Turtles Quotes · Page 5

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we…

— H. L. Mencken

Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.

— Ellen Raskin

Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage…

— Lord Byron

'Turtles' was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna…

— Greg Cipes

“And today the great Yertle, that Marvelous he, Is king of the Mud. That is all he can see. And the turtles…

— Dr. Seuss

Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?' No,' I said. People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord…

— Jerry Spinelli

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash…

— Amy Tan

“It's turtles all the way fucking down, Holmesy. You're trying to find the turtle at the bottom of the pile, but that's…

— John Green

In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously…

— Eban Goodstein

I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,…

— Khaled Hosseini

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles…

— Haruo Shirane

Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a…

— David Quammen

“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits…

— Stephen Hawking

Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul,…

— Paul of the Cross

We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing…

— John Green

I used to be obsessed with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when I was younger. So obsessed that every time I'd walk over…

— Josh Hutcherson

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When…

— Lee Trevino

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious…

— Linus Torvalds

Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren…

— Jane Velez-Mitchell

One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around…

— Peter Sohn

I kept a few turtles and tortoises and maybe a snake in my apartment in New York City, off and on. Maybe…

— Eric Goode

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of…

— James Lee

I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see…

— Mark Haddon

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel,…

— Harper Lee

Rabbits jump and they live for 8 years. Dogs run and they live for 15 years. Turtles don't do anything and they…

— Nishan Panwar

“Turtles carry their homes on their backs.” Running her finger over the tattoo, she tells him what her dad told her: “They’re…

— Christina Baker Kline

The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,'…

— Charles Eisenstein

“Warren Buffett is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles which outrun the hares are learning machines. If…

— Lucas Remmerswaal

I think the law as it is today probably does prohibit an off-reservation casino, but there is uniqueness to Turtle Mountain and…

— Bill Johnson

The Ninja Turtles made me who I am today in a big way. It was my favorite show as a kid. It…

— Greg Cipes

Some of us are turtles; we crawl and struggle along, and we haven't maybe figured it out by the time we're 30.…

— John B. Goodenough

What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like…

— Gwen Stefani

I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very…

— Archie Carr

Look, I admit you seem like a decent person. For all I know you stop and move turtles out of the road…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“People have been on earth in our present form for only about 100,000 years, and in so many ways we’re still ironing…

— Carl Safina

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a…

— Martin Gardner

And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the…

— Lewis Carroll

Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution…

— Christopher Moore