Quotes and Sayings About Turtles
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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 -
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 -
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
-- Alex Haley -
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 -
Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.
-- Anna Olson -
Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a single-minded resistance to any distraction from the central aim of keeping watch over the Tortuguero nesting colony and a determination to make it the most thoroughly studied sea turtle population in the world.
-- Archie Carr -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
-- Bruce Feiler -
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 -
Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
-- Charles Ghigna -
Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they stick their neck out, but investors face risk no matter what they do..
-- Charles Jaffe -
Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult things like drive cars, Jet-Ski, and lip-synch. I’m in awe of their little limbs, their large craniums, and their medicine-ball asses. I love the little baby steps they take while shifting their weight from side to side, and the fact that when you knock one over accidentally, he flails like a turtle on its back that can’t get up right away.
-- Chelsea Handler -
Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!
-- Christopher Paul Curtis -
There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down
-- Clifford Geertz -
Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!
-- Dana Carvey -
We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.
-- Danny DeVito -
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 -
I told her, Don't touch me that way. Don't come at me with that sour-cream smile. Come at me as if I were worth your life - the life we make together. Take me like a turtle whose shell must be cracked, whose heart is ice, who needs your heat. Love me like a warrior, sweat up to your earlobes and all your hope between your teeth. Love me so I know I am at least as important as anything you have ever wanted.
-- Dorothy Allison -
And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
-- Dr. Seuss -
And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
-- Eddie Campbell -
It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.
-- Eileen Wilks -
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 -
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 -
Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.
-- Etgar Keret -
We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!
-- Frank Reynolds -
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 -
If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
-- George Carlin
