Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.
Corey Hart

From each one of them rose separate columns of smoke, meeting in a pall overhead, and through the smoke came stabbing flashes of fire as German shells burst with thudding shocks of sound. This was the front line of battle.
Philip Gibbs

In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
Ken Thompson

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea.
Charles Lyell

It is absolutely true in war, were other things equal, that numbers, whether men, shells, bombs, etc., would be supreme. Yet it is also absolutely true that other things are never equal and can never be equal.
J. F. C. Fuller

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.
Anne Spencer

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond 500 fathoms, where they were certainly living.
Edward Forbes

The sky seemed filled with diving planes and the black bursts of exploding antiaircraft shells.
Dorie Miller

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.
James Longstreet

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Cyril Connolly