Turtles Quotes - Page 5

• The sign said 'The Green Turtle, Chelonia myadas, is the source of turtle soup....' I am the source of William G. soup if it comes to that. Everyone is the source of his or her kind of soup. In a town as big as London, that's a lot of soup walking around.

  Russell Hoban

  Soup, Green, London

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• 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, Tortoises, Restaurants

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• To separate from my culture (as from my family) I had to feel competent enough on the outside and secure enough inside to live life on my own. Yet in leaving home I did not lose touch with my origins because lo mexicano is in my system. I am a turtle, wherever I go I carry 'home' on my back.

  Gloria E. Anzaldúa

  Live Life, Home, Roots

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• 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, West Indies, Sea

  Alice Morse Earle (2016). “Stage-coach and Tavern Days”, p.67, Library of Alexandria

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• I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling the situation. I found that myself in the Galapagos. For the first time in my life I was around very exotic animals, colorful, beautiful, and immediately present, all around. Birds, turtles, iguanas, seals. I was being seduced by their exoticism, I was taking pictures.The pictures weren't well lit, there was no moment in play, there was no depth to the pictures. I was just gawking with my camera at something I'd never seen before.

  Sam Abell

  Beautiful, Animal, Play

  Source: dougplummer.blogs.com

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

  George Hearst

  Mistake, Looks, Letters

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• I would go to the beach in my turtle neck, all bundle up. I would read my book and kind of scowl, but I hadn't seen the most beautiful beaches in the world. We had a beach (in Canada) where you couldn't even go swimming. But once I travelled and saw more beautiful areas, my relationship to the planet expanded I started connect to it more and be more aware.

  Rachel McAdams

  Beautiful, Beach, Book

  Source: thefancarpet.com

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• Turtle makes all men equal.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Men, Appetite, Equal

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4011, Delphi Classics

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• 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, Ohio, Tree

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• 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, Cartoon, Mutants

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• 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, Mad

  "The Annotated Alice". Book by Martin Gardner (Introduction), 1960.

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• Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

  Doris Lilly

  Men, Looks, Turtlenecks

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• 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

  Play, Names, Fans

  "The Tomorrow People: Robbie Amell On Life With Superpowers". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. October 8, 2013.

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• Maybe. Although I doubt most Shadowhunters get a tattoo of Donatello from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on their left shoulder.

  Cassandra Clare

  Tattoo, Teenage, Doubt

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.301, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.' It was such a big part of my childhood.

  Megan Fox

  Teenage, Childhood, Mutants

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• I wanna put stickers on turtles... I don't know why.

  Demetri Martin

  Sticker, Knows

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• 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, Who I Am

  "Interview with Greg Cipes, TV's Michelangelo". Interview with David Burszan, www.denofgeek.com. November 4, 2013.

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• One of the first things was I made Arlo [the Apatosaurus] a younger character. And then when I was that age (around 11 or 12), what was I like? Sweat pants, turtle-neck kid; didn't know anything about fashion or style, the culture of the world. I was very sheltered.

  Peter Sohn

  Fashion, Character, Kids

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Video games don't make people go nuts. I played Super Mario forever. Not once hopping on a turtle or smash my head through a brick ceiling.

  Dane Cook

  Nuts, Games, People

  Twitter post from Aug 29, 2013

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• I think the law as it is today probably does prohibit an off-reservation casino, but there is uniqueness to Turtle Mountain and there is uniqueness to the state, and these things need to be looked at.

  Bill Johnson

  Thinking, Law, Mountain

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• I remember reading 'The Grapes of Wrath' in high school in 1983. My family had immigrated to the U.S. three years before, and I had spent the better part of the first two years learning English. John Steinbeck's book was the first book I read in English where I had an 'Aha!' moment, namely in the famed turtle chapter.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Book, Reading, School

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• I eat like a kid. I like Chief Boyardee. Their Ravioli, but they have some stuff I've never seen in the real Italian food world. You ever been in a nice Italian restaurant? Hi how are you? Ummm id like to start with a nice bottle of Chanti and a couple of Caesar Salads and umm I'm going to have the Beef a'ronni. And some Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the lady.

  Brian Regan

  Couple, Teenage, Nice

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• Reform Judaism is like mock turtle soup-turtle soup without the turtle

  Heinrich Heine

  Soup, Reform, Judaism

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• The idea of the state is, or should be, a very limited, prescribed idea. The state looks after the defense of the realm, and other matters - raising revenue to pay for things which are for all of us, and so on. That idea has turned turtle now. The state isn't any longer perceived as an institution which exists to serve us.

  Tom Stoppard

  Ideas, Defense, Looks

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• Nature is a wary wily long-breathed old Witch, tough-lived as a Turtle and divisible as the Polyp, repullulative in a thousand Snips and Cuttings, integra et in toto! She is sure to get the better of Lady MIND in the long run, and to take her revenge too transforms our To Day into a Canvass dead-colored to receive the dull featureless Portait of Yesterday.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Running, Revenge, Cutting

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Nicholas Halmi (2002). “Opus Maximum”, p.127, Princeton University Press

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