Best Starfish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“... And when the giant clam opened you were standing there dressed only in kelps and weeds of the ocean. And you held in your hand a starfish, and you said, 'Take, my Queen, this is for you. I bring you the stars, the stars from the borderless sea.”

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Book:Theatre of the Gods

Source: Theatre of the Gods

“In the vast oceanic universe starfishes are the stars in the sky of the shore...”

Universe Stars Beauty Sky Ocean Star Fish Starfish

Author:Munia Khan

“I'm a starfish, taking up all the room I want.”

Space Confidence Room Starfish

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“As soon as I slip into the pool, I am weightless. Limitless. For just a while.”

Poetry Middle Grade Starfish In Verse

Book:Starfish

Source: Starfish

“Doc was collecting marine animals in the Great Tide Pool on the tip of the Peninsula. It is a fabulous place: when the tide is in, a wave-churned basin, creamy with foam, whipped by the combers that roll in from the whistling buoy on the reef. But when the tide goes out the little water world becomes quiet and lovely. The sea is very clear and the bottom becomes fantastic with hurrying, fighting, feeding, breeding animals. Crabs rush from frond to frond of the waving algae. Starfish squat over mussels and limpets, attach their million little suckers and then slowly lift with incredible power until the prey is broken from the rock. And then the starfish stomach comes out and envelops its food. Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers. And black eels poke their heads out of crevices and wait for prey. The snapping shrimps with their trigger claws pop loudly. The lovely, colored world is glassed over. Hermit crabs like frantic children scamper on the bottom sand. And now one, finding an empty snail shell he likes better than his own, creeps out, exposing his soft body to the enemy for a moment, and then pops into the new shell. A wave breaks over the barrier, and churns the glassy water for a moment and mixes bubbles into the pool, and then it clears and is tranquil and lovely and murderous again. Here a crab tears a leg from his brother. The anemones expand like soft and brilliant flowers, inviting any tired and perplexed animal to lie for a moment in their arms, and when some small crab or little tide-pool Johnnie accepts the green and purple invitation, the petals whip in, the stinging cells shoot tiny narcotic needles into the prey and it grows weak and perhaps sleepy while the searing caustic digestive acids melt its body down. Then the creeping murderer, the octopus, steals out, slowly, softly, moving like a gray mist, pretending now to be a bit of weed, now a rock, now a lump of decaying meat while its evil goat eyes watch coldly. It oozes and flows toward a feeding crab, and as it comes close its yellow eyes burn and its body turns rosy with the pulsing color of anticipation and rage. Then suddenly it runs lightly on the tips of its arms, as ferociously as a charging cat. It leaps savagely on the crab, there is a puff of black fluid, and the struggling mass is obscured in the sepia cloud while the octopus murders the crab. On the exposed rocks out of water, the barnacles bubble behind their closed doors and the limpets dry out. And down to the rocks come the black flies to eat anything they can find. The sharp smell of iodine from the algae, and the lime smell of calcareous bodies and the smell of powerful protean, smell of sperm and ova fill the air. On the exposed rocks the starfish emit semen and eggs from between their rays. The smells of life and richness, of death and digestion, of decay and birth, burden the air. And salt spray blows in from the barrier where the ocean waits for its rising-tide strength to permit it back into the Great Tide Pool again. And on the reef the whistling buoy bellows like a sad and patient bull.”

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Book:Cannery Row

Source: Cannery Row

“Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up. As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean. He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?" The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean." "I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man. To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die." Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!" At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one.”

Inspirational Wise Make A Difference Starfish

Author:Loren Eiseley

“The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That's why the ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

“Are there any mythical beasts which aren't simple pastiches of nature? Centaurs, minotaurs, unicorns, griffons, chimeras, sphinxes, manticores, and the like don't speak well for the human imagination. None is as novel as a kangaroo or starfish.”

Humans Wells Speak Imagination Simple Novel Mythology Beast Unicorn Human Imagination Chimera Sphinx Kangaroos Minotaur Centaurs Starfish Pastiche Mythical Beasts

Author:William Poundstone

“People sometimes try to score debating points by saying, Evolution is only a theory. That is correct, but it's important to understand what that means. It is also only a theory that the world goes round the Sun - it's just a theory for which there is an immense amount of evidence. There are many scientific theories that are in doubt. Even within evolution, there is some room for controversy. But that we are cousins of apes and jackals and starfish, let's say, that is a fact in the ordinary sense of the word.”

“If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.”

Ifs Feels States Dies Sea Ocean Sick Our Future Starfish

Book:Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans

“When we think about living donor transplant, what we're banking on is the ability of the liver to regenerate itself. Now, it's not the same sort of regeneration we think about with the starfish where we cut off the arm and it grows a new arm. With the liver, what happens is the remaining liver gets bigger, and your body knows the size of the liver that it needs, and when it recognizes that there is not enough liver, it sends nutrients and signals to the liver and says "get bigger."”

Thinking Knows Needs Enough Body Happens Grows Ability Cutting Arms Bigger Size Your Body Signals Banking Liver Regeneration Donors Nutrients Transplants Starfish

Author:John Roberts

“Maybe a story will cheer you up... Once there was an ugly barnacle. He was so ugly that everyone died. The End.”

Ends Stories Died Ugly Cheer Once Upon A Time Starfish Barnacles Cheer You Up

Author:Patrick Star

“Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which became a human being? There's a real lack of evidence from change from actual species to a different type of species.”

Humans Different Real Human Beings Type Evidence Cat Species Cells Grass Blades Being There Donkey Blades Of Grass Starfish

Author:Michele Bachmann

“All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.”

Used Dog My Friends Cat Parks Cat And Dog Starfish

Author:Noel Fielding

“I am not an attractive man. These clothes are the only thing holding me together; when I'm nude, my body shoots off in all directions. I'm like a starfish.”

Men Body Together Clothes Attractive Starfish Attractive Man

Author:Jeremy Hotz

“Her fingers moved among barnacles and mussels, blue-black, sharp-edged. Neon red starfish were limp Dalis on the rocks, surrounded by bouquets of stinging anemones and purple bursts of spiny sea urchins.”

Black Sea Rocks Red Blue Moved Fingers Purple Neon Bouquets Starfish Barnacles

Author:Janet Fitch

“How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.”

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Book:Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

“But it is just two lovers, holding hands and in a hurry to reach their car, their locked hands a starfish leaping through the dark.”

Two Hands Dark Car Lovers Locked Holding Hands Two Lovers Starfish

Book:Rabbit, Run

Source: Rabbit, Run

“Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.”

Heart Endure Amputation Starfish

Book:Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

Source: Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship

“Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.”

People World Writing Helping Together Havens Demand Scientist Sick Illness Math Fixed Epic Staples Starfish Epic Poems

Author:Daniel Handler

“That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocean and share a burger and talk and even then I knew that I was fortunate. Because you were the first guy who wasn't constantly trying to impress me. You accepted who you were, but more than that, you accepted me for me. And nothing else mattered-- not my family or your family or anyone else in the world. It was just us.”

World Trying Firsts Guy Share Ocean My Family Accepted Fortunate Impress Simplest Toss Burgers Best Of Me Starfish

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.”

Sometimes Lost Grows Alive Arms Stones Awful This Day Rivals Jam Jars Otherness Starfish

Book:Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: and other prose writings

“... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.”

World Important Matter Stars Consciousness Students Divine Concepts Flow Stones Cosmos Exception Sovereign Starfish

Author:Ki Longfellow

“He loves me, he doesn't love my bowels, if they showed him my appendix in a glass he wouldn't recognize it, he's always feeling me, but if they put the glass in his hands he wouldn't touch it, he wouldn't think, "that's hers," you ought to love all of somebody, the esophagus, the liver, the intestines. Maybe we don't love them because we aren't used to them, but if we saw them the way we saw our hands and arms maybe we'd love them; the starfish must love each other better than we do.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feelings Hands Used Saws Arms Ought Glasses Love Each Other Liver Bowels Intestines Appendix Starfish

Book:The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

Source: The Wall: (Intimacy) and Other Stories

“This is what life does. It lets you walk up to the store to buy breakfast and the paper, on a stiff knee. It lets you choose the way you have your eggs, your coffee. Then it sits a fisherman down beside you at the counter who says, Last night, the channel was full of starfish. And you wonder, is this a message, finally, or just another day?”

Way Doe Lasts Night Walks Wonder Paper Messages Stores Coffee Knees Eggs Breakfast You Choose Last Night Fisherman Another Day Beside You Starfish

Book:Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds

Source: Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds

“I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.”

Thinking Way Want Needs Kind Self Seems Talking Audience Written Strange Conversation Poetry Is Stomach Strange Things Starfish

Author:Kay Ryan

“Indeed Christianity passes. Passes - it has gone! It has littered the beaches of life with churches, cathedrals, shrines and crucifixes, prejudices and intolerances, like the sea urchin and starfish and empty shells and lumps of stinging jelly upon the sands here after a tide. A tidal wave out of Egypt. And it has left a multitude of little wriggling theologians and confessors and apologists hopping and burrowing in the warm nutritious sand. But in the hearts of living men, what remains of it now? Doubtful scraps of Arianism. Phrases. Sentiments. Habits.”