Snail Quotes

• Even a snail will eventually reach its destination.

  Gail Tsukiyama

  Patience, Destination

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• However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Distance, Moving, Tired

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• For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Pace, Trekking, Strolling

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Positive, Perseverance, Life Changing

  "The Salt-cellars : Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon" by Charles Spurgeon, (p. 89), 1889.

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• We are like snails, each stuck to his own leaf.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophical, Leafs, Stuck

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• We should learn from the snail: it has devised a home that is both exquisite and functional.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Home, Should, Exquisite

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• Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Selfish, Long, People

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.24, Penguin Books India

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• The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the same mathematically as the spirals in our DNA. It's the same ratio that you'll find in very basic music that transcends cultures all over the world.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Dna, Culture, Shells

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• Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.

  George Carlin

  Whales, Tree, Bees

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• If the road is beautiful, walk the road slowly; be a turtle, be a snail and even better than this: Stop walking; live the road fully!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Beautiful, Turtles, Walks

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• Opportunity comes like a snail, and once it has passed you it changes into a fleet rabbit and is gone.

  Arthur Brisbane

  Change, Opportunity, Rabbits

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• I am this fiery snail crawling home.

  Charles Bukowski

  Home, Crawling, Fiery

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• Make up your mind, Snail! You are half inside your house, And halfway out!

  Richard Wright

  House, Mind, Half

  Richard Wright (1997). “Richard Wright Reader”

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• In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

  Iris Murdoch

  Philosophy, Moving, Pace

  Iris Murdoch (1999). “Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature”, p.500, Penguin

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• In the blur of the photograph, time leaves its gleaming, snail-like track.

  Wright Morris

  Track, Photograph, Blur

  Wright Morris (1989). “Time pieces: photographs, writing, and memory”

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• We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves.

  Nhat Hanh

  Beautiful, Respect, Nature

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a lot to be said for taking your home with you wherever you go.

  Susan Cain

  Integrity, Home, Animal

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, January 24, 2012.

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• 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

  Running, Moving, Turtles

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• O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly!

  Kobayashi Issa

  Buddhist, Struggle, Haiku

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• I can perform the life of the snail and be moving.

  Mary Woronov

  Moving, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

  Francis Bacon

  Leaving, Looks, Slime

  "The human zoo" by Gordon Burn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• Didn't have Nintendo, we just poured salt on snails.

  Al Yankovic

  Honesty, Nintendo, Salt

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• Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.

  Doug Larson

  Funny, Courage, Humorous

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• That's what love is made of, snakes, snails, and puppy dog tails, sugar, spice, and everything nice.

  Smokey Robinson

  Dog, Nice, Love Is

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• It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?

  Epictetus

  Men, Shells, Unlikely

  "Discourses". Book by Epictetus. Book I, Chapter 20,

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