Limpets Quotes

#1. Hmm what wine is this love thing that your species has, not necessary even on a good day, but like a mob of maniac limpets you cling to it.

Steve Merrick

#2. In the West we cling to the past like limpets. In Haiti the present is the axis of all life. As in Africa, past and future are but distant measures of the present, and memories are as meaningless as promises.

Wade Davis

#3. Limpets need high-strength teeth to rasp over rock surfaces and remove algae for feeding when the tide is in, we discovered that the fibres of goethite are just the right size to make up a resilient composite structure.

Asa Baber

#4. In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

A.S. Byatt

#5. Her metaphors for her children included barnacles encrusting a ship and limpets clinging to a rock.

Margaret Atwood

#6. My nephew. He was a law student. A good Christian. He never kept girlfriends. He never missed a ceremonial meal.

S.A. David

#7. By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#8. A dancer, if she is great, can give to the people something that they can carry with them forever. They can never forget it, and it has changed them, though they may never know it.

Isadora Duncan

#9. We have at our fingertips every pleasure that man is capable of enjoying, and man has abused every gift God ever gave him.

Billy Graham

#10. I've always envied people who compose music or paint, because they don't have to be bothered with the sort of crude mess that language normally is, in everyday life and in the way we use it.

Franz Wright

#11. And from the midst of cheerless gloom
I passed to bright unclouded day.

Emily Bronte

#12. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Dalai Lama XIV