Top 158 Turtle Quotes & Sayings

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

I had a turtle that I called Kalidas.

'Changes in Latitudes' began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.

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

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

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

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

Wow. Who would want a fish for a pet when they could have a turtle?!

Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

I want to meet the man who saw a turtle and said, "People will LOVE the ninja version of that."

'Turtle' is one of our favorite ballad songs that we've written. It is very quiet but also so bright.

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.

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

Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.

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

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtle's, and of a rabbit, rabbit's. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

I would honestly say I'm in the turtle's race. My journey is a marathon.

The federal government is like a handicapped turtle trying to crawl around and keep up with the rabbit, which is technology.

Soups challenge us, because an enticing flavorful stew can be as different from the thin watery beverage sometimes erroneously called soup as a genuine green turtle is from the mock turtle.

If Mother and Mameha couldn't come to an agreement, I would remain a maid all my life just as surely as a turtle remains a turtle

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.

Am I not turtley enough for the Turtle Club? Turtle! Turtle!

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

God ultimately raises up leaders for one primary reason: His glory. He shows His power in our weakness. He demonstrates His wisdom in our folly. We are all like a turtle on a fence post. If you walk by a fence post and see a turtle on top of it, then you know someone came by and put it there. In the same way, God gives leadership according to His good pleasure.

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.

The turtle couldn't help us.

A turtle does come in it's own bowl

Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

I got a few speeding tickets when I was young, but I'm a little more like the turtle than the hare.

No turtle can be a revolutionist, because revolution requires high speed!

Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.

Just like a turtle, we only make progress if we stick our neck out.

My favorite Christmas gift as a child was - I had a ninja turtle skateboard.

I'm like an old turtle these days. I don't run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I'll be where I'm supposed to be.

I pledge allegiance to the soil of Turtle Island, and to the beings who thereon dwell one ecosystem in diversity under the sun With joyful interpenetratio n for all.

Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.

There is an Indian story -- at least I heard it as an Indian story -- about an Englishman who, having been told that the world rested on a platform which rested on the back of an elephant which rested in turn on the back of a turtle, asked (perhaps he was an ethnographer; it is the way they behave), what did the turtle rest on? Another turtle. And that turtle? 'Ah, Sahib, after that it is turtles all the way down

My favorite animal is the turtle. The reason is that in order for the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out.

The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something.

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

"Well, I never heard it before," said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense."

Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time tells the story of a cosmologist whose speech is interrupted by a little old lady who informs him that the universe rests on the back of a turtle. Ah, yes, madame, the scientist replies, but what does the turtle rest on? The old lady shoots back: You can't trick me, young man. It's nothing but turtles, turtles, turtles, all the way down.

The moment you introduce the element of IT, which is an interdimensional evil entity, the presence of the turtle comes with it, as a counterbalance.

We don't even know if we're in this room. We could be in a turtle's dream in outer space.

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

We could all be in a turtle's dream, in outer space!

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

On its 2015 list, the Fish and Wildlife Service included the 'ea, or hawksbill turtle, as well as the green turtle, Ridley sea turtle, leatherback turtle and loggerhead turtle. Four mammals are considered endangered: the Hawaiian hoary bat; the kohola, or humpback whale; the sperm whale; and the endemic Hawaiian monk seal.

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.

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

Turtle makes all men equal.

It's okay to play turtle for a while, as long as you don't get too fond of your shell.