Top 100 Turtle Quotes
#1. You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#2. No man has ever seen a turtle climbing the wall. In order to do the things which are impossible for you, you need to change yourself, and better still, transform yourself into something new!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. He knew for a fact that one of the girls had managed to take over the plenary session of the national model UN and push through a motion sanctioning the use of nuclear weapons to protect an endangered species of sea turtle. This while representing Lesotho.
Lev Grossman
#4. Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle.
Demetri Martin
#5. A rat is more alive than a turtle.
A turtle is slow, cold, mechanical, nearly a toy, a shell with legs. Their deaths didn't count. But a white rat is quick and warm in its envelope of skin
Leonard Cohen
#6. It was her, Marie Antoinette, scrutinizing me, satanically silent. Some would say that Marie Antoinette could only express her hate in silence because she was a turtle. To these naive souls I would reply that hate, like laughter, makes less noise the deeper it is.
-pg 100
Albert Sanchez Pinol
#7. The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.
Jim Breithaupt
#8. 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
#9. Dad-a-dhuck, dad-a-churtle, don't worry, girl, you've got the turtle!
Stephen King
#10. Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.
Anna Olson
#11. And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
Eddie Campbell
#12. To the turtle, the concept of "loneliness" is incomprehensible. She always has been alone, and any other social state is unthinkable.
Robert H. Baker
#13. Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.
Ted Kooser
#14. A lizard fucks a crab and nine months later a turtle pops out. It's called evolution.
Anthony Marra
#15. I know my limits. You don't ever need to worry about me." "Thanks, Scot. I'll remind myself of that next time I see you looking like a flipped turtle.
Brad Thor
#16. I think the law as it is today probably does prohibit an off-reservation casino, but there is uniqueness to Turtle Mountain and there is uniqueness to the state, and these things need to be looked at.
Bill Johnson
#17. 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
#18. Joad rolled the coat up more tightly. "An old turtle,' he said. "Picked him up on the road. An old bulldozer. Thought I'd take 'im to my little brother. Kids like turtles.
John Steinbeck
#19. It's not that much and everyone needs a pet turtle.
J. Lynn
#20. One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered.
Peter Sohn
#21. 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
#22. Look, the point is, tiny fire-breathing dinosaur, stacked up against a doofus not-so-ninja turtle and an overgrown iguana with a flower on his back - practical shit aside, he's clearly the ace choice.
Daniel Younger
#23. Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Harvey MacKay
#24. Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. And that is why you must learn to swallow your own tears.
Amy Tan
#25. 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
#26. 'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.
Will Hobbs
#27. I had to be self-contained, a kind of casual turtle carrying his house on his back.
John Steinbeck
#30. You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.
George Hearst
#31. Of course, no other world was carried through the starry infinity on the backs of four giant elephants, who were themselves perched on the shell of a giant turtle.
Terry Pratchett
#32. I've been looking at used car bargains. I'll frankly confess I'm scared to death of Fords. I've seen and heard of so many turning turtle.
Bess Truman
#33. Would they ever let go, these grey, turtle-faced creatures? Would their stranglehold on the Western world ever cease?
Paul Christensen
#34. I have an image of
Turtle
right on the forehead.
She seems to go through the lobes of my brain. Sort of
like swimming.
Sandra Harner
#35. 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
#36. A Man Needs A Woman Like A Turtle Needs A Shell on His Back" SINGLE AGAIN by Rod Cornelius
Rod Cornelius
#37. Reeling and Writhing of course, to begin with,' the Mock Turtle replied, 'and the different branches of arithmetic-ambition, distraction, uglification, and derision.
Lewis Carroll
#38. The body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.
Marge Piercy
#39. Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful.
"Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled.
"How do you know a match don't hurt him?"
"Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?
Harper Lee
#40. I've been exploring different options for when I'm done skiing. I have the Turtle Ridge Foundation, which is helping a bunch of worthy causes around the Northeast. I've also started SkiSpace, which is an online social network that basically deals with all things based around any snow sport.
Bode Miller
#41. A turtle does come in it's own bowl
Mike Dirnt
#42. No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#43. A turtle swims in the background while this shark's face is distorted by the diver's camera lens.
James Mayrose
#44. See the TURTLE, ain't he keen? All things serve the fuckin Beam.
Stephen King
#45. Withdraw, like a turtle, into a hard yet harmless shell, ornamented with beautiful memories of the past.
from the book 'I Know Who You Are!
Mariam Masood
#46. A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;
Henry David Thoreau
#47. We can all sleep better tonight knowing Turtle is on the team.
Michael R. Nardo
#48. I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
Garry Shandling
#49. 'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
Gene Luen Yang
#50. 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
#51. As far as I knew, Nadia was still with her new guy, some fancy tennis player from Brazil. Donatello or Michelangelo or something. Ninja Turtle? Yeah.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#52. 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
#53. No, but it was a close call. Brought you something."
"Turtle pee?"
Cam laughed and shook his head as he reached into his backpack. "Sorry to let you down, but no." He pulled out papers stapled together. "It's a syllabus. I know. Thrilling shit right here.
J. Lynn
#54. Big words from a guy who's trussed up like a turkey. What are you going to do, wobble over here like an upside- down turtle to snap me in half?"
"The logistics of breaking you are easy. The only question is when.
Susan Ee
#55. 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
#56. Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
Charles Ghigna
#57. I slipped on a turtleneck, laughing when my head became stuck in the turtle part. If they weren't called turtlenecks, I wouldn't have worn them.
Augusten Burroughs
#58. I'm the Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a belly-ache.
Stephen King
#59. Most people were heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after it has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too.
Ernest Hemingway,
#60. Tell me, Mr. Bennet, how can we amuse you during your visit? Do you hunt?" Lady Catherine was spooning her turtle soup, blowing delicately to cool it.
"I am certain an animal would sooner die of laughter than gunshot wound if I even made the attempt.
Karen V. Wasylowski
#61. I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible."
"Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.
Ellen Raskin
#62. Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!
Dana Carvey
#63. Nothing," he said softly. "It's just a real nice turtle, that's all." "You
Amy Lane
#64. Even if a horse comes down from kings and queens but lacks heart, he can't outrun a three-year-old turtle.
Fred Grove
#65. Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.
Dane Cook
#66. Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs.
Brian P. Cleary
#67. I was moving at the speed of a three-legged turtle, so it took a while to blink my eyes open, and even then it was just a thin crack.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#68. Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
Alice Morse Earle
#69. 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
#70. If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
George Carlin
#72. What in the hell was that supposed to be? What are you ... a Ninja Turtle?
Elle Casey
#73. Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
Alex Haley
#74. Quit trying to talk yourself out of
going," Della said.
"How do you know that's what I'm
doing?"
"Because I can see it on your face. And
because you couldn't walk any slower if
you were a turtle on crutches.
C.C. Hunter
#75. Human beings can learn valuable lessons in conservation of necessary personal resources for accomplishing the fundamental tenants of life by observing a judiciously paced turtle determinedly and stealthily traversing the world.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#76. A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
Ambrose Bierce
#77. Being on a successful show is kind of like being a sea turtle. Every year, sea turtles lay hundreds and hundreds of eggs, but only a few manage to survive and mature. It's the same with TV pilots. There are so many great ideas, but for whatever reason only the lucky ones get picked up.
Keiko Agena
#78. Sometimes he reminded me of a turtle hiding inside its shell, in there thinking about things and not ever sticking his head out into the world.
Kate DiCamillo
#79. Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.
Brigitte Bardot
#80. 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
#81. 'The Green Turtle' was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.
Gene Luen Yang
#82. I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].
Davy Crockett
#83. All the world's a stage, Timmy Quinn, but it's not the only one ...
The Turtle Boy (The Timmy Quinn Series (Book One)
Kealan Patrick Burke
#84. Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!
Edgar Allan Poe
#85. I wonder what the most intelligent thing ever said was that started with the word 'dude.' 'Dude, these are isotopes.' 'Dude, we removed your kidney. You're gonna be fine.' 'Dude, I am so stoked to win this Nobel Prize. I just wanna thank Kevin, and Turtle, and all my homies.'
Demetri Martin
#86. The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.
Rollo May
#87. The otter's picnic ground is a large rock where we always find empty turtle shells. It is rather sad, but I can't help thinking how conveniently packaged a turtle is to an otter. Like a kind of Big Mac in a crushproof box.
Louise Erdrich
#88. Move at a snail's pace or walk with the speed of a turtle or run like a rabbit! Just move; forget about the speed and just move ahead!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. The Turtle, son. I made the universe, but please don't blame me for it; I had a bellyache. Help me! Please help me! - I take no stand in these
Stephen King
#93. Grace said,"Dr. Wexler was called away on an emergency operation."
"An emergency Packers game in Green Bay," Turtle confided to Flora Baumbach.
Ellen Raskin
#94. You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
Paul Giamatti
#95. My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.
Ruth Westheimer
#96. We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!
Frank Reynolds
#97. 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
#99. I swoon into a standing eight count. Goddamn, I actually feel my consciousness want to detach and hide like a turtle retreating into a hopelessly soft shell that won't save anyone.
Paul Tremblay
#100. Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
Joel Hodgson
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