If rumours are true a snail’s sex organs are located on…

“What was the point in being human, in having brains that could develop vaccines and organize people across a continent, if all we did…

— Megan Crewe

They hadn’t counted on the highly controlled jabberjay having the brains to adapt to the wild, to pass on its genetic code, to thrive…

— Suzanne Collins

The French are sawed-off sissies who eat snails and slugs and cheese that smells like people's feet. Utter cowards who force their own children…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I remember I was a child, and when I grew up I was a poet. It all happened at sixty miles an hour and…

— Mary Ruefle

I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a species. In…

— Stephen Jay Gould

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

— Charles Spurgeon

Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

— George Carlin

“I wanted to be something else, anything else. I could be a snail on a leaf, or the leaf itself. I could be a…

— Burbuqe Raufi

“The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal: A last…

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.

— Mason Cooley

People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek shelter from…

— Rinko Kawauchi

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of…

— Marlon Brando

It seems to me the worst of all the plagues is the slug, the snail without a shell. He is beyond description repulsive, a…

— Celia Thaxter

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the…

— Francis Bacon

Of course, when we got home, we found that Dagda had peed on my down comforter. He had also eaten part of Mom's maidenhair…

— Cate Tiernan