is like telling him to switch cigarette brands for his health. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 poor. Votes: 0

All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth. Votes: 0

As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison. Votes: 0

Put your hands where I can see 'em, so they look like 12 PM On the dot, see this Glock? Don't make me give these shells freedom. Votes: 0

I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases. Votes: 0

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity. Votes: 0

The pleased sea on a white-breasted shore-- A shore that wears on her alluring brows Rare shells, far brought, the love-gifts of the sea, That blushed a tell-tale. Votes: 0

When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently want that person to be thrilled. Votes: 0

The sky over London was glorious, ochre and madder, as though a dozen tropic suns were simultaneously setting round the horizon . . . Everywhere the shells sparkled like Christmas baubles. Votes: 0

Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be blown to pieces. Votes: 0

Books... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. Votes: 0

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history. Votes: 0

In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture. Votes: 0

I think we keep these moments of rejection and acceptance very close. I think we carry them always, like cracked shells from which a part of us once hatched. Votes: 0

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells and other spoils of the ocean. Votes: 0

It is good to realize that falling apart is not such a bad thing. Indeed, it is as essential to evolutionary and psychological transformation as the cracking of outgrown shells. Votes: 0

We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Votes: 0

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living." Votes: 0

He that buys land buys many stones, He that buys flesh buys many bones, He that buys eggs buys many shells, But he that buys good ale buys nothing else. Votes: 0

In Ireland, there are the same fossils, the same shells and the same sea bodies, as appear in America, and some of them are found in no other part of Europe. Votes: 0

I'm really into rocks. I have a really serious rock collection. Rocks and feathers and shells and strange found things in nature. I have a lot of those kinds of collections. Votes: 0

The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things. Votes: 0

Beware of those who are too focused with polishing and beautifying their outer shells. They lack true substance to understand that genuine beauty is reflected from the heart that resides inside. Votes: 0

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells. Votes: 0

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 of a pen or the point of a bayonet. Votes: 0

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 welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells. Votes: 0

Will Thisbee gave me The Beginner's Cook-Book for Girl Guides. It was just the thing; the writer assumes you know nothing about cookery and writes useful hints - "When adding eggs, break the shells first. Votes: 0

She did not talk to people as if they were strange hard shells she had to crack open to get inside. She talked as if she were already in the shell. In their very shell. Votes: 0

I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more. Votes: 0

Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells of some ocean animals. Ouch, how'd you like to have your shell dissolve? Votes: 0

Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... The conscious impulse to change one's appearance is found only among humans. Votes: 0