Turtle Quotes

126 quotes by 115 authors

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause. — Bruce Feiler
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. — Alex Haley
I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had… — Khaled Hosseini
I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney.… — Demetri Martin
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't… — Garry Shandling
The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other… — Tom Stoppard
Looking for peace is like looking for a turtle with a mustache: You won't be able to find it. But when your heart is ready,… — Ajahn Chah
If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a… — Arthur Golden
Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. â€œHow do you know a match don't hurt him?â€ â€œTurtles can't feel, stupid,â€ said Jem.… — Harper Lee
I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. — Janet Fitch
Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision. — Lewis Carroll
Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?! — Christopher Paul Curtis
Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die — Nikolai Gogol
Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation." "An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach. — Ellen Raskin
In the end, everyone loses everyone. There was no invention to get around that, and so I felt, that night, like the turtle that everything… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your… — Dorothy Allison
Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows.… — Amy Tan
Even a mentally challenged shark would figure out that sea turtles did not wear boxer shorts printed in flying piggies, and no sea turtle would… — Christopher Moore
There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the… — Clifford Geertz
The turtle couldn't help us. — Stephen King

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