Eggshell Quotes

#1. I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.

Ricky Williams

#2. Use your beak energy not to blab but to poke through the eggshell.

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#3. Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding/Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind.

Jim Morrison

#4. Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood.

Buddha

#5. Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.

Leonard Cohen

#6. Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

Harlan Coben

#7. A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.

Colin Cotterill

#8. But I also felt like an eggshell that had gotten a tiny crack. You can't repair something like that. All you can do is hope that it sticks together, hope that the crack doesn't grow until all your insides come spilling right out.

Leila Sales

#9. I have often thought him since, like the steam hammer, that can crush a man or pat an eggshell, in his combination of strength with gentleness

Charles Dickens

#10. I don't want to reject my life. I want to change my life without changing my life.

Gretchen Rubin

#11. Exposing what is mortal and unsure To all that fortune, death, and danger dare, Even for an eggshell. Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honor's at the stake.

Peter Thiel

#12. Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts ... ... Knowing is KEY to acceptance.

Abby Espiritu

#14. The dew on the leaves before the sun rises.
The silence before the cock crows.
The eggshell not yet broken by its chick.
Not what is, but what might be.

John Speed

#15. I wanted to live in a house with walls painted in various shades of blue and green, instead of the eggshell hue that screamed renter.

Tayari Jones

#16. By many a temple half as old as Time.

Samuel Rogers

#17. The atmosphere almost looks like an eggshell on an egg, it's so thin. We know that we don't have much air - we need to protect what we have.

Eileen Collins

#18. Time: old cold time, old sorrow, settling down in layers like silt in a pond.

Margaret Atwood

#19. It's the difference between dancing along the eggshell crust of acquaintance and diving into the messy center of a relationship.

Jodi Picoult

#20. Life is to life in such a way that we are not afraid to die.

Teresa Of Avila

#21. In the human race today, you came last.

Spike Milligan

#22. The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!

Mireille Mathieu

#23. Problems are an important part of maturing
meet them straight on. Work them out. It's like the chick in the egg. It has to break through the eggshell on its own. That's how it gains its first strength. If you break the shell for the chick, you end up with a puny little runt.

Mark Tobey

#24. He imagined himself a mouse descending a clear stream in half an eggshell, the master of a comet enfolding a hollow world.

Gene Wolfe

#25. What they had between them was still as fragile as flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.

Cassandra Clare

#26. It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

C.J. Mahaney

#27. The Spoonsize Boys steal the dollhouse toys while the cat by the fire is curled. Then away they floats in their eggshell boats, down the drains to their underground world.

Tim Powers

#28. Always read something

Me

#29. Over the years, I'll admit, I lost the love for basketball a little bit.

Stephon Marbury

#30. For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don't matter.

Peter Thiel

#31. Like the terrestrial crust of the earth / which is proportionately ten times thinner than an eggshell, the skin of the soul / is a miracle of mutual pressures.

Anne Carson

#32. Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.

Susan Minot

#33. Though the 'Thou' is not an 'It', it is also not "another 'I'". He who treats a person as "another 'I'" does not really see that person but only a projected image of himself. Such a relation, despite the warmest "personal" feeling is really 'I'-'It'.

Mauric Friedman

#34. The broken eggshell of a civilization which time has hatched and devoured.

Julia Ward Howe

#35. After a winter's gestation in its eggshell of ice, the valley had beaked its way out into the open, moist and yellow.

Salman Rushdie