A Quote by Terry Tempest Williams

Tortoise steps, slow steps, four steps like a tank with a tail dragging in the sand. Tortoise steps, land based, land locked, dusty like the desert tortoise herself, fenced in, a prisoner on her own reservation -- teaching us the slow art of revolutionary patience.

Terry Tempest Williams

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Terry Tempest Williams
American - Author
Born: September 8, 1955

So Zeno is most famous for his tortoise paradox. Let us imagine that you are in a race with a tortoise. The tortoise has a ten-yard head start. In the time it takes you to run that ten yards, the tortoise has moved one yard. And then in the time it takes you to make up that distance, the tortoise goes a bit farther, and so on forever. You are faster than the tortoise but you can never catch him; you can only decrease his lead.

John Green

I eat like a tortoise eats, if you've ever seen a tortoise eating. Like some prehistoric swamp thing.

R. J. Palacio

Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.

Eduardo Galeano

I suppose without curiosity a man would be a tortoise. Very comfortable life, a tortoise has.

Agatha Christie

The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.

Gale Norton

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

The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.

Lewis Carroll

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps.

Ninette de Valois

Life is singing also in the sand crunching under the slow and heavy steps of the guards, when we know how to listen to it.

Rosa Luxemburg

When you take dancing lessons, you learn steps and you learn steps and you learn steps. It can go on for a long time. And then one day, you just learn to dance, and it is so different.

Bill Austin

The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.

Suzanne Farrell

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

Natalia Makarova

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

I`m the tortoise in the race, but I`m a joyful tortoise.

Jeb Bush

Slow and steady wins the race. 'The hare and the tortoise

Robert Lloyd

One can remain more sure-footed by taking small steps, but perhaps achieve greater speed by taking bigger steps. Of course, one also runs the risk of setting out in a completely erroneous direction. Surely the important thing isn't the length of our steps, but that the objective is clear.

Angela Merkel

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