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30 "Snail" Quotes

"Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails."

--- Al Yankovic

#Honesty #Snail #Nintendo

"A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem."

--- Alejo Carpentier

#Eye #Astonishment #Moths

"Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient."

--- Allan Bloom

#People #Raw Materials #Confrontation

"Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard?"

--- Allen Klein

#Knows #Running #Beats

"Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake and convulsion, and the feeling that you are a snail being pulled off your rock."

--- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#Lasts #Horrible #Earthquakes

"You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong."

--- Anne Sexton

#Animal #Bed #Breasts

"Geography is the key, the crucial accident of birth. A piece of protein could be a snail, a sea lion, or a systems analyst, but it had to start somewhere. This is not science; it is merely metaphor. And the landscape in which the protein "starts" shapes its end as surely as bowls shape water."

--- Annie Dillard

#Shapes #Ends #Keys

"There are no small number of people in this world who, solitary by nature, always try to go back into their shell like a hermit crab or a snail."

--- Anton Chekhov

#Small Numbers #People #This World

"I was a vegetarian for a really long time, from 7 to 23, so I feel like some things aren't that weird but they seem weird to me, like blood sausage or snails. Those are things I've eaten now that, years ago, it would have been totally improbable that I would have eaten."

--- Zoe Kazan

#Really Long #Feels #Long

"Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone."

--- Arthur Brisbane

#Rabbits #Change #Great Opportunity

"In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track."

--- Wright Morris

#Blur #Photograph #Snail

"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."

--- Wole Soyinka

#Dip #Pot #Snail

"Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."

--- William Shakespeare

#Procrastination #Beggary #Snail

"An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live."

--- William Cowper

#Evening #Steps #Crush

"Ask the world to reveal its quietude- not the silence of machines when they are still, but the true quiet by which birdsongs, trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, storms become what they are, and are nothing else."

--- Wendell Berry

#Silence #Asks #Storm

"Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail. Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail, Eat a whole fish except for the tail. Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale, And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails."

--- Big Daddy Kane

#Rap #Trash #Stamps

"I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!"

--- Bill Bailey

#Bows #Dominion #Humor

"You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency."

--- Bill Mollison

#Ducks #Deficiency #Snail

"A wife, domestic, good, and pure, Like snail, should keep within her door; But not, like snail, with silver track, Place all her wealth upon her back."

--- Walsham How

#Wealth #Doors #Wife

"How dominating is appetite, how enveloping immediate experience! Even the philosophically minded among us capitulate, ultimately, to the narrowest sense of personal need. Political time moves at a snail's pace because it is only with nearly insurmountable difficulty that moral discomfort takes root in the best of people, forcing an imperative out of a complaint; so viscerally repugnant is it for a critical mass to find the prevailing system unbearable, much less prepare to take up arms against it."

--- Vivian Gornick

#People #Prevailing #Arms

"Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move."

--- Brigitte Bardot

#I Can #Turtles #Moving

"In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire until they're crispy and eat them. They taste a little bit like creamy snails. But compared to sago, the sago beetle is really pretty good."

--- Tim Cahill

#Palms #Fire #Little Bit

"Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair fern and barfed it up on the carpet. Then he had apparently worked himself into a frenzy sharpening his ting by amazingly effective claws on the armrest of my dad's favorite chair. Now he was asleep on a pillow, curled up like a fuzzy little snail. "God, he's so cute," I said, shaking my head."

--- Cate Tiernan

#Shaking My Head #Said #Found

"It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a mass of sooty, shapeless slime, and he devours everything."

--- Celia Thaxter

#Animal #Description #Seems

"I am this fiery snail crawling home."

--- Charles Bukowski

#Fiery #Snail #Home

"Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with"

--- Charles Correa

#Attitude #Trails #Agendas

"I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he read, and made clammy tracks along the page (or so I fully believed) like a snail."

--- Charles Dickens

#Book #Fats #Made

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark."

--- Charles Spurgeon

#Ark #Life Changing #Positive

"By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats."

--- Charles Spurgeon

#Ark #May #Holes

"In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go."

--- Susan Cain

#People #Said #Animal

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