Tortoise Quotes

48 quotes by 41 authors

One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare... — Clement Greenberg
Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat… — John Major
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. — Terry Pratchett
There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only… — Wole Soyinka
A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
One day a tortoise will learn how to fly. — Terry Pratchett
Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the… — Terry Tempest Williams
Om rubed his head. This wasn't god-like thinking. It seemed simpler when you were up here. It was all a game. You forgot that it… — Terry Pratchett
The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called… — Lewis Carroll
He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery. — Stella Gibbons
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Stephen Hawking
In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod. — Ilona Andrews
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise. — Ilona Andrews
We have been led to imagine all sorts of things infinitely more marvelous than the imagining of poets and dreamers of the past. It shows… — Richard P. Feynman
So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a… — John Green
Giving the tortoise a little wave, I kind of felt stupid afterward for doing so. It just stuck its head back in its green and… — J. Lynn
You do not know me,â€™ said Tortoise. â€˜I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble… — Chinua Achebe
It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read. — Anita Brookner
The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise,… — Gale Norton

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