Turtles Quotes
146 quotes by 134 authors
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I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.
— Dalai Lama
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People peep into boxes at moving stereoscopic prints, imagining they're in other worlds, and the crowd around a glassblower wonders whether icicles have formed in…
— Haruo Shirane
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Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it,…
— N.D. Wilson
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I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in Metal Gear Solid 3. But you cannot eat turtles.
— Hideo Kojima
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I've got nine dogs, eight birds, turtles, fish and I had wallabies at one point.
— Gloria Estefan
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What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!
— Dr. Seuss
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On my door is a cartoon of two turtles. One says, 'Sometimes I would like to ask why he allows poverty, famine and injustice when…
— Peter Kreeft
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
— Arthur Miller
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have…
— Mae Whitman
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The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.
— Rollo May
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What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could…
— Gwen Stefani
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Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.…
— James Lee
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Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Will you walk a little faster? said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail! See…
— Lewis Carroll
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If it makes Tom Cruise happy, I don't care if he prays to turtles, ... And I don't think anybody else should.
— Madonna Ciccone
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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,…
— Davy Crockett
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Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, water bugs, tadpoles, frogs, mud turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, chestnuts, trees to climb. Brooks to wade, water…
— Luther Burbank
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I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I…
— Archie Carr
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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
Who Wrote These Turtles Quotes
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