56 Quotes About Oysters

  • Author Robin McKinley
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    ...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

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  • Author Marcel Proust
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    Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

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  • Author Ross Perot
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    My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

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  • Author Fred Rogers
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    I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

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  • Author Jean-Paul Sartre
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    It is not a matter of indifference whether we like oysters or clams, snails or shrimp, if only we know how to unravel the existential significance of these foods.

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  • Author Paul Stamets
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    Although oyster mushrooms have been studied extensively and support health in a number of ways, it is also extremely important to always cook oyster mushrooms!

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