Cockle Shell Quotes & Sayings

But since Pontus [the Sea] was male, only the sea creatures that lived in the sea could aspire to be Aphrodite's mother. And it was for this reason that Aphrodite's birth was delayed for so long. As Himeros & Chaos did not want to be born by a sea creature. And thus, Uranus' seed & testicles tossed & tossed on the waves for hundreds of years before Himeros & Chaos reached a compromise. Aphrodite would be born from a cockle, Konche, & Himeros & Chaos would be the shell of the baby cockle. — Nicholas Chong

Angels had fallen, men have sinned.
It does not mean that God has failed. — Toba Beta

There is nothing more important one mortal man can do for another, in the area of restoring health, other than correct vertebral subluxations, step back and allow the innate intelligence of the body to express itself. — Joseph Strauss

You were asking about the happy people: Well, they don't live on our planet, you see; we'll just have to wait, my boy! On this one human beings are not human beings. They are seamen and farmers and miners and lumberjacks; they are tramps and preachers and professors; they are this and that and the other. And happiness departed from them when they left off being human beings and became this other; for then strife began. — O.E. Rolvaag, Boat Of Longing

Once she was separated from the cockles & clams, she found herself miraculously transformed into a Goddess. But she found herself different from the Goddesses & Nymphs of the sea because of the girdle. It clung to her body as a second skin, or as the shell clung to the cockle, & she had never been able to take it off. And thus, she herself had never known what she hid beneath the girdle. — Nicholas Chong

A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God! — William Beveridge

I believe in health care reform. — Joe Manchin

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for. — Lev Grossman

You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you. — Rachel Brosnahan

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope — Carl F. H. Henry