Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Evolution is a snail, but Revolution is a kangaroo; one crawls, other jumps! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move. — Brigitte Bardot Copy Share Image
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own… — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone. — Arthur Brisbane Copy Share Image
Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor. — George Will Copy Share Image
In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How… — Allen Klein Copy Share Image
People often say that I have a child's eye. For example, I stare at ants gathering around sugar, or when I seek… — Rinko Kawauchi Copy Share Image
Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never… — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth,… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
“The snail had been a true mentor; its tiny existence had sustained me. Late one winter night I wrote in my journal:… — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
Is there anything as horrible as starting on a trip? Once you're off, that's all right, but the last moments are earthquake… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Time is a monster that cannot be reasoned with. It responds like a snail to our impatience, then it races like a… — Simon Birch Copy Share Image
In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
Fairness is a concept that holds only in limited situations. Yet we want the concept to extend to everything, in and out… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
It would be rash to conclude that, on balance, the environment of the globe as a whole is either deteriorating or improving,… — Gilbert F. White Copy Share Image
Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out… — Big Daddy Kane Copy Share Image
Moss grows where nothing else can grow. It grows on bricks. It grows on tree bark and roofing slate. It grows in… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a… — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. Let me then float an unconventional… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
In White Summer, Joelle Biele exhibits a Roethke-like affinity with nature and natures creatures. At times a miniaturist, Biele constructs exquisite addresses… — Elizabeth Spires Copy Share Image
Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“Ugly and futile: lean neck and thick hair and a stain of ink, a snail’s bed. Yet someone had loved him, borne… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I love jokes as much as anyone, but I don't want to hear my snail jokes every day. But I might want… — Neil Peart Copy Share Image
The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
