Eggshell Quotes

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

Jim Morrison

#2. 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

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

Julia Ward Howe

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Gene Wolfe

#10. 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

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

Jodi Picoult

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

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#15. 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

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

Harlan Coben

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

Colin Cotterill

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

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

Stephon Marbury

#24. Always read something

Me

#25. 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

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

Mireille Mathieu

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

Spike Milligan

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

Teresa Of Avila

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

Margaret Atwood

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

Samuel Rogers

#31. 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

#32. 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.

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

Gretchen Rubin

#34. 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

#35. 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