Tortoise Quotes
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Tortoise Quotes & Sayings
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Since the well-known victory over the hare by the tortoise, the descendants of the tortoise think themselves miracles of speed.
— Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
Turd-eating son of a flying tortoise
— Diana Gabaldon
Good habits are the basic tools that will determine whether you are a tortoiseor hare in life! — Lucas Remmerswaal
Come, thou tortoise!
— William Shakespeare
In there?'She nodded.
'You want us to go into the tortoise?'
Another nod.
'It's alive.'
Another nod. — Ilona Andrews
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.
— Megan Whalen Turner
The Italians say it is not necessary to be a stag; but we ought not to be a tortoise.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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.
— Stella Gibbons
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[My kitten] is dressed in a tortoise-shell suit, and I know you will delight in her.
— William Cowper
What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
— Stephen Hawking
You must really want to win with all of your heart! Plan your race; do not ever get side tracked. Focus on your goal - "the finishing line"!
— Lucas Remmerswaal
I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.
— Sappho
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
— Jonathan Carroll
Democrats are like a big tortoise that's on its back and can't get up; you can't make jokes about that.
— Lewis Black
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy.
— Terry Pratchett
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.
— Maureen Lipman
One day a tortoise will learn how to fly.
— Terry Pratchett
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
— Henry David Thoreau
Stiff shoulders humped over the writing-table, and the ache of a heart slow to move. A tortoise heart.
— J.M. Coetzee
One is also reminded of how, in art, the tortoise so often overtakes the hare ...
— Clement Greenberg
We called him Tortoise because he taught us.
— Lewis Carroll
Southampton Row, however, is chiefly remarkable nowadays for the fact that you will always find a man there trying to sell a tortoise to a tailor.
— Virginia Woolf
I'm a rat,' Robert said. 'I'm not going into a reptile's mouth.'Oh boy. Fine time to develop phobias — Ilona Andrews
The tortoise moves very slowly, it moves towards whatever the goal is, to keep a democratic capitalistic society functioning.
— Lewis Black
You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look.
— Terry Pratchett
You'll find a man can live without his money as merrily as a tortoise without its head, or a wasp without its body." '"But
— Anne Bronte
Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.
— Ilona Andrews
I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.
— R.J. Palacio
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.
— Northrop Frye
The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Galapagos tortoise," she said. "I'm one hundred and seven years old." "Huh. And you don't look a day over a hundred and five," I said.
— James Patterson
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.
— Chinua Achebe
Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise
— Robert Lloyd
