Quotes About Crabs

I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

brought forth scintillating jeweled scuttling crabs, which the Vogons ate, smashing their shells with iron mallets; tall aspiring trees of breathtaking slenderness and color which the Vogons cut down and burned the crabmeat with; elegant gazellelike creatures with silken coats and dewy eyes which the Vogons would catch and sit on. They were no use as transport because their backs would snap instantly, but the Vogons sat on them anyway.

When all aloud the wind doth blow,And coughing drowns the parson's saw,And birds sit brooding in the snow,And Marian's nose looks red and raw,When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl.

We're in front of a run-down little motel, the kind you see along Route 66, but not the quaint kind you stay in. It's more like the ones where you check in for an hour and come out with crabs or what in gentler times they called a "social malady.

Interesting fact: Most crabs don't have even a basic grasp of physics.

These are the hermit crabs, said one of the mermaids. They steal these shells and live in them so no enemies can attack them. Don't they get lonesome? asked Trot. Perhaps so, my dear. But they do not seem to mind being lonesome. They are great cowards, and think if they can but protect their lives there is nothing else to care for.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.

Growing up we lived on the beach and in front of our house were all these tide pools. I remember every weekend going down to the tide pools for hours upon hours with my sister Sarah and searching for shells and crabs. It was endless entertainment.

Crocs are apex predators, and as with all apex predators, they are critical to the environment: if you lose the crocs, you'll lose the barramundi, you'll lose the crabs - a catfish can eat 30,000 barramundi fingerlings, and who do you think eats the catfish? Crocs.

But I love to feel events overlapping each other, crawling over one another like wet crabs in a basket

Healthy populations of predatory crabs and fish protect the carbon in salt marshes, as they prevent herbivorous crabs and snails wiping out the plants that hold the marshes together.

Las ostras se abren por completo cuando hay Luna llena; y cuando los cangrejos ven una ostra abierta, tiran dentro de ella una piedrita o un trozo de alga, a fin de que la ostra no pueda volver a cerrarse y el cangrejo pueda devorarla. Este es también el destino de quien abre demasiado la boca, con lo cual se pone a merced del que lo escucha.

I don't shop online, but my wife buys everything at home. We buy sea crabs, fresh crabs, all kinds of things.

She was so close to the sea that when Maria licked her lips she tasted salt. There were different kinds of birds here, gulls and terns that wheeled through the pink-tinged sky. Soon the water she walked through was brackish, and all along the shore small crabs burrowed in the mud. Maria climbed a tree in which to safely rest for the evening, and from that high vantage point she could see blue in the distance, the miraculous sea.

Time and the crabs and the sweethearting crib Would leave me cold as butter for the flies

My favorite food in the world is hard shell crabs from Maryland.

The weirdest place I ever actually woke up in was a villa on the beach in Mexico. It was burning hot, and there were all these crabs walking around me. But I was feeling good, so I went with the vibe.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

These crabs, Paige explained, weren't ordinary civilian crabs, but rock 'n' roll royalty crabs, having been passed, via groupies, from the Rolling Stones to Aerosmith to Guns N' Roses, for decades. It made her feel connected to something larger, a part of history. 'Like those sourdough starts that were so popular in the seventies,' I said. 'Mine was supposedly a direct descendant of one that Alice Waters started in Berkeley.

I grew up in the Southwest of the U.K., on the coast in Cornwall. I used to keep a marine fish tank outside the house, where we would go down to the tide pools and catch fish and crabs. I think I caught a cuttlefish once.

On the other side of the river and the shattered ammunition dump swarmed the hundreds of men who had taken refuge weeks before in holes in the river banks in order to avoid the fighting, and whom Langlais compared to the crabs on tropical coasts. Dregs of humanity, deserters – Langlais could not find words sufficiently contemptuous for them.

one of the cleanest, quickest, and most ecologically pure things to do with a body would be to put it in a big tide-pool full of Dungeness crabs, which apparently enjoy eating people as much as people enjoy eating crabs.

The Hotel Clappe, spelled that way to give it that extra bit of class, looked just like it sounded; the kind of duty, disgusting dump where you rented rooms by the hour, and a fresh pair of sheets was a luxury. Good-time girls and others stalked their prey in the underlit streets, and the crabs were so big they leapt out of dark alleyways to mug passersby.