Top 41 Quotes About Tortoises: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Tortoises

#1. He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?

Ilona Andrews

#2. One of my predecessors used to have people torn to death by wild tortoises. It was not a quick death.

Terry Pratchett

#3. Tortoises are not well equipped for cross-country navigation. They need longer legs or shallower ditches.

Terry Pratchett

#4. All virtuous women, like tortoises, carry their house on their heads, and their chappel in their heart, and their danger in their eye, and their souls in their hands, and God in all their actions.

Jeremy Taylor

#5. I'm a huge animal lover - I love animals to death. I've got tortoises and three dogs, and I've had a million animals in the past. I just think that we should do all we can to take care of them.

Roshon Fegan

#6. 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

#7. Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.

Richard Dawkins

#8. We wait for the tortoises to come. We wait for that lady who walks them. That's how art works. It's never a jackrabbit, or a racehorse. It's the tortoises that hold all the secrets. We've got to be patient enough to wait for them.

Pat Conroy

#9. Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

Khalil Gibran

#10. Author reports that a group of tortoises was given to the British by India's natives during the Seven Years War which ended in 1763. The last of those tortoises died in 2004 at the age of 255.

Patrick N. Allitt

#11. I desperately want to visit the Galapagos and meet some giant tortoises.

Lisa Graff

#12. Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#13. A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years.

Leonard Hayflick

#14. The slower but consistent tortoise causes less waste and is more desirable than the speedy hare that races ahead and then stops occasionally to doze. The Toyota Production System can be realized only when all the workers become tortoises.

Taiichi Ohno

#15. Tortoises are incredible creatures," Dad says earnestly. "What they lack in elegance and beauty they more than make up for in the ability to curl up and defend themselves from predators."
"What, like me?

Holly Smale

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

Tommy Cooper

#17. Interesting fact: eagles are the only birds to work out how to eat tortoises. You know? They pick them up, flying up very high, and drop them on to the rocks. Smashes them right open. Amazing.

Terry Pratchett

#18. Who underestimates is buried in the optimism of the deads. (Qui sous-estime s'enterre - Dans l'optimisme des morts.)

Charles De Leusse

#19. The fable says that the tortoise won in the end, which is consoling, but the hare shows a good deal of speed and few signs of tiring.

Northrop Frye

#20. But we can't be everything we read.

S.E. Hinton

#21. The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.

Lewis Black

#22. I can't imagine going to an all-girls school. I went to a public school.

Amy Sedaris

#23. Whenever your foundational beliefs about the goodness and justice of God are examined, and the answers produced are not what you yourself have believed about God, there will be an emotional reaction.

Thomas F. Booher

#24. I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Sappho

#25. To be around family is to feel the possibility of growing roots again.

Nadia Hashimi

#26. No one's a lost cause. You have just as much potential as anyone else.

Jody Hedlund

#27. I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

Tommy Shaw

#28. One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare ...

Clement Greenberg

#29. Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Vincent Van Gogh

#30. The sleeping tortoise takes all its limbs into its carapace. So does the yogi: going back into himself he does not see anything worldly any longer, he makes peace in himself.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#31. Oh, so does that mean I'm in trouble? Should I lift my skirt and get on all fours?" I asked, teasingly.

Lilly Wilde

#32. We're the tortoise that has outrun the hare because it chose the easy predictions.

Charlie Munger

#33. It was like looking at the sun and not going blind

John Corey Whaley

#34. Shroud of dust now covers the beautiful earth, wonder when we respire in the fresh air of verdure.

Soumya V.

#35. Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Robert Lloyd

#36. Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight ...

Marianne Williamson