Shells Quotes

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

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

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.

The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells.

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.

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.

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

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.

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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