I'm the tortoise in the race, but I'm a joyful tortoise.

A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.

— Maureen Lipman

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

— Anonymous

The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

— Lewis Black

“Tortoises are not very fast, as everyone knows, but they make up for their slow speed by being very determined. And if you turn…

— William Herring

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

— Henry David Thoreau

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

— Terry Pratchett

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes…

— Chinua Achebe

I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon…

— Eugene Ionesco

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

— Lewis Black

But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a…

— Terry Pratchett

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

— Agatha Christie

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

— Terry Pratchett

The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to…

— Taiichi Ohno

Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell…

— E. B. White

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

— Dave Ramsey