Top 84 Be A Turtle Quotes

#1. If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#2. What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?

Naomi Shihab Nye

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#3. On a scale of one to sexy I'm at a solid awkward turtle ninety percent of the time.

Kandi Steiner

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#4. In the spirit of Trickster, here's to turning representation against itself in the fight for survivance, for f"a new consciousness of coexistence," for a new Turtle Island.

Pauline Turner Strong

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#5. The other [video game] franchises let you experience the adrenaline and horror of war, or deep fantasy worlds, or pro sports. A Mario game lets you pretend to be a middle-aged chubster hopping onto a turtle shell.

Jeff Ryan

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#6. Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

Nikolai Gogol

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#7. To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.

Gloria E. Anzaldua

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#8. 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 he could do something about it.' The other turtle says 'I am afraid that God might ask me the same question.'

Peter Kreeft

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#9. To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle's shoulder.

Leonard Cohen

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#10. the medicine wheel is inside of you it not in a pile of stones the medicine wheel is inside the heart and body

Medicine Turtle

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#11. As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,
As sun to day, at turtle to her mate,
As iron to adamant, as earth to centre.

William Shakespeare

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

Jonah Hill

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#13. 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 be yattering streams of obscenities between chain-smoker gasps of breath.

Christopher Moore

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#14. When I was Turtle's age I had never had anyone or anything important taken from me. I still hadn't. Maybe I hadn't started out with a whole lot, but pretty nearly all of it was still with me.

Barbara Kingsolver

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#15. Captain's Log...

...Four days have passed with no sign of human life on this island. Hunger is about to push me to the point of...

...Eating pocket lint.

It looks edible.

Ken Akamatsu

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#16. The van started as John had promised, and it sounded good, but was about as useless as tits on a turtle if we couldn't get out of the garage.

Mark Tufo

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#17. There were signs and I missed them. For instance, Crake said once, "Would you kill someone you loved to spare them pain?" "You mean, commit euthanasia?" said Jimmy. "Like putting down your pet turtle?" "Just tell me," said Crake.
"I don't know. What kind of love, what kind of pain?

Margaret Atwood

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#18. His projected face bony and intense, Garth peered out of his booth like an aroused turtle.

Philip K. Dick

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#19. The turtle stands on a turtle, which stands on a turtle. That's the universe in whole, boy. It's turtles all the way down.

Bill Willingham

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#20. 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 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

Bobby Darin

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#21. Aging gracefully is about no heavy makeup, and not too much powder because it gets into the wrinkles, and, you know, to not get turtle eyelids and to not try to look young.

Iris Apfel

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#22. Gregori jolted back. "Snap! You couldn't control one measly mortal?"
Roman clenched his fists. "No."
Gregori slapped a hand against his brow. "Snap!"
"Why the hell are you snapping? Are you a turtle?" It was times like this that firing Gregori
seemed to be the wise choice.

Kerrelyn Sparks

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#23. A turtle doesn't have to decide every morning whether to keep on bothering, it just carries on. Maybe that's why man kills everything: envy.

Russell Hoban

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#24. I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.

John Steinbeck

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#25. Turtle Tail, I know you'll always be with me," he called. "You waited a long time for our love to grow and it won't die now. I'll fight for you, Turtle Tail, and I'll make sure that your kits have a future on the moor, safe among friends." The clouds touched, becoming one. "I will not fail you.

Erin Hunter

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#26. The world rests upon a turtle, which itself stands on the back of an elephant!"
Alek tried not to laugh. "Then what does the elephant stand on, madam?"
"Don't try to be clever, young man." She narrowed her eyes. "It's elephants all the way down!

Scott Westerfeld

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#27. What in the hell was that supposed to be? What are you ... a Ninja Turtle?

Elle Casey

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#28. The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

Ogden Nash

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#29. We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!

Frank Reynolds

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#30. But if she had Clay and Turtle as friends, and then Turtle got himself killed by Queen Scarlet or accidentally set on fire, well, then she'd survive OK, because she'd still have Clay. It occurred to her that this was a rather morbid train of thought to be having about a new friend.

Tui T. Sutherland

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#31. I'm stuck babysitting turtle eggs while a volleyball player slash grease monkey slash aquarium volunteer tries to hit on me."
I'm not hitting on you," he protested.
No?"
Believe me, you'd know if I was hitting on you. You wouldn't be able to stop yourself from succumbing to my charms.

Nicholas Sparks

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#32. No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#33. 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 don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.

Archie Carr

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#34. You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.

Ann Brashares

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#35. You are no failure, on a river. The water moves regardless - for all it cares, you might be a minnow or a tadpole, a turtle on a beavered log. You might be nothing at all.

Leif Enger

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#36. But then I think about my sister and what a shell-less turtle she was and how she wanted me to be one too. C'mon, Lennie, she used to say to me at least ten times a day. C'mon Len. And that makes me feel better, like it's her life rather than her death that is now teaching me how to be, who to be.

Jandy Nelson

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#37. Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

Louis Pullig De Gouy

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#38. If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far.

Thomm Quackenbush

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#39. The holistic acupuncturist and the sea turtle rescuer may not be able to explain the feeling, 'We are serving the same thing,' but they are. Both are in service to an emerging story of the People that is the defining mythology of a new kind of civilization.

Charles Eisenstein

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#40. We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

Danny DeVito

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#41. There's not a Hand in this town, sir, man, woman, or child, but has one ultimate object in life. That object is, to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon. Now, they're not a-going - none of 'em - ever to be fed on turtle soup and venison with a gold spoon.

Charles Dickens

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#42. All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

John Hersey

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#43. Did I ever tell you my pet peeve?'
No,' I said.
People who dress up their pets to look like Little Lord Fauntleroys or cowboys, clowns, ballerinas. As if it's not enough just to be a dog or cat or turtle.

Jerry Spinelli

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#44. Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!

Raphael

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#45. Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

Natalie Gulbis

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#46. Star, pillows don't attack dogs," Sam said.
"Or anything else," Turtle added.

Jennifer Priester

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#47. Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle.
(Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

Tamora Pierce

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#48. I pledge allegiance to the soil
of Turtle Island,
and to the beings who thereon dwell
one ecosystem
in diversity
under the sun
With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

Gary Snyder

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#49. Your friend the Turtle... He died a few years ago. The old idiot puked inside his shell and choked to death on a galaxy or two. Very sad, don't you think? But also quite bizarre.

Stephen King

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#50. The turtle moves.

Terry Pratchett

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#51. It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.

Eileen Wilks

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#52. Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

Lord Byron

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#53. Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ...

Muse

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#54. You know what makes no sense? A bunch of penises making choices for vaginas. That's like interviewing a turtle on the struggles of being a dolphin. We

Luvvie Ajayi

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#55. I've heard this attributed to Calvin Coolidge. "Behold the turtle. He never gets anywhere unless he sticks his neck out.

Mike Coyle

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#56. Tracked the kits' trail and it met another. The heather was drenched with Tom's scent. Turtle Tail recognized it at once.

Erin Hunter

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#57. Ms. McMartin had no close family. Her nearest relative was a distant cousin who had recently died in Shanghai, after a severe allergic reaction to a bowl of turtle and arsenic soup.

Jacqueline West

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#58. Ah, but would we not all be the fools to attack an armored turtle through its shell?

R.A. Salvatore

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#59. When pleasure reaches its height passions are
intense, and feelings know no bounds;
As the mouth of the "divine turtle"
disgorges ts "silvery stream.

Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

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#60. When I told my sister, who was a fashion designer in college, what I wanted to do, she said I was crazy. But once I got started, I couldn't turn back. Kimberly Goodwin, Snapping Turtle Kids

Holly Hurd

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#61. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#62. 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, peace will come looking for you.

Ajahn Chah

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#63. Always ask the turtle.

Gloria Steinem

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#64. I miss my dog."
...
"What was his name again?"
"Mouse."
"That was very unkind of you."
"Naming him mouse?"
"Isn't he a greyhound?"
"I could have named hum Turtle."
"Frederick!" ...
"It's better than Frederic," Annabel said, "Good heavens, that's my brother's name.

Julia Quinn

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#65. But why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?

Rudyard Kipling

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#66. So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".

Tommy Cooper

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#67. Don't insult me. Everyone knows a turtle is a crustacean on its mother's side.

Anthony Marra

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#68. about four inches down, he suddenly came into a small chamber in the cool-damp sand and there lay eggs, many eggs, almost perfectly round eggs the size of table tennis balls, and he laughed then because he knew. It had been a turtle.

Gary Paulsen

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#69. Naturally I left the turtle on its back in the baking sun.

Michael Brookes

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#70. I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.

Amanda Schull

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#71. Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog

Li Ching-Yuen

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#72. It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

Aaron Spelling

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#73. Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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#74. I did exactly as Sampson said and I conjured up a creature with rabbit ears,
a wolf face, a snake body, frog feet, a pig tail, and spikes running from the top of its head to the end of its tail.
"Now," Sampson said. "This is the
kind of magic that you shouldn't do.

Jennifer Priester

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#75. The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup ... ' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

Russell Hoban

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#76. To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.

Gregory Maguire

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#77. If you want success in life, then just learn how to walk like a turtle instead of flying.

Auliq Ice

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#78. Rasheed was a fixed entity, an unchanging, finished, permanent person, and the thought of teaching him anything was as unthinkable as training a turtle to sing. Turtles cannot sing and fathers cannot change. Neither fact demands alteration.

Karim Dimechkie

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#79. Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.

Lewis Carroll

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#80. 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

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#81. The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publisher didn't think that would sell. If you read those books, the hero almost always has his back facing the camera so you can't see his face. When he turns around, his face is obscured.

Gene Luen Yang

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#82. So what did God say to me in the silence that morning? I'm not sure, but I think God said something like, Don't try so hard, little child, and, Hey, check out this cool turtle I made.

Rachel Held Evans

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#83. For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth: the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Anonymous

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#84. She wore leather pants, a long-sleeved shirt open over a tank top, and enough guns and knives to make her look like a pissed-off Ninja Turtle.

S.M. Reine

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