Top 100 Turtle Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. Ah, but would we not all be the fools to attack an armored turtle through its shell?
R.A. Salvatore
#8. 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
#9. Tracked the kits' trail and it met another. The heather was drenched with Tom's scent. Turtle Tail recognized it at once.
Erin Hunter
#10. Cricket? Nobody understands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!
Raphael
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.
Eileen Wilks
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Star, pillows don't attack dogs," Sam said.
"Or anything else," Turtle added.
Jennifer Priester
#20. Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
Natalie Gulbis
#21. I've heard this attributed to Calvin Coolidge. "Behold the turtle. He never gets anywhere unless he sticks his neck out.
Mike Coyle
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense.
Lewis Carroll
#28. 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
#29. If you want success in life, then just learn how to walk like a turtle instead of flying.
Auliq Ice
#30. To look into the mirror is to see the future, in blood and rubies.
Gregory Maguire
#31. What would it be like to be a turtle inside a shell hit by hailstones?
Naomi Shihab Nye
#32. Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.
Greg Cipes
#34. 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
#36. 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
#37. Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog
Li Ching-Yuen
#38. 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
#39. Naturally I left the turtle on its back in the baking sun.
Michael Brookes
#40. 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
#41. Don't insult me. Everyone knows a turtle is a crustacean on its mother's side.
Anthony Marra
#42. So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins, I thought "That's a turtle disaster".
Tommy Cooper
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. His projected face bony and intense, Garth peered out of his booth like an aroused turtle.
Philip K. Dick
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."
Jonah Hill
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. To kiss her there was to intrude into something private and skeletal, like a turtle's shoulder.
Leonard Cohen
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
Nikolai Gogol
#62. 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
#63. On a scale of one to sexy I'm at a solid awkward turtle ninety percent of the time.
Kandi Steiner
#64. You have to be like a turtle, she thought; you have to figure out how to bring your home along with you.
Ann Brashares
#65. Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
Craig Brown
#66. Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.
Bill Copeland
#68. 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
#69. People think that it is strange to have a turtle ten thousand miles long and an elephant more than two thousand miles tall, which just shows that the human brain is ill-adapted for thinking and was probably originally designed for cooling the blood.
Terry Pratchett
#70. Kip looked up at him and grinned. Don't you know what I am? I'm the fucking turtle-bear.
Brent Weeks
#71. He's talking football," Lisa whispered. "Shh. it's like watching a baby turtle trying to find the ocean. He's either going to get eaten because he knows shit about sports, or he's going to swim free into the ocean and discover he's a real boy.
Rachel Van Dyken
#72. Move well, study well, play well, eat well, rest well - That is the turtle master way!
Akira Toriyama
#73. I could hear the hiss of various gases escaping the engine and the tires still spinning outside, above, and there was the creak of metal settling as the car stopped rocking, a pathetic turtle on its back.
Andrew Davidson
#74. This is a great turtle, Katie." "James." Millie brings the waffles to the table. "Are you blind?" Yeah, you tell him, Millie. Some people just can't appreciate good art. Millie holds her folded napkin up proudly. "It's a frog." True artists (like Picasso or me) are always misunderstood.
Jenny B. Jones
#75. The slow turtle wins the race!" at it pertains to writing and editing well.
Dennis De Rose
#76. 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
#77. Dr. Seuss's management masterpiece Yertle the Turtle. SCREENING
Ben Horowitz
#78. Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.
Kurt Vonnegut
#79. I'm doing what I do well," he said, tugging me nearer. "Taking care of my Turtle.
Christina Lee
#80. I'd programmed and dropped in a few back-to-back flicks starring Gamera, my favorite giant flying turtle.
Ernest Cline
#81. Kneeling on the sea bottom in a place known as Tiger Beach, I watched a 12-foot- long female tiger shark cruise over the turtle grass with three silver bar jacks swimming in front of her nose.
Brian Skerry
#82. Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
Bruce Feiler
#83. Do you know about the Turtle?" She said turtle in a way that made it sound like a proper noun. I thought of saying I know about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and didn't. It was decades too early for Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo. So I just shook my head. She
Stephen King
#84. My spirit animal ... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.
Rita Ora
#85. But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
Arthur Miller
#86. Now about this turtle.
I think I'm gonna name it Oliver."
"Why's that?"
"Because he's leaving little turtle poop 'Oliver' his terrarium.
Amy Lane
#87. A turtle without a shell is a very strange thing. Even with shells, turtles are very strange things, with their miniature elephant's feet, parrot's beak and ludicrous tail.
-pg 30
Albert Sanchez Pinol
#88. 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
#89. We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.
Danny DeVito
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. The turtle whose head
Is within his shell
Thinks the world outside
Is going well.
Carol Kendall
#94. What is [insert name here]? Does it taste good?
Ken Akamatsu
#95. Hither, thither, through the sky, turtle-doves and linnets, fly! Blackbird, thrush, and chaffinch gay, hither, thither, haste away! One and all, come, help me quick! haste ye, haste ye--pick, pick, pick!
Jacob Grimm
#96. Pride of one's work is not improper, unladylike, or vain. We can all take a lesson from the sea turtle. She does not travel thousands of miles or risk all for her ego. She has an instinct for greatness
one that I believe is found in all living creatures.
Mary Alice
#97. More humans should acquire the quality of the turtle. He makes more progress only when he sticks his neck out.
Mitch Kynock
#98. 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 turtle
Arthur Golden
#99. I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.
Dalai Lama
#100. Pearl-colored light flowed over the far horizon and sparkled in the dewy drops beaded in spider webs. Everything was still - only the gulls and a turtle lazing on a rock observed their presence.
Kathleen Valentine
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