Crawling Quotes

• If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

  Rumi

  Motivational, Inspiring, Recovery

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  If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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• Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

  H. L. Mencken

  Missing You, Ocean, Men

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• I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet.

  Niccolo Paganini

  Play, Gnarly, Feet

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Native American, Hiking

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• As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

  Michael Nesmith

  Artist, Thinking, Kind

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• Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Success, Character, Curiosity

  Los Angeles Times Home Magazine, February 20, 1977.

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• The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission.

  Ken MacLeod

  Thinking, World, Think Big

  Ken MacLeod (2001). “The Engines of Light”

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• 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

  Dave Barry

  Bags, Fats, Escargot

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• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Artist, Literature, World

  "In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• I shot down some German planes and I got shot down myself, crashing in a burst of flames and crawling out, getting rescued by brave soldiers.

  Roald Dahl

  Flames, Bravery, Soldier

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• Given a fair wind, we will negotiate our way into the Common Market, head held high, not crawling in. Negotiations? Yes. Unconditional acceptance of whatever terms are offered us? No.

  Harold Wilson

  Unconditional Love, Acceptance, Wind

  Harold Wilson (1971). “A personal record: the Labour Government, 1964-1970”

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• Boot Camp was great and very interesting. You got to use live rounds of ammunition and got to do a lot of crawling around with live rounds flying around you, so you really had to learn to keep your ass down - everything down for that matter.

  Mel Gibson

  Interesting, Flying, Use

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• If you can’t run, walk; if you can’t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Perseverance, Determination, Kings

  "When King made history at UChicago" by Susie Allen and Michael Drapa, www.uchicago.edu. January 9, 2012.

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• I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Distance, Inspire

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• And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling cooped we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help-for it As impotently moves as you or I

  Omar Khayyam

  Moving, Hands, Sky

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• I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

  Colley Cibber

  Eye, Hands, Two

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  Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 26, 2006.

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• If you can't hold your own, you're gonna get knocked out. You're bleeding all over the place. There are many, many nights that these boys are crawling off the mats. They drop from body shots, their nose is just bleeding like a faucet. On Wednesday nights, they come in and get a beating. It only happens once with these guys. You'll get karate experts or Tae Kwon Do experts and they can't hold a candle.

  Tim Sylvia

  Boys, Night, Guy

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• I would love to see a fundamental re-thinking of whether we truly want to be the world's largest debtor nation, feeding an insatiable desire for mall-crawling with cheaply made crap from all over the world.

  Denis Hayes

  Thinking, Desire, Debtors

  "The Rumpus Interview with Earth Day organiser Denis Hayes". Interview with Melissa Price, therumpus.net. April 22, 2009.

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• One should pay attention to even the smallest crawling creature for these too may have a valuable lesson to teach us.

  Black Elk

  Inspirational, Nature, Attention

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• Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

  Agatha Christie

  Wise, Wisdom, Dog

  Agatha Christie (2010). “The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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