“Turtles carry their homes on their backs.” Running her finger over the tattoo, she tells him what her dad told her: “They’re… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!” Alek tried not to laugh. “Then what… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the Turtles, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. There's Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael and my dad used to call… — Callum Smith Copy Share Image
I like turtles because they're so chill. They don't hurt anyone. They're just like, 'Hey man, I want to swim, and maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as… — Louis Pullig De Gouy Copy Share Image
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and… — Jason Reeves Copy Share Image
Evolution as described by Charles Darwin is an scientific theory, abundantly reconfirmed, explaining physical phenomena by physical causes. Intelligent Design is a… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Turtles have always been my sigil, I suppose. When I was a kid, growing up in Bayonne, NJ, I lived in a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles… — Haruo Shirane Copy Share Image
What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before,… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady… — George Will Copy Share Image
“In the end, everyone looses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color?… — Aaron Spelling Copy Share Image
You know the sultans used to light their garden parties with turtles? They'd put candles on their backs and let them wander… — Joseph Kanon Copy Share Image
“Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. "Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were… — Ellen Raskin Copy Share Image
Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I… — Greg Cipes Copy Share Image
When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi,… — Davy Crockett Copy Share Image
Larry's zombie bag was a nearly virulent green with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on it. I was almost afraid to ask what… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Somewhere in that ancient brain it knows that you are an idiot with a stick, to be endured, and that tomorrow there… — Brian Kimberling Copy Share Image
Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head… — Dane Cook Copy Share Image
Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle’s heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I grew up watching 'Power Rangers,' 'Ninja Turtles', 'Batman.' You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used… — Robbie Amell Copy Share Image
Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Warren is one of the best learning machines on this earth. The turtles who outrun the hares are learning machines. If you… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Open the windows and the doors, she shouted, cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come in… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“There must be more than this, Sarah Boyle thinks, from time to time. What could one do to justify one's passage? Or… — Pamela Zoline Copy Share Image
But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists… — Mary Gaitskill Copy Share Image
“An alternative, favored by those of a religious persuasion, was that A’Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.” quote by Kevin J. Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/565/kevin-j-anderson-9807_archaeologists_when-i-was-doing-preliminary-research-on_1381290.jpg)
![“I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].” quote by Davy Crockett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dba/davy-crockett-12646_alligators_i-m-that-same-david-crockett-fresh-from_1536399.jpg)
