Turtles Quotes - Page 3

• 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, Wife

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

  Eddie Campbell

  Looks

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• 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, Invention, Ends

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  "Interview: Garry Shandling (Over The Hedge)". Interview with Devin Faraci, www.chud.com. May 19, 2006.

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

  Joel Hodgson

  Brother, Names, Pet

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• I have always brought home stray animals - everything from squirrels to wild rabbits to foxes and turtles.

  Amy Weber

  Home, Animal, Squirrels

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• Look, I admit you seem like a decent person. For all I know you stop and move turtles out of the road whenever you see one to keep someone from running it over. But this turtle is tired of having its guts spattered on the pavement while other people drive right over him. I just want to scrape myself up and hide in the woods, okay? (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Running, Moving, Tired

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.64, St. Martin's Paperbacks

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• Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.

  Paul of the Cross

  Spring, Flower, Exercise

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

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Tortoises

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• 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, Forever

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Heart, Cutting, Men

  "The Hemingway Collection".

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• 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

  Gold, May, Remember

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• I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon.

  Janet Fitch

  Sea, Floating, Horizon

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• 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

  Moon, Night, Air

  Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”

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• And how many hours a day did you do lessons?' said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. Ten hours the first day,' said the Mock Turtle: 'nine the next, and so on.' What a curious plan!' exclaimed Alice. That's the reason they're called lessons,' the Gryphon remarked: 'because they lessen from day to day.

  Lewis Carroll

  Lessons, Nine, Next

  'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' (1865) ch. 9

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• When this is over...we will got to the rainforest, or a beach as white as bone. We will eat grapes from the vine, we will swim with sea turtles, we will walk miles on cobblestone streets. We will laugh and talk and confess. We will.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beach, Sea, White

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• I am a huge animal lover. Growing up, my mother and I rescued countless animals - dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, even a turtle. I have been accused of caring more about animals than I do about people.

  Amanda Schull

  Mother, Dog, Growing Up

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing.

  Sylvia Earle

  Sharks, Years, Whales

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• The creatures of the sea hold special mystery, and they are among the most exciting, graceful, and beautiful on Earth. Just consider the living riot of a coral reef, the beauty of an albatross, the awesome power of a giant turtle, the grace of a dolphin. Now multiply that by the millions of creatures in the sea. Wow!

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Sea, Grace

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• Turtles are greater than baby nephews, because it's ok to drop a turtle.

  Demetri Martin

  Baby, Nephew, Greater

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• You can't get the taste of winning in a running competition with a turtle!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Running, Winning, Competition

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• 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, Trying

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• My spirit animal... probably like a turtle, because I have no concept of time.

  Rita Ora

  Animal, Spirit, Concept Of Time

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• In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously furnished homes: cloud forests, rain forests, ice pack, boreal forests, coral reefs, forests of deciduous trees, conifer and palm.

  Eban Goodstein

  Rain, Home, Butterfly

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• Turtles hate heights. They don't even like being a few feet off the ground. It's the main reason they have resisted evolution for so long-fear of heights. Turtle thinking goes thus: Sure, first our scales turn into feathers and the next thing you know we're flying and chirping and perching on trees. We've seen it happen. Thanks, but we're staying right here in the mud where we belong. You're not going to see us flying full-tilt boogie into a sliding glass door.

  Christopher Moore

  Hate, Thinking, Doors

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