Turtles Quotes
146 quotes by 134 authors
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Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.
— Megan Fox
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Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
— Lou Gerstner
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Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
— Natalie Gulbis
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Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
— James Bryant Conant
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I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore…
— Bobby Darin
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By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures…
— Sylvia Earle
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Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
— Bruce Feiler
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I have very fond memories of swimming in Walden Pond when we lived in Boston. You'd swim past a log and see all these turtles…
— Mark Haddon
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Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
— Alex Haley
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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
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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
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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
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I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant…
— Matt Smith
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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
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Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the…
— Lee Trevino
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Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is…
— Linus Torvalds
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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
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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
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Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?†“Turtles can't feel, stupid,†said Jem.…
— Harper Lee
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