Crabs Quotations

You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

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.

We're going to have another good influx of crabs. Last year, we had the largest influx of juvenile crabs that we've seen since 1997. ... We still have that elevated influx of young crabs.

I wanna buy a bunch of hermit crabs and make them live together.

The crabs could graze off the bacteria. Really, it's sort of a mystery what they do.

You cannot make a crab walk straight.

You will never make the crab walk straight.

O.K. I'm running out of appetite. Let this swirl- a bit like Crab Nebula- do for now.

Our goal is not to add crabs to the system so the crabbers can take them out,

We couldn't have landed this account at a better time. Our continued successes working with consumer products companies across the United States are again reflected in McCormick's appointment of us. I am especially thrilled because McCormick is a Maryland-based company. I was born and raised in Maryland and our home office is located in Annapolis -- not far from McCormick's Maryland headquarters. Of course, it does not get any better than Maryland Crabs and Old Bay seasoning (one of McCormick's many fine products)!

When we're not catching crabs we definitely depend on crabs from down there. This is going to be really detrimental to the whole seafood industry.

There is an animal inside me, clutching fast to my heart, a huge crab.

I was being chased by a giant crab. [Audience laughs] That's not funny.

Like those crabs which dress themselves with seaweed, we wear belief and custom.

Commercial fishermen took millions of these crabs out of the Delaware Bay with no regard to the consequences to the ecosystem.

It was teeming with a diversity of life, with mussels, tubeworms, fish and crabs. Struggles for survival were playing out before our eyes. The incredible multitude of crabs in combat with each other for existence is an image I will never forget.

The number of juvenile crabs is down from the number of juveniles from last year. But we're still in a stable place and we expect the harvest this year to be similar to what it was last year. The population has been stable over the last three or four years. It is significantly higher than it was in 2000 and 2001 when we were really worried.

Their habitat: the ocean. Compared to other habitats, the ocean doesn't change as frequently over time. Also, horseshoe crabs have a simple shape and niche that works well for them.

I learned that picking crabs is a very arduous process,

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

Being from Baltimore, I'm a crab cake snob, and I'm very particular on where I eat my crab cakes.

Who's going to rob us? A crackhead crab? A jellyfish junkie?

The market softens now because they anticipate those guys going fishing and they anticipate cheaper crabs on the market really soon. It takes about two weeks to mop up the majority of that fishery up there, so hopefully when that starts tapering off we can afford to go fishing again.

There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.

Better a days catch of fish than a lifetime of crabs.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

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

When a woman grabs my braids and says "How cute!" I crab her breast and say "How cute!" She never touches me again!

The highest treason a crab can commit is to make a leap for the rim of the bucket.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.