Turtles Quotes

“Love makes even a turtle smile.”

— Henrietta Newton Martin

“I like turtles.”

— Anonymous

“I wonder about turtles.”

— Kurt Vonnegut Jr

The turtle couldn't help us.

— Stephen King

“It's turtles all the way down.”

— William James

Turtle makes all men equal.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

— Dalai Lama

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

— Anna Olson

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

— Dr. Seuss

The two are unrelated. I'm not into turtles or space stuff.

— Harry Connick, Jr

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

— Anonymous

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

— Rollo May

Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man.

— William Shakespeare

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

— Alex Haley

“You and I and everyone else are a bit like turtles: we only make progress when we stick our necks out a…

— Alan Garner

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

— Harper Lee

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

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.

— Etgar Keret

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

— Anonymous

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

— Jim Breithaupt

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same…

— John Cornyn

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the…

— Jodi Picoult

I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so…

— Bess Truman

Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on…

— Lewis Carroll

“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

Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does…

— Anonymous

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it…

— Ambrose Bierce

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

Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out,…

— Anonymous

“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

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

“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

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

But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists…

— Mary Gaitskill

“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

Home is essentially a set of values you carry around with you and, like a turtle or a snail or whatever, home…

— Pico Iyer

“At the pet store he picked out two painted turtles, each about as big around as a mayonnaise-jar lid. He bought them…

— Christopher Moore

If I could get a Ninja Turtles tattoo, I would.

— Bobby Wagner

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

— Bruce Feiler