Quotes by category:Turtles

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Harvey Mackay

necks turtles sticks

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Harper Lee

turtles stupid said

Law and its instrument, government, are necessary to the peace and safety of all of us, but all of us, unless we live the lives of mud turtles, frequently find them arrayed against us.

H. L. Mencken

turtles government law

Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

Heinrich Heine

turtles reform soup

I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in 'Metal Gear Solid 3.' But you cannot eat turtles.

Hideo Kojima

turtles gears mushrooms

As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.

Inga Muscio

turtles islands appreciation

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

James Bryant Conant

progress turtles sticks

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.

James Lee

squirrels sharks turtles

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

turtles floating sea

My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood...And they're huge human-turtles!!

Jason Reeves

turtles teenage personality

I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

Henry David Thoreau

horse turtles clouds

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

Jim Breithaupt

turtles technology government

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

Joel Hodgson

turtles brother names

Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife

John Cornyn

turtles men children

The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures.

John Grant

turtles ocean animal

When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

Jodi Picoult

turtles sea beach

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

Jonah Hill

turtles men people

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 else in the universe was on top of.

Jonathan Safran Foer

invention turtles night

When I was doing preliminary research on this case, I remembered the story about Tlazolteotl.' [Mulder] glanced at the old archaeologist. 'Am I pronouncing it correctly? It sounds like I'm swallowing a turtle.

Kevin J. Anderson

turtles swallowing sound

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

Kurt Vonnegut

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