Top 33 Quotes About Conch
#1. I took the conch shell and set it to my ear. Its susurrus sounded less like the sea than the labored breathing of a tiring runner. No doubt I heard what I was listening for.
Ross Macdonald
#2. The women's song was always the same, as monotonous as the beating of the waves against the beach: loss, loss. The conch offered them no enchantment. When they put their ear to it, all they heard was the echo of their mourning.
Carsten Jensen
#3. If she was going to write a novel, she felt defeated before she began, because someone might be coming along to pick it apart, looking for symbols like The Conch or The Whale, which seemed to have mythic proportions.
L.L. Barkat
#4. Hi mam I am Divya studying 2nd year English I am doing research about you so please tell me the relation of Anand in Conch series which compared to foreign culture
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#5. If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued."
"If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.
William Golding
#6. Like a garish conch shell, my cynicism protected me from disappointment, or so I believed, so I expected the worst and smirked when I found it.
Rachel Held Evans
#7. In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when.
Max De Pree
#8. An angelfish priestess in anemone drag sat on a post and wished that she were a conch man.
Stepan Chapman
#9. And the heart sounds like a sour conch,
calls, oh sea, oh lament, oh molten panic,
scattered in the unlucky and disheveled waves:
the sea reports sonorously
on its languid shadows, its green poppies.
Pablo Neruda
#10. Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But
Charles C. Mann
#11. He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless. Or was it?
William Golding
#12. If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you will hear an alibi.
Fred Beck
#13. If I replaced my ears with conch shells, would you surf on the sound waves?
Jarod Kintz
#14. -I got the conch!" --Piggy (in Lord of the Flies), attempting Democracy
William Golding
#15. The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
William Golding
#16. Asceticism doesn't lie in ascetic robes or in walking staff nor in the ashes. Asceticism doesn't lie in the earring nor in the shaven head nor blowing a conch. Asceticism lies in remaining pure amidst impurities.
Guru Nanak
#17. Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.
Tom Robbins
#18. My girl, there are three kinds of people in the world: the outstanding, the mediocre, and the truly hopeless.
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
#19. they propound mathematical theorems in beleaguered cities, conduct metaphysical arguments in condemned cells, make jokes on scaffolds.
C.S. Lewis
#20. An Israeli who thinks that his government is doing everything right wouldn't join the Divan Orchestra in the first place.
Daniel Barenboim
#21. He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.
Brenna Yovanoff
#22. We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.
Aristotle.
#23. What kind of incompetence is this, leaving dangerous fiends like us alone to commit mischief?
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
#24. When I'm around you, I feel too drunk to speak to you. And I've never even tasted alcohol before, but I'm sure kissing you is what being drunk feels like. If that's the case, I'm already worried for my sobriety because I can see myself becoming addicted to kissing you..
Colleen Hoover
#25. I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts.
Douglas Coupland
#26. When you're in the pits, all the faith in the world won't get you out of it. But just a little faith in God will get you through it.
Ken Hutcherson
#27. Our bodies form a symbol, I think, as powerful as one of Hal's - and it occurs to me that the most meaningful symbols of all must be based on all the different ways two people can embrace.
Neal Shusterman
#28. You have to say no to something else, in order to make time to pray.
Peter Kreeft
#29. If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that "Bill O'Reilly is wrong on this" or "here's an opposing view of Bill O'Reilly".
Glenn Beck
#30. FORGIVING is FOR GIVING to others and if it is meant FOR GETTING to ourselves then should it not be termed as FORGETTING ourselves.
Anuj
#31. Our Problem and Difficulty in Life is that we Never know if we Give our Heart away to the Right Person.
Jan Jansen
#32. Honey can prevent seasonal allergies, heal a cut, soothe a burn, and get rid of your pimples. Miles
Wendy Mass
