A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear… — Maureen Lipman Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The… — John Green Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me? — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
In a recent interview, Jeb Bush revealed that his brother George gave him the nickname 'tortoise' because he's making slow, steady progress.… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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