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
We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,… — Eugene Ionesco 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
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
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
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 Galapagos Islands, to give one famous example, remained uninhabited by humans until the nineteenth century, thus preserving their unique menagerie, including… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster". — Tommy Cooper Copy Share Image
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I think Donald Trump and Jeb Bush are the frontrunners. It's kind of like the race between the tortoise and the bad… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning. — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises). — Rich Hall Copy Share Image
The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record… — Kieran Hebden Copy Share Image
The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise;… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some… — E. Cobham Brewer Copy Share Image
I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We must forget bodily consciousness like a deer which is infatuated by music. We must look up to God, as the young… — Tukaram Copy Share Image
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But as the work proceeded I was continually reminded of the fable about the elephant and the tortoise. Having constructed an elephant… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in… — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
