Because Quote by Lewis Carroll

We called him Tortoise because he taught us. -The Mock Turtle

— Alice In Wonderland

Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races... very handy.

— Terry Pratchett

“In a tree-shaded pasture, seventeen adult tortoises randomly stood around. As I fed them spinach leaves sold by an opportune vendor, they tolerated my…

— Kristine K. Stevens

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.

— Terry Pratchett

Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the…

— Stephen Hawking

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Confound my genteel upbringing! I could not think of any name foul enough to call him.

— Nancy Springer

“In the tortoise and the hair fable, I believe the tortoise represents big business, while the hair represents small business. Not featured in the…

— Jarod Kintz

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.

— Joel Hodgson

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild…

— Henry David Thoreau

We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time.

— Mark Twain