Tortoises Quotes

46 quotes by 39 authors

• In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was… — Anita Brookner
• May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
• Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by heaven and be… — Mao Zedong
• [My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her. — William Cowper
• Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good… — Charles Warren Stoddard
• Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in the shell of… — Elwyn Brooks White
• Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. — Henry David Thoreau
• Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy. — Terry Pratchett
• But of course, what the eagle does not realize is that it is participating in a very crude form of natural selection.One day a tortoise… — Terry Pratchett
• I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and… — Eugene Ionesco
• We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That’s how art works. It’s never a jackrabbit, or a… — Pat Conroy
• The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze.… — Taiichi Ohno
• It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag… — Megan Whalen Turner
• How you start is important, very important, but in the end it is how you finish that counts. It is easier to be a self-starter… — B. C. Forbes
• The elephant which supports the world is called Muha-pudma, and the the tortoise which supports the elephant is called Chukwa. In some of the Eastern… — E. Cobham Brewer
• The world has different owners at sunrise... Even your own garden does not belong to you. Rabbits and blackbirds have the lawns; a tortoise-shell cat… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares. — Khalil Gibran
• I am successful because I have always been a tortoise. I did not come from a rich family. I was not smart in school. I… — Robert Kiyosaki
• I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one… — Henry David Thoreau

Who Wrote These Tortoises Quotes

39 authors contributed a total of 46 Tortoises Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 5 Tortoises Quotes by Terry Pratchett
• 3 Tortoises Quotes by Ilona Andrews
• 2 Tortoises Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Megan Whalen Turner
• 1 Tortoises Quote by E. Cobham Brewer
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Robert Kiyosaki
• 1 Tortoises Quote by B.K.S. Iyengar
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Bertrand Russell
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Maureen Lipman
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Robert Lloyd
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Clement Greenberg
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• 1 Tortoises Quote by John Major
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Wole Soyinka
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Terry Tempest Williams
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Lewis Carroll
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Pat Conroy
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Stella Gibbons
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Taiichi Ohno
• 1 Tortoises Quote by Stephen Hawking
• 1 Tortoises Quote by B. C. Forbes