Quotes About The Conch Shell

#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. 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

#3. Never forget the glory of human nature! We are the greatest god.. Christs and Buddhas are but waves in the boundless ocean which I AM.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. Every challenge is a chance to become a champion.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#5. I suppose my mother could have been a witch if she had chosen to. But she met my father, who was a rather saintly clergyman, and he cancelled her out.

Mary Stewart

#6. You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind - your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity - is all that ends at death.

Dan Millman

#7. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Thomas Carlyle

#8. Football is my love. Football is what I'm going to do. I'm a football player first.

Tony Gonzalez

#9. Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself.

Daniel Radcliffe

#10. For some a gift is only a symbol of their own superior position, which makes it not a gift at all.

J.D. Robb

#11. 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

#12. Not naive,' Conch shell had corrected him. 'He simply has not been taught to fear the things you fear.

Tom Robbins

#13. My goal is to never stop growing.

Monica Wright

#14. I hate kitchens. I don't understand these enormous American kitchens that take up half the living room and then they just order pizza.

Marina Abramovic

#15. 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

#16. Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.

Alec-Tweedie

#17. We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.

Frederick Lenz