Tortoises Quotes

Tortoises Quote of the day

We live in a culture full of hares; but the tortoise always wins.

Tortoises can tell you more about the road than hares.

He was, she reflected, almost rudely like a tortoise; and she was glad her friend kept none as pets or they might have suspected mockery.

One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.

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.

I'm the tortoise in the race, but I'm a joyful tortoise.

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

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.

You do not know me,’ said Tortoise. ‘I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

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

The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.

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.

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

I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

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

Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.

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

When I first heard bands like Tortoise, it seemed to come off the back of that world, like let's make a record with three vibraphones and release it on a seven-inch with black-and-white artwork.

The predicament of a person in a restaurant who is unable to determine his or her designated restroom (e.g., turtles and tortoises).

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

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.

It was a race between the tortoise and the hare, but the tortoise had just enough head start, and he had the magus to drag him along.

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

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.

In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.

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