Turtles famous quotes

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

#Cute #Kissing #Turtles

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

#Peace #Heart #Turtles

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
-- Alex Haley

#Funny #Animal #Turtles

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

#Home #Turtles #Sea

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.
-- Anna Olson

#Turtles #Progress #Needs

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

#Determination #Marine #Turtles

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

#Writing #Marine #Turtles

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

#Turtles #Doe #Bud

Turtle makes all men equal.
-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Men #Turtles #Appetite

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

#Turtles #House #Gone

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.
-- Bruce Feiler

#Turtles #World #Walks

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

#Turtles #Sea #Civilization

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
-- Charles Ghigna

#Fear #Moving #Turtles

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

#Business #Moving #Turtles

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

#Baby #Medicine #Turtles

Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!
-- Christopher Paul Curtis

#Turtles #Pet #Want

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

#Turtles #Elephants #Stories

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!
-- Dana Carvey

#Turtles #Clubs #Enough

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.
-- Danny DeVito

#Dream #Turtles #Space

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

#Horse #Turtles #Ohio

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

#Heart #Warrior #Turtles

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
-- Dr. Seuss

#Turtles #Should #Creatures

And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.
-- Eddie Campbell

#Turtles #Looks

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.
-- Eileen Wilks

#Turtles #Play #Long

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

#Turtles #Games #Grace

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

#Turtles #Gold #May

Rabbits are played. Nowadays it's all about the turtles. Tell them it's a ninja, they'll freak.
-- Etgar Keret

#Turtles #Rabbits #Ninja

We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!
-- Frank Reynolds

#Dream #Turtles #Space

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

#Islands #Turtles #Ecosystems

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?
-- George Carlin

#Turtles #Naked #Shells

You will not mistake the newspaperman - looks like a big turtle - published a letter meant to embarrass me.
-- George Hearst

#Mistake #Turtles #Looks

What did turtles evolve from? Really, I want to know. And for God’s sake, don’t say lizards, because turtles are nothing like lizards. They could not be more different.
-- Gwen Stefani

#Turtles #Different #Lizards

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?
-- Harper Lee

#Hurt #Stupid #Turtles

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
-- Harvey Mackay

#Turtles #Sticks #Necks

I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in Metal Gear Solid 3. But you cannot eat turtles.
-- Hideo Kojima

#Turtles #Mushrooms #Gears

As ever, the original inhabitants of Turtle Island are entirely overlooked. Mysteriously, the only time indigenous people are guaranteed a mainstream Amerikkan mention is on Thanksgiving. Again, to contextualize, this would be be kinda like someone busting into your house and robbing you blind, then sending you postcards once a year to remind you how much they are enjoying all of your stuff, and getting annoyed with you if you don't respond with appreciation for their thoughtfulness.
-- Inga Muscio

#Appreciation #Turtles #Years

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.
-- James Bryant Conant

#Turtles #Progress #Sticks

Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels. The humans? The planet does not need humans.
-- James Lee

#Squirrels #Turtles #Sharks

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.
-- Jim Breithaupt

#Technology #Government #Turtles

Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar.
-- Joel Hodgson

#Brother #Turtles #Names

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

#Children #Men #Turtles

The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is one of the tank's most popular animals, along with sharks, rays and more than 100 other species. The Aquarium Medical Center is a working animal hospital exhibit that allows visitors to observe veterinarians examining and treating sea creatures.
-- John Grant

#Ocean #Animal #Turtles

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."
-- Jonah Hill

#Men #Turtles #People

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

#Night #Turtles #Invention

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

#Turtles #Sound #Swallowing

Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.
-- Lee Trevino

#Funny #Golf #Turtles

Turtles are very stable and have been around forever. But they have problems adapting. When humans came along, turtles came under serious threat. Biodiversity is good, and I think it is good in technology as well.
-- Linus Torvalds

#Technology #Thinking #Turtles

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.
-- Lou Gerstner

#Perseverance #Moving #Turtles

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

#Food #Turtles #Challenges

You want to talk? Fine. Talk. Tell me something you've never told anybody else.' I thought for a moment. 'Turtles have the second-largest brains of any animal on the planet.' It took Isabel only a second to process this. 'No, they don't.' 'I know that's why I've never told anybody that before.
-- Maggie Stiefvater

#Animal #Turtles #Brain

The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity.
-- Martin Gardner

#Book #Heart #Turtles

But now all the natural secrets have been exposed, and it is likely that the turtles have been sold to laboratory scientists who want to remove their shells so that they can wire electrodes to the turtles' skin in order to monitor their increasing terror at the loss of their shells.
-- Mary Gaitskill

#Loss #Order #Turtles

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.
-- Matt Chandler

#Turtles #Giving #Leader

I constantly watch 'The Simpsons' and an English cartoon called 'The Raccoons' and 'Gummi Bears.' I was obsessed with ninja films, and the 'Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles,' I used to love that as well.
-- Matt Smith

#Teenage #Turtles #Cartoon

A turtle does come in it's own bowl
-- Mike Dirnt

#Turtles #Doe

Tragedy isn't an easy thing to kill. It takes more than a turtle. Tragedy must be destroyed by someone willing to be swallowed by it, willing to be broken, torn out of the flesh, but able to return to it. Someone must be able to shatter the tragic from within and exit into comedy, able to rip a hole so wide that a train of souls, a parade, could follow after, banging drums and throwing candy as they strolled into the sun.
-- N.D. Wilson

#Rip #Turtles #Broken

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.
-- Natalie Gulbis

#Beautiful #Ocean #Turtles

Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die
-- Nikolai Gogol

#Lying #Two #Turtles

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.
-- Paul Giamatti

#Turtles #Describe Me

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

#Humorous #Turtles #Tortoises

Turtles remind us that the way to heaven is through the earth. In Mother Earth is all that we need. She will care for us, protect us, and nurture us, as long as we do the same for her. For that to happen, we must slow down and heighten our sensibilities. We must see the connection to all things. Just as the turtle cannot separate itself from its shell, neither can we separate ourselves from what we do to the Earth.
-- Ted Andrews

#Mother #Turtles #Long

Now is not the time to shrink from the challenge of saving our only home in the universe. Now is not the time to pull into ourselves, retreating into either survivalist or escapist mode. To the contrary, this is the time for titans, not turtles. Now is the time to open our arms, expand our horizons, and dream big. Big problems require big solutions.
-- Van Jones

#Dream #Home #Turtles

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.
-- Doris Lilly

#Men #Turtles #Looks

The Ninja Turtles made me who I am today in a big way. It was my favorite show as a kid. It got me into meditation, martial arts, speed boarding, and generally like the positive person that I am today is because of the Turtles.
-- Greg Cipes

#Art #Kids #Turtles

Ninja Turtles taught me how to meditate. They got me into martial arts. They helped make me who I am today.
-- Greg Cipes

#Art #Turtles #Who I Am

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

#Art #Halloween #Turtles

I grew up watching Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Batman. You name it, I was a huge fan. And that's what I used to play with my friends. We would have the masks and the swords and pretend we had super powers.
-- Robbie Amell

#Turtles #Play #Names

In truth I suspect that merely slowing down is not a very satisfying answer. What I need has less to do with my pace of life than my peace of life. At any speed, I crave a deep and lasting inner peace. And if it's solace I'm after, I don't need to pace myself like a turtle, change jobs or set up house on a quiet island. It is usually frenetic living, not high energy, that robs my peace of mind.
-- Steve Goodier

#Jobs #Islands #Turtles

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

#Turtles #Car #Used

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.
-- Rollo May

#Inspirational #Turtles #Progress

My favorite superheroes when I was younger were the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and they still are. Simply because they rule and you've got 4 different personalities to choose from depending on your mood...And they're huge human-turtles!!
-- Jason Reeves

#Teenage #Turtles #Personality