Sea Shell Quotes

• At the beach, life is different. Time doesn't move hour to hour but mood to moment. We live by the currents, plan by the tides, and follow the sun.

  Sandy Gingras

  Beach, Ocean, Moving

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• I have a large sea shell collection which I keep scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it.

  Steven Wright

  Beach, Sea, Shells

  "I Have a Pony". Live album by Steven Wright, track 09, 1985.

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• For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Beach, Ocean

  E. E. Cummings, “Maggie And Milly And Molly And May”

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• If you should take the human heart and listen to it, it would be like listening to a sea-shell; you would hear in it the hollow murmur of the infinite ocean to which it belongs, from which it draws its profoundest inspiration, and for which it yearns.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Inspiration, Heart

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• The flood subsides, and the body, like a worn sea-shell
  emerges strange and lovely.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sea, Lovely, Body

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6885, Delphi Classics

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• The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Trust, Truth, Ocean

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• I like to take the time out to listen to the trees, much in the same way that I listen to a sea shell, holding my ear against the rough bark of the trunk, hearing the inner singing of the sap. It's a lovely sound, the beating of the heart of the tree.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Heart, Sea, Tree

  Madeleine L'Engle (1986). “A Stone for a Pillow”, Shaw

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• There must be something beyond man in this world. Even on attaining to his highest possibilities, he is like a bird beating against his cage. There is something beyond, O deathless like a sea-shell, moaning for the bosom of the ocean to which you belong!

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Ocean, Men, Sea

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• 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.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• She hardly ever thought of him. He had worn a place for himself in some corner of her heart, as a sea shell, always boring against the rock, might do. The making of the place had been her pain. But now the shell was safely in the rock. It was lodged, and ground no longer.

  T. H. White

  Pain, Heart, Unrequited Love

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.366, Penguin

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

  William S. Burroughs

  Dream, Wall, Sleep

  William S. Burroughs (1984). “Naked lunch”, Grove Pr

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• 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.

  Taylor Swift

  Sorry, Coffee, Sea

  Twitter post from Jun 23, 2012

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• 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.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Baby, Angel, Kissing

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1328, Delphi Classics

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• I like the way the morning can be stormy and the afternoon clear and sparkly as a jewel in the water. Put your hand in the water to reach for a sea urchin or a sea shell, and the thing desired never quite lies where you had lined it up to be. The same is true of love. In prospect or contemplation, love is where it seems to be. Reach in to lift it out and your hand misses

  Jeanette Winterson

  Morning, Lying, Love Is

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• When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.

  David Crosby

  Santa Barbara, Years, Sea

  FaceBook post by David Crosby from Jun 13, 2013

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